Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-10-30

the notifications made in this substance by
by the acids or alkalies contained in the
plants themselves.
\ French scientist, Mons. +. Krasen, has
sought 10 demonstrate that certain anomal-
les in the distribution Of plants, according
to altitude. must be due to a comparatively
recent change in the elevation of the noun
tains on which they grow.
Van Rysselberghe, in Belgium, has sue
ceeded in transmitting telephone and
a Geographic message along the same wire
at the same time, and has exhibited the
achievement at the Antwerp Universal Exhi-
ordinary instruments and ordinary
telegraph lines being employed.
The dissection off South African Bush
man has shown to DIR. Testut several ape
Ike characteristics in the arrangement OF
the muscles, but Mons de Quatretages re-
fuses to accept this as evidence in favor of
the theory of mans descent from the apes.
The comma bacillus seems likely to
prove a bone of contention among invCsti-
gators 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 br, Messvs. Treble and
Strauss claim to have recently discovered
the same germ in cases Of diarrhoca in hot
countries.
In paper read beore tue Academy del
Lincei of Rome, Prof. Carlo Maggioraui has
described some experiments proving that
the presence CT powerful magnets exerts a
remarkable influence on the Matching Of
eggs. The effect IS to arrest the develop
ment Of the embsyos or to IS retard it as to
produce imperfect chickens.
From surveys of the Gulf Of Mexico it
appears that its area is $4,000 square
miles, and thot the area Of the surface in
/ clude within the lOG-aBthom line is 3S7 1000
/ square miles-rather more than one-third
of the surface having less than 100 tathoms.
/ The greatest recorded depth in the Gulf is
| 2,ll9 sathoms. the mean depth being S5S
tathoms.
Prof. Moseley of the famous Challenger
expedition around the world has discovered
eyes in the shells Of the chitonidor no less
than l 1000 being contained in the shell of
q single animal As the she'll grows larger
new ewes are formed. No other Mollusca
have any sense-organs in their shells, but
the chitonid;r, in addition to eyes, have
elaborate organs of touch permeating their
shells.
Snakes are never found in the island of
Iona. of the west coast of Scotland, al,
though they exist in the island Of Null,
only three-uuarters of a mile distant. The
Duke Of Argyll reports that during the hot
weather of last August an adder succeeded
in swimming across the dangerous channel
to Iona, and was about to land, when it was
seen and killed.
By exam nation and measurement dur
ing the last two years, DR.. f. Svenonius
has found the glaciers Of Sweden to num-
Der about a hundred, with combined area
ofonly nine Swedish square miles (about
100 English square miles,. The glacial
area of the country had been previously es-
timated at three times as great.
Some very severe cases OF lead poisoning
lately occurred whose causes were so Oh
scare as to give rise to considerable uneasi-
ness. Tbs chemists we're called in, aud,
according to the Journal de Medicine, dis
covered that the trouble was owing to broil-
ing meat over FIRE made with wood that
had been formerly painted with white lead.
The pigment was discovered in portion of
the NEST which had remained untasted, and
was also found in the ashes of the fire. A
still nicer piece Of analyticalskill found the
same substance in the perspiration of the
persons poisoned.
In a recent lecture at the Lowell Institute,
Boston, Prot R. s Ball, Astronomer Royal
OF Ireland, declared that it to be his belief
that the masses Of stone and iron which fall
to the earth as meteorites were originally
thrown ont by terrestrial voleanoes,at a re
mote period in our planets geological his,
tory. If So the fragments must have been
projected beyond the influence of the earth's
attration by explosions giving them the
tremendous initial velocity Of six miles a
second.