Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1884-11-07
SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY.

ted Along the Same Wire at the
Same Tlme-variatiOn In Children's
weight-Etc.
Compiled for the woop RIVER T,xks]
Mons. Andres contends that hail is
produced during ascending whirl.
winds.
An imperial decree forbids the CIR.
culatirg libraries to issue the works of
Darwin, Agassiz, Huxley, Lubbock,
Adam Smith, Lewes and Spencer to
Russian readers.
A curious phenomenon observed by
Mons. Colladon is that halstones, two
or three seconds after falling, some.
times spring into the air again, to a
hight of ten or twelve inches, as if
struck upward by the earth.
A student of the colors of flowers,
Mons. Schnetzler, contends that only
one coloring substance exists in plants,
and that the various colors of flowers
are due simply to the notifications
made in this substance by the acids
or alkalies contained in the plants
the mselves.
Sir Joseph Fayner considers it most
remarkable that a poisonous snake
cannot poison one Of its species, and
only slightly any venomous snake, al.
thought quickly kills harmless snakes.
A vigorous cobra can kill several dogs
or from dozen to twenty fowls before
its bite becomes impotent; and then
the rapid re.secretion of virus soon
makes it as dangerous ss ever.
Snakes are never found in the island
of Iona, off the west coast OF Scotland,
although they exist in the island OF
Null, only three-quarters of mile
distant. The Duke of Argyll reports
that during the hot weather of las,
August an adder succeeded in swim
ming across the dangerous channel to
Iona, and was about to land, when il
was seen and killed.
Prof. Moselcy, OF the famous Chal.
lenger expedition around the world
has discovered eyes in the shells o.
chitonid;e, no less than 1000 being
contained in the shell of single ami
nal. AS the shell grows larger new
eyes are formed. No other molluscs
have any sense-organs in their shells
but the chitonide, in addition to eyes
have elaborate organs of touch per
meating their shells.
Van Rysselberghe, in Belgium, ha
succeeded in transmitting telephone
and teleeraphic message along tn
same wire at the same time, and ha
exhibited the achievement at the Ant
werp Universal ordinar,
instruments and ordinary TELEGRAPH
lines being employed.
After careful investigation of nor
NAL weights of 1870 children between
the ages of nine and l6, Professo
Mailing Hansen, of Copenhagen
states that a child may weigh from
one to two more pounds at night thai
in the morning, and may be over .
pound and half lighter in the even
ing before. From one evening to tn.
next he may increase one pound o
decrease three-fourths of pound. A
child's weight shows three marked
periods of variation during the year
viz: A period of decrease from thu
middle of May to the middle of July
next Il period of little or no chang
from the middle of November to tn
middle of Nav. On the whole, tn
increase in ehild's weight is limite'
to one-fourth or one-ffth of the year
the rest of the time showing eithe
loss of weight or compensation 70
loss. The appetite varies greatly bu
regularly with the months, bein,
greatest IN March and least IN Januar,
Boys eat one-6fth more than girls
but often grow heavy less rapidly.
In a paper read before the Frenc|
Academy Of Sciences, Mons. Minar'
has proposed diminishing the violenc
Of storms by attaching a large mum
Der of lightning rods to the tall tcle
graph poles and connecting them witt
the metals of RAILWAYS. Others hav'
advocated the discharge of artiller,
for the same purpose. The simpl'
plan of bell-ringing has been suggest
ed to Mr.. w. Mattieu Williams by