Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-09-01
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In Belgium the Government is author
lied by royal decree to work or let by
concession all the telephone lines IN the
Kingdom.
Prince Leopold, of Blvaris, who has done
come hard work in the domain of compare
tive anatomy, is about to publish memoir
on the tongue, which will command some
attention.
On the railroads of England and Wales
there were in 1881 about 3, 263 inhabitants
for every locomotive, as against 9, COZ in
1871, and there we're OF inhabitants for
every passenger car, as compared with
l, 232 in 1861
a large number of ornaments and imple-
ments of jade, with some of the unwrought
stone, has bsen received by the Smithsonian
Institution from Louisiana, and it is proba-
BILE the ultimate source of the mineral will
soon be discovered.
From the decomposing masses of animal
flesh Prof. Briggs of Berlin, has isolated a
very violent poison which analysis proved
70 be a hydrochloric salt of new base,
and which did not resemble any other
known combination.
A Chinese imperial decree has been issued
ordering that the telegraphic lines between
Woonsung and Shanghai, and between
Annoy and Haibon, are to be constructed
by the Chinese themselves and not by Eu.
ropeans or other foreigners.
A telegraphic cable to be laid between
Cadiz and the Canary islands is row in pro-
cess of manufacture by an English firm.
The Spanish Government has ordered the
work which is expected to be finished this
autumn. The length of the cable is about
1000 miles,
It is very likely that permanent meteor
illogical station will soon be established on
the top of Ben Nevis, Iverness-shire, Scot
land. It will have Geographic connection
with another station az the foot of the
mountain. The total cost is estimated at
about $4,000.
Charles A. Cameron, in a paper on the
poisonous properties of boracic acid men
lions the fact that COW died within few
hours after dose of borax which had been
administered to her in mistake for glauber
salts. Large doses of boraoic acid cause
paralysis OF the nervous and muscular sys-
telp in dogs.
hn improved biohromate of potash bat
NJ. Luig Ponci uses a liquid OF this
position One kilogramme of bichro,
lnsrushed aad dissolved in four liters
water, to which two liters of
+. ecid are added. No forma-
b ystais tdkes place in the battery
wi5ECnis solution.
Asia, says Il. c. Keene, is the home of
the religion, language and literature Of Eu-
rope. Society there has come down even
to present times in India, especially in un.
broken continuity. Among all TIE modif'
cations old elements remain. Brahman,
Buddhist, Greek, Arab, Mongol Portu-
guese and French have all in turn scratched,
so to speak, the surface of the wonderful
peninsula Of India; but with tins excep-
ton of the Brahmans and the Buddhists
little remains Of the effects of their sue
cessive inroads.
BY microscopic examination OF the cross
section of q single human hair, Prof. h. b.
Tylor states. the race of the individual to
whom it belongs can be determined. Pru'
uer's method shows whether it Is circular,
oval or reniform. Moseley has explained
how the folcule curvature may be esti-
mated by the average diameter OF the
ourls. Sorby's plan gives the coloring
matter. DR.. w. Muller, of the Nogara
expedition, has published a classification Of
man, primarily arranged according to the
kind of hair, with secondary division &C
oording to language.