Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1884-12-04
EcrEr1.EI- A.-3CILLAEY.

destroying the organic impurities in water
This leads III. Mat;icu Williams to re
mark thzt shs steamboats, On The Thames
of which coz, .lAinis have been made BE-
cause they disturb Ia bo'iou. are real,
very valuable agents frpni saaitary ,oin
Of view, for the yip.eus aei.a'iyn the,
produce mast greatly lessen the TiTei
foulness The steam .ags With aei;a,,
otherwise ssacnant esnals maR alsJ b
regarded as great beneiic;s:s.
A German insa<ti ,..er, II. t. Gopfett
has made some experiments to deter,nin,
whether, as bid bsen previously stated
plants. bulbs and roots are Killed By sad
den thawiDe, and aot BY shs preceding
freezing. IL submitted potatoes and sh'
bulbs Of hyacin;hs, nzrcissus, etc. tn :
temperature Of about three a,-rees below
freezing, end then suddenly to f.teer
degrees below freeing. This killed al
the bulbs, who;her they were aftprsarI
thawed either slowly Or rapidly, bu: noue
Of the bulbs were damaged By exposure
simply 10 three denrees balyw freezing,
the potatoes only being frozen. Certain
flowers which were tried were killed d.
rectly when frozen, AMI could not Be re-
vivcd by gradual thaSing. The bads Of
some woody plants bore temperature
Of zero, or few degrees below, aud sub
scquent th2ving at II degrees without
injury.
A possible source Of danger to usarinas
Is suggested BY report that during the
night Of Aug. %, 1854, the lantern Of a
Cuban lighthouse Was surrounded BY
such cloud of red insects ,ha. the light
a. seen from, a distance, Was changed to q
decidedly red color.
Some French scientists now regard the
zodical light as simply reflection Of light
from the Illuminated part Of the earth
upon an open stratum Of the atmosphere
The mind encounters the infinite in thu
contemplation Of niinate, as well as in til.
study Of vast natural phenomena. 9Th,
most universally diifuscd organism il
nature" says Rev. w. II. Daliingcr, pres
ident Of the London Royal Microscopic.
Society, 'sthe least in slze with which W.
are definitely acquainted, is 50 small tina
fifty millions Of them could lie togethe
in the one-hundredth Of an inch square
Yet these definite living things have tn
power of locomotion, of ingestion, of as
similatiop, of cxcrction, and Of cnormou
multiplication, and the material Of whic
the inconceivably minute living spcck
made, is highly complex chemical con
pound. We dare not attempt concev
ton Of the minuteness Of the ultimal
atoms that compose the several simp
elements that thus mystcriously combiu
to form the complex substance and pr,
pertias Of this least and lowliest Twin
thing. But il we could even measu,
these, as a mental necessity, we are urge
indefinitely on toa minuteness witho,
conceivable limit, in effect, minu.ene
that is beyond all finite measure or co,
ccption.'
A new electromagnetic, claimed to
considerably more powerful than the o
binary form, has been produced by Mon
A. Rioco, Of Palermo, Sicily. A lor
strip Of shcet-iron is rolled around a n,
Of soft iron, oiled paper being placed b
tween the different layers Of the strip
isolate them. One pole Of the battery
connected with the nut, to which the i
ncr end Of the iron strip is soldercd, viii
the other is connected with the out
end. The passage Of the current throue
the strip magnetixcs not only the nut b,
also each layer Of the iron coil, whis
plays the double role Of conductor M
magnetic substance.
In Paris. an electric lamp fed with
portable accumulator has been selectt
and rendered obligatory for use in see1
ing leaks in gas pipes. II is prohab
that many disastrou. explosions will
thus avoided.
A remarkable worm-known to Il
natives Of the Fiji Islands by the nan
Of "Mbalolo" and to naturalists as Salo
viridis--is found in certain Of the cor
archipcAgos Of the Pacific. The worn
appear periodically in great numbers, al
are highly esteemed BY the Fijians as 4
article Of food. The worms only NAL
their appearance to spawn, and the tin
Is reported to be the day of the quartz
ing Of the moon in October, unless tn,
falls at the beginning of the month, i
which case there win intervene anothe
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