Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1884-07-04
Scientific Miscellany.

Corrosive sutlimale is said to be
gaining favor among surgeons as al
efficient antisep,ic.
Platinum has recently been draw
into Il wire SO fine us to be invisible to
the naked eye.
According to Archibald Geike, F R.
s., q large part of tho east coast Of En-
gland is being rapidly worn away. In
Holverness 4 strip of land more than y
mile broad has been carried aWay in
eight centuries, and IN some places rs
much rs five yards is yearly given up
to the sea-
Animal life is very abundant in some
parts of the world ut great depths in
the sea- This is Illustrated by the fsct
that during last summer S explorations
by the French steamer ',Talisman one
haulof its net brought up, from a
depth Of 800 fathoms, 1000 fishes %and
nearly 1000 crustaceans Of different
kinds. This capture was made in the
Atlantic, near the Cape Verd Islands.
''Vaccination'.' for Rabies. Mons.
Pasteur has been continuing his re-
searches on rabies, or hvdrophobia,
and believes that he has NOW succeed
Ell In rendering asnum Der Of dogs Sc
cure from future liability to the dis
ease by the plan OF inoculating them
with modified virus. II immunity
from rabies were in this way secured
in the whole species, tive human race
would have nothing further to fear
from the disorder, since mankind is
|rnever affected except from virus pro-
ceeding directly from mad dogs. :.
The Airs Plant Food. nitro
gen and oxygen, the air confirms in
smaller proportion oarbonic acid, am
nonia and certain nitrous com pounds
substances which are very important
TO vegetation. Late researches at the
French observatory on the Pic tll Midi,
about.9, 500 feet above sea level, shows
that the proportional carbonic acid in
the air does not2vary .perceptihly with
the altitude, rs has hitherto been
thought, and that ammonia is as COM
pletely diffused in the atmosphere rs
carbonic acid. BY diseliarging OF abb
sorbing these two gaseous substances,
the ssais believed to act as q great
| regulator OF the supply, keeping their
/ proportions in the air re,narka bly, con-
slant aud uniform throughout the
world although the quantities with
ffdraWii aEti stsisIctl OH the land must be
necessarily changing. It has been
supposed thai the nitrous COM
/ pounds are psetluced by electric dis
charges which cause the chemical
union OF the sir 5 oxy gen and nitrogen,
!; aud tlsis view is confirmed by the fact
!lh::i ito &; races of these compounds
jsilavs been lcsl:sl on the Pic tlli Midi
::4.ovs Tie liz CUTS reached by thunder
sls,snls.3 s$ y s., ! III 81
k SsIHbiosis. In-the animal and vege-
table Kingdoms 3are found two distinct
forms of fellowship In Whici, dissimilar
Iorganism live instantly together. In
Tone form that Of parasiti ii --one OF
| heassoeiated organs ms lives at the ex-
E.pense Of the other,# rs. Tor instance, The
lnistletoefon the apple tree. IN the
other form, tie tlyantage OF the COM
partnership is mutual, as Ill the case OF
the we'll known hermit crab one sps-
Ecies Of which picks vi, an empty shell
/ for an abode and shares this and its
food withaa sea .anemone, which in ra-
turn protects its host bv# means OF snu-
merous long threads charged with !.
singing acid which II s roots out on The
Islightest alarm .ex perinent 1T
Naples it has been proven that the
compact between these two partners is
SO close that ono is indispen iblesto the
other. Is still more rem as kab lie iil..us-
Itrationsis drawn from the cand Ie-nnt
treesof South America, which forms an
alliance with |. species Of Small black
amt. TO their als ual benetis 81 this
Icnriolls part p, which ears to
exist among man a nl:ti and veget v
| Die species, but Wlhicil \ d atura Isis IRE
only just hes innil stusly, tI,es anne
tof sy II, biosis mas been lied. the
llast msehng Ut the Gel tura1i lists.
/ Prot. Herltsig poinlcd out hut such
inter-depende nce Of s,rga ism may
have! playssl ~ imp ott :tnt part il The
develop nient of s.sas
-. !.
The Crow Ind i.llls ssre est iiaated a
Sbe worth e;aesl lam. Ss