Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1884-11-27
SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY.


works Of scicncc!-to regard even the
mosquito as blessing in disguise. DIR.
Carlos Finlay, the Cuban physician, be-
liaves that he has demonstrated that in
oculatio. with yellow fever may be made
by the sting Of the Cuban day-mosquiso
and that the fever thus impaired will
vary in duration and intensity in proper
ton to the number of punctures and the
quantity Of poison retained by the insect S
sting. Results already obtained lead
him to think that form Of the disease
may be given by one or two mosquito
bites which will be free from danger and
will render the subject Of the operation
secure against severe attack Of yellow
fever.
The s'comma bacillus seems likely to
prove bone Of contention among inves-
tigaton Of diseases. This minute para
site 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
discovered the same germ in cases Of
diaIrhea in hot countries.
The dissection of South African
Bushman has shown to DR.. Testut sever
81 ape-like characteristics in the arrange
ment of the muscles, but Mons. de Quat-
rsfages refuses to accept this as evidence
in favor Of the theory Of mans descent
from the apes.
Two cases Of the successful joining Of
divided nerves have been reported to the
Paris Academy Of Sciences, function be-
ing restored in one case to nerve which
had been divided for fifteen years.
Some English bakers are using mean
descent electric lamps for lighting an oven
heated to 600 degrees Fahrenheit.
The Wintum Indians Of the Sacra-
mento Valley, according to Major Powell,
believe in the worlds, and that each has
ito peculiar class Of inhabitants. The
sky is smoke, while to the majority OF
Indians it is ice, and few think it quartz
crystal. Mountains were made by the
burowing Of the mole-god. Light and
darkness are maiden goddesscs. Rocks
and other inanimate things were once
living, and some rocks now live and speak
this being the Wintum explanation Of
echoes. Whirlwinds are little spirit.
seeking water to drink. Diseases ar,
caused by mythical animals. Bits o
negro folklore are found among. man,
tribes Of Indians, from whom the slave
must have obtained them.
From surveys Of the Gulf Of Mexic
It appears that its area is sos, 900 squar
miles, sand thatfthe area Of the surface in
Guided within the 10O-fathom line
387 600 square miles-rather more tha
one-third Of the surface having dept
Of. less than. 100. fathoms. The creates
recorded depth in the Gulf is 2,l19 faith
oms, the mean depth being 85s fathom.
A French scientist, Mons. F. fraser
has sought to demonstrate that certai
anomalies in the distribution Of plants
according to altitude, must bo due to
comparatively recent change in the Oh
walton Of the mountains on which the
grow.
Dr.. Charcot has described to III
French Academy Of Sciences some r,
searches BY Mons. Mairet which tend ,
confirm the notion that phosphorus is q
sential to brain work.
After experiments in 1883 and 1873.
Messrs. A. Andouard and v. Desauna
have concluded that pulps and other art
acially prepared foods act ,njsriously o
the milk Of COWS, but increase the quar-
tity Of butter without affecting its qualit,
An observer Of wasps finds that the
are most active from about $50 to
An. and from 2 to 3 pm.
For many years the astronomers Of Ii
Paris Observatory have been engaged
the work Of preparing complete charts
III stars to the thirteenth magnitude en-
braccd in the sone Of the ecliptic, or sun
apparent path. The work requires Sc,
enty-two charts, Of which fiity-two--col
taining 10000 stars-have been con
pleted, and four having $4,000 stars
are nearly finished. A great difficulty
now encountered, the stars In that pa
Of the heavens where the ecliptic cross,
the Milky Way being so numerous as
defy complete and accurate representatio
BY the ordinary process Of charting.
solution Of the difficulty, however, seem
TO have been found in a resort 10 photoo