Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1884-07-30

After n careful weighing of all
available evidence, Prof. Attfeld, f.
r. S., concludes that there is not the
faintest cause for alarm concerning
the occurrence of tin, led, or any
other metal in canned food. When in
Jury has resulted from the eating of
such food, it has probably been due to
unsoundness of the food and not to
poison derived from the can.
"Pyrimids of instructions" so
called, have been erected at Weimar,
Munich and other German towns. The
faces show the elevation of the place
| the difference of local time from that
of the chief cities of the world, the
population, and Il variety of statisti-
cal information, while there are also
exposed to public view a clock, Their
| mOmeter. barometer and Wind-yane.
Workmen in the st. Gothard Tun-
mel were affected with u peculiar dis
ease, which seemed to be caused by
minute worms. The same malady
has been observed among brick-mak-
ers. From the latest researches it ap-
pears that the worms develop in
muddy water which the Workmen
carelessly drink.
Notwithstanding the belief of
| physicists that sunlight cannot pene
trate far into the sea, Mr.. S. j. Smith
| remarks that Il comparative study of
deep-sea fishes and those from caves
shows cOnclusiVely that the darkness
beneath 1000 fathOmS of sea-Watpr is
very different from that of ordinary
caverns, and that while it may be
possible that thus modification of the
darkness of the ocean abysscs is due
| to this cause.
"A resolution adopted by the
Ophthalmologica Society of England
recommends the circulation of a card
| warning all who have charge of young
infants that if a child's cyelids be-
come red and swollen physician
| should be consulted at once. The So
ciety finds that young children are
very liable to u form of ophthalmia,
! which if neglected, is likely to result
in permanent blindness. An inquiry
among many institutions shows that
the PERCENTAGE of cases of blindness
| which are traceable to this infantile
| disease is very large, being nowhere
less then thirty per cent.
After visit to some of the Alaska
glaciers. Mr.. Thomas Meehan states
that beneath the Muir glacier, said to
| be 400 miles long, flows rapid torrent
which he estimates to be 100 feet
| wide and four feet in average depth,
| and which runs summer and winter
without interruption. At its termi-
nation the glacier hangs over the sea.
and gives off icebergs. MI. Meehan
remarks that the great ice-sheets have
| their lakes, rapids, waterfalls, hills
and valleys; that the waterways
change their courses at times through
the melting progresses freely in the
suns rays, but not in the shade.
A preponderance of blue in the
twinkling stars has been found by
Mons. Gu. Montigny, of Brussels, to
indicate the presence of aqueous va
por in the ali, and to be all infalible
sign of rain, while deficiency of blue
and preponderance Of green and
violet show that the air is in an alb
normally dry state. From such in
dications he predicted that 1883 would
be a drier year in Brussels than those
which had Immediately proceeded it,
and his prediction was accurately
fulfilled. Relying on the persistence
of this same sign he now announces
that the period Of wet years, which
commenced in 1876, has passed. and
that series Of finer and drier seasonal
may be expected. Further results Of
Mons. Montigny's attempts to rough
! ly forecast the character of coming
seasons will be awaited with much in
tereSt.
''The true philosopher says MI.
Mattieu Williams in referring to the
scientific lecturers at the London In
ternational Health Exhibition, ''sees
in all such efforts to intermingle
science with practical daily work,
and. above all, with joyous recreation,
the fulflment of the great object
which alone justifes the existence of
science schools, universities, learned
societies. original research, etc. l put
recreation above all, because the ele-
waiting moral and intellectual influ-
ences of science operate most power
fully on those who make it recrea-
ton, and at least upon the specialist
who uses it as a matter Of business,
like any other trade, OF in order to Oh
tain social status by public displays.
1t is even possible that these latter
may be morally degraded by their
scientific attainments. They certain
ly are so whenever they assume the
pharisaical airs of scientific priest
hood, by looking down with pedantic
self-cOmplacency upon vulgar people
who are not as they are.'
DR.. A. G.. Peale states that the
geyser region of Iceland covers an
area of about 5000 square miles; that
of New Zealand, $500 square miles.
and of the Yellowstone National park
3,57S square miles. Besides these
great geyser regions of the world there
areIafnumber of places where a few in
dividual geysers are known, as in
Thibet, the Azores, Mexico, Japan
and Java. In the number OF springs
and noted geysers, the Yellowstone
National Park and New Zealand far
exceed Iceland; in which the Great
Geyser and Stokhr are the only two
prominent spouters. The number Of
springs in New Zealand appears to
be large, but not known. Over 1000
springs in the Yellowstone Park have
been enumerated and mapped, and
among them are seventy-one geysers,
of which about twenty are known to
spout to height of not less than fifty
feet. There is probably but little
IL. l.
in the heights to which the column
of water is thrown, although the
Yellowstone Park has, perhaps, a
greater number which erupt regularly
to height Of one hundred feet OF
more. The maximum recorded
heights are 300 feet for the Excelsior
of the National Park, 2i2 feet for the
Great Geyser of Iceland, and 200 feet
for one of the New Zealand geysers.
'There is a family of comets, ''says