Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1884-10-22
Mons. Andres contends that hail is

Mons. Andres contends that hail is |
produced during ascending whirl-
winds.
The curious fact is mentioned hy |
Mr.. Il. Stejnegcr that the ptarnigan,
as we'll IS some other birds, regularly |
sheds its claws every SUMMER.
An imperial decree forhids the cir
culating libraries to issue the works OF
Darwin, Agassiz, Huxley, Lubbock,
Adam Smith, Lewes and Spencer to
Russian readers.
The combined attraction of the sun
and moon so mobiles the intensity Of
pravita,ion on the earth, Mons. Povin-
care finds, that the clock is retarded
half second at the poles.
Experiments in England have
shown that gas and oil are about
equally good for lighthouses, and that
the electric light is superior to eitherin
fine weather but probably not so good
in fogs.
After Investigations concerning the
relative value of different kinds of
animal food, Prof w. o. Atwater has
concluded that fish is us nutritive as
the flesh of land animals, but that
oysters rank below fish in nutriti"e
qualities.
Sir Joseph Fayrer considers it most
remarkable that II poisonous snake
cannot poison one of its species, and
only slightly any vcnomous snake, al
though it quickly kills harmless. A
vigorous corba can kill several dogs or
froma dozen to twenty fowls before its
bite becomes impotent and then the
rapid re-sccretion OF virus soon makes
it as dangerous as eyer.
Persons who are color-blind, are
usually either red-blind or green-blind
and their infirmity is almost always
confined to one color. Cases of violet
blindness are rare, and no instance is
known of u person unable to distin-
guish between biue;,ud yellow. 1t is
a remarkable fact that, while about
one man in twenty-five is more or less
color-blind, the affection seldom &C.
ours among women, only one case
having been observed 10y DR.. b. joy
LETTERS in All examination of HOO
ladies. t' ."'-i'. 't~
How much of the pleasure Of living
comes from the exercise of the little
considered sense of taste or that of
smell it is hard to estimate Harriet
Martineau,.. the English authoress,
seems to have been one of the few
persons having no sense of taste, as
recent writer asserts that she was en-
tirely destitute of it. She reported
that the faculty came to her once,
when the deliciousness of a leg of
mutton aroused an eager anticipation
of the enjoyment OF her next dinner;
but nothing came Of it, for her tasting
power was withdrawn as suddenly
as it had been given. The sense of
smell WIS dlSO uchlCu hClJ 40 IL ""
Wordsworth. In his case the lacking
sense also appeared Oh g. single oc-
casion, when he "smelled bean-fleld
and thought it heaven"
According to late papers by Frofs.
Julien and Bolton, sonorous beach,
sands are far from being the raritles
they were considered some years ago,
as they are already found in seventy
= four American and thirteen foreign
localities, and the number is constan-
thy increasing. When suddenly COM
pressed between the hands, the pitch
rising as the quntity is diminished
The loudest sound may be made by
suddenly bringing together two di-
vided portions Of sand enclosed in a
bag. Prof. Julien considers that the
conditions of sonorOusness are perfect
dryness, uniformity of grain ranging
from about one-tenth to one-fifth of an
inch in diameter, and freedom from
dust. He thinks that any sand satisfy
ing these conditions may be musical.
When wet, sonorous sands generally
become quicksands,