Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1884-10-29

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A collection of stockings colored
with Injurious aniline dyes Is shown
at the London Health Exhibition.
A German botanist has given in
stances of the modification of plants
by insects SO as to produce new varie-
ties.
Some English bakers are using in
candescent electric lamps for lighting
an oven heated to 600 degrees Fahren-
heit. s5 as2
Spectroseopic researches have led
Mons. G. Fieyez, of the Royal Obser-
vatory of Brussels. to infer that sun
spots have q higher temperature than
the bright solar disc.
Two eases of the successful joining
of divided nerves haye been reported
to the Paris Academy of Sciences
function being restored in one case to
nerve which had been divided for
fifteen years.
A curious phenomenon observed by
Mons. Collad0n is that hailstones,
two or. three seconds after falling,
sometimes spring into. the air again,
to height Otter or twelve inches, as if
struck upward by the earth.
A French scientist, Mons. +. Krasen
has sought to demonstrate that GER
tain anomalies in the distribution of
plants, according to altitude, must be
due to a comparatively recent change
in the elevation of the mountains on
which they grow. ~ ..r 9.
After experiments i'm 1883 and 1854,
Messrs. A. Andouard and V. Dezaunay
have concluded that pulps and other
artitically prepared foods act injuri-
ously on the milk of cows, but in
crease the quantity of butter without
affecting its quality.
The dissection of South African
Bushman has shown to DR.. Testut
several ape like characteristics in the
arrangement of the muscles but Mons.
de Quatrefages refuses to accept this
evidence in favor of the theory of
mans descent from the apes.
A student of the colors of flowers,
Mons. Schetzler, contends that only
one coloring substance exist 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
themselves.
Van Rysselberghe, in Belgium, has
succeeded in transmittinga telephone
and .telegraphic message at the
same time, and has exhibited the
achievement at the Antwerp Uni
versal Exhibition--ordinary instru-
ments and ordinary telegraphic lines
being employed.
Ina paper read before the Academy
del Lincei, of Rome, Prof. Carlo Mag
giorani has described some expert
ments proving that the presence OF
powerful magnets eXerts a remarkable
influence upon the Matching of eggs.
The effect is to so retard it as to pro-
duce imperfect chickens.
From surveys of the Gulf of Mexico
itappears that it's area is $3.50 Q
square miles, and that the area of the
surface included within the l00fatholn
line is 3S7 900 square miles-rather
more than one-third of the surface
having a depth of less than 100 faith
oms. The greatest recorded depth in
the gulf is 2119 fathoms, the mean
depth being S5S fathoms.
The comma bacillus" seems likely
to prove bone of contention among
investigators of diseases. This minute
parasite has been supposed by DR..
Koch to be found only in cases OF
cholera, and to be the cause of that
disease, but Messrs. Treble and
Straus claim to have recently discov-
cred the same germ in cases OF
diarrhea in hot countries.
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 a
mile distant. The Duke of Argyll re-
ports that during the hot weather OF
last August al adder succeeded In
swimming across the dangerous chan
mel to iona, and was about to land,
when it was seen and killed.
Prof. Monseley, of the famous
Challenger expedition around the
world, has discovered eyes in the shells
of chitonidae, no less then 1000 be.
ing contained in the shell of a single
animal. AS the shell grows larger
new eyes are formed. No other mol
lusca have any sense-organs in ti''il
shells, but the chitonidae, in addition
to eyes. have elaborate organs of touch
permeating their shells.
In recent lecture at the Lowell In
stitute, Boston, Prof. r. s. Ball, AS
tronomer Royal of Ireland, declared
it to be his belief that the masses OF
stone and iron which fall to the earth
as meteorites were originally thrown
out by terrestrial volcanoes at a remote
period in our planets geological history
If SO, the fragments must have been
projected beyond the influence of the
earth's attraction by explosions giving
them the tremendous initial velocity
of six miles a second.
A great rock standing in the middle
of the Aar glacier, In the Alps OF
Switzerland, formed the principal
part of the Hotel DIES Neuchatelois, a
rough shelter used by Agassiz and his
| friends while investigating the phen-
omena of glaciers from 1910 to 1913.
Frost has since split the rock into a
thousand nieces. three of which have