Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1883-12-08
SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY.

Two German investigators find tha
the use OF suEflower seed cake a.
food for COWS reduces the total pro
duction of milk.
Arrangements have been completed
for all international exhibition ut Ed
inburgh in 1884, to include everything
pertaining to forestry.
In "a discussion before the London
Pathological Society, DR.. Wilks stated
that in some cases Of rupture Of the
ilcart by wounds life has continued
!oi twe.ty-fCur hours.
Mons. Laugicr reports favorably o!
the experiments made during the last
three years with sulpl.uret of carbon
and sulpliocarbonate of potassium as
lcs.royers Of grape phylloxera.
A paper by Geriandt states that the
exact date of the discovery of the all
pump cannot be given, as all that
can lie established with certainty in
regard to the time is that it was prior
10 the middle Of August, 1862.
1t has been found by X. Koch and
Z. Miguel that the superficial layers
If the soil are exceedingly rich in
microscopic organisms, or bacilli.
Miguel considers that these bacilli
lay All important part in the decom-
position Of organic matter aud in the
formation of assimilable plant food.
SO great has been the demand for
the services Of the specialist expert
nIcntalIy employed by the Swedish
government during the last few years
o aid farmers in the destruction OF
Insects, etc, injurious 10 crops, that
he office of government entomolo-
gist is 10 lie continued permanent .
Different woods hold different guam
titles OF water. According TO Scheub-
.vr and Hartig, freshly cut h"rubeam
contains 1916 per cant vi water; will
i)w rs per ccnt: ash 2e.7 per cent !;
,irch, 30.S per cent; oak, 34.7 per cent
pine 81 per cen, rcd beech, 1871 per
cent; elm, 44.5 per cent; larch, 1876
per cent; aud white poplar, 500 pel
cent.
Being called upon 10 analyHe some
specimens pf wine from vineyard
near Mines, France, Mons. Barthe-
iemy, Professor of the Faculty Oh
sciences at Toulouse, found them Ia
contain a rather large proportion oi
arsenic, Which proved to have heelr
derived from the Impure sulphuric
acid with which the wine-casks hat
been cleansed.
A remarkable phenomenon was
lately observed at Harrington, Sweden.
During a perfectly calm evening a
violent whirlwind arose from the
southeast, when a brilliant meteor
suddenly appeared in the zenith,
travelled Ia the northwest and burst
near the horizon. AS the meteor dis
appeared the wind quickly ceased the
whole phenomenon lasting only
about sixty seconds.
A Norwegian speculator a short
time ago conceived the idea that
whales flesh, of which immense
quantities are wasted, might be pre-
served and utilized as food. He has
accordingly made experiments which
he thinks prove that the preserved
meat may he cooked in various ways
20 form a delicious and Wholesome
article of diet, the cost being much
less than that of canned beef. Whales
flesh is eaten every fishing-season by
the crews of whaling vessels.
While on the the ice of Greenland
last summer, Baron Nodenskjold's
party experienced NOT only snow
blindness, with which Attic travellers
are so familiar, but also h painful
blistering of the skin of the face, pro-
duced by the sunshine in the dry,
transparent and thin air. The Bills
tiers caused the skin of the nose, ears
and cheeks to peel offin large patches.
This was repeated several times dur
ing the journey of the party, and the
pain was increased by the effect of
the cold morning air on the newly
formed skin, The sun has no similar
effect in the tropics.
When ooal-gas escapes from pipes
in house its presence in the air is
quickly detected by its peculiar odor,
but when the leak is underground
and the gas filters into easements and
cellars through the soil all odor MAJ
thus become dangerously charged
with this product while the fact re-
mains unsupported by the inmates O:
dwellings. Su0h cases have occurre.!,
and Prof. Pettenkofer, in recen.
lecture at Berlin, expressed
the belief that they may be muc,.
more frequent than is generally sup
posed. Coai-gas owes it's poisonou
property ia oar;,onic oxide, which
forms ten per cent of its composition
CRUDE has shown that air contain,ng
five parts Of carbonic oxide in 1O,uOO
may be breathed for days without in
jury to health, while "a proportion 0.
seven Or eight parts in 10000 causes
discomfort, Il proportion
of twenty parts In 10000 produces diff
ficulty of breathing, weakness and UNI
certainty of gait; and twice that pro-
norton leads Ia standardization f,,lI,rad