Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1884-05-05

Compiled for the wooI RIVER TINES
The important services rendered by
science to the fisheries of the Ii tied
States and other countries have at last
produced quite en- impression in Great
Britain. The London Fisheries Elk
hibition of last year has been followed
by the establishment of a marine
laboratory in Scotland; and society
of eminent scientists is now being or
ganized for the study OF British food :
fishes and mo!lusks, and all other AMI
NAL and vegetable resources Of the
sea. The new body is to be known
as "The Society for the Biological
Investigation of the Coasts Of the
United Kingdom" aud Prof. Huxley
is its first president.
Mons. Vigna! has concluded that
the germs OF consumption may Turk IN
the dust Of rooms or streets, as he has
4 proven that the bacili in the matter
expectorated by consnmptive patients
are not destroyed by being repeatedly
dried and moistened, and dust con-
tanning such matter may be an agent
Of contagon to persons predisposed
to the disease or in whom the bacili
find suitable soil for propagation. a
Guinea-pig inoculated with the mat
ter IN the condition in which it is
likely to exist in the streets died in
three months from genuine consump-
ton.
The possibility Of obtaining illum-
mating gas in considerable quantities
from the droppings of COWS and horses
has been demonstrated to the French
Academy of Sciences by Mons. Guyot.
The process does not lessen the value
of the fertilizer.
Speech has recently teen photo
graped. The picture was obtained by
moving Photographic plate quickly
past diaphragm vibratcd by the
+ voice. A bounding line between
light and shadow was thus produced
on the plate, forming curves closely
corresponding to the sound vibrations
$ simple curves tor novels, compE-
Gated ones for consonauts.
Mons. =. Rrnard has communicated
f to the French Academy of Sciences
the results Of some experiment., on t. G
4 influence OF extremely high pressure
n on living organisms. In water under IA
pressure of 1000 atmoSpheres soluble
ferments were entirely unaffected; in
fusoria, lcechcs and mollusks wer,
rendered insensinlc at 600 atmospheres
but recovered when the pressure wa
>, removed; fishes with swimming blad.
ders resisted 100 atmC spheres, became
I inscnsble at 200, and were killed a,
800. The addition of even sin4l,
: atmosphere to the ordinary pressure
often causes great inconvenience to The
human BODY, and life would bccom.
' extinct under a very few atmosphcres
The pressure borne by the ti,hes-lO(
atmosphcres-i is equivalent to ncarl ,
1900 pounds to the square inch.
Investigators concerning the eilec
of different forms of artificial illumina
ton on the health have shown that Ia,
tallow candle is the most UNIV holcsom,
agent, and the electric light the best
- The incsndesccnt electric lamp pro
duces only about one thrtie,h as mucl
heat as the tallow candle, willie i
gives out no carbonlc acid or water
. One gas Jet in a room is said to vi,iat
the air as much as six persons.
4 At late meeting of the l.onlol
IA Medical Society sketches were eNmb
tied representing a curious method @
putting vo,,ng children to sleep whic
is practiced by mothers in the lima
layas. The infant is swathed in
large mass of clothes and placed upo
piece of bark or mating in one @
the small wooden irrigation channel
which run from springs near almos
every village, the child's position ben!
such that small steam Of water ful!
upon the top Of its head and, ylancng
OF, runs under the bark or mating
without further wetting tie body Q
the clothes. Children so placed slice
sc quietly for hours.
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