The Dillon tribune. [volume] (Dillon, Mont.) 1881-1941, 1884-11-08
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SCIENTIFIC NOTES.

Zodiaca' light is now regarded BY French
scientists as simply reflection OF light
from the illuminated part of the earth upon
Az open stratum Of the atmosphere.
Sanitary lectures are delivered at Glas-
Cow, Scotland, devoid Of technicalitit:s, and
at a subsequent lecture the preceding one
can be purchased :. printed torn for two
cents.
Fil:criny stone is now made by mixing
in water, in certain portions, clay, iei'gate"
chalk, coarse and fine glass, sand and
ground flint They are moulded and hard
burned.
At Pixies Peak, Colorado, Il new mineral
has been found called sidcrophlli,e, because
of the large portion Of iron which j: con-
tains Its composition seems to be an
iron aiumina mica.
If report can be trusted variety of hip
popotamus, named like the Egyptian god
dess. called Ta.urt, or Thorneris, and hith-
cftO UNKNOWN, ls:> OCC' OSoSo"N'NN "t>'"
some remote part of the river Nile.
Most of the so-called floods" for in
tants have been examined BY the State
Medica, Society and condemned. Nothing
is known Of their composition, and they
NAV be 4 good deal worse than nothing.
Typhoid fever finds it's source in sewerage
cmanations and polluted water, or if due to
some specific poison, these are the instru-
ments Of its diffusion. Diph;heria also
comes from defective sanitary arrange
,nents, and the sanitary inspectors are re-
sponsible for it.
The mellowness of old wine, it is found
bv experiments in Germany, is due to an
increase in the proportion of glycerine
contained in it more than to decrease in
the proportion Of tannin which it holds.
Returned missionaries say that unterment-
ed wine was never known in Syria.
The microscope reveals that there are
1000 muscles in caterpillar, and that
the eye of drone contains 1000 mirrors.
There are spiders as small as grain of
sand, and they spin thread SO fine that it
would require 400 Of them to equal the
size of a single hair.
1t is now held by some that the gulf
stream does not enter the Gulf Of Mexico
at all, but is an equatorial current coming
from the African coast through the Carrib-
bean sea. Striking the coast of Yucatan,
it is DETECTED to the northeast, and passes
out into the Atlantic through the straits OF
Yucatan and Florida.
DR.. Mills method Of determining the
total solid matter in different waters is
based on the fact that small glass bead,
with weight attached, will rise in saline
solution of known strength the more
slowly the greater the amount OF solvent
pressure. The rate Of ascent is also de-
pendent upon the nature of the soluble
matter.
The dioscope does for the eye what the
telephone does tor the car. An ooJect'Fe
lens is fitted in some hall of entertainment,
and by an electric wire communication is
established with small white glass plate
in room at any distance. Excluding the
light from this room, a complete reflection
is obtained of what is passing in the hall.
Very little is known of the constitution
of the sun, and that little is not much else
than the theories or belief Of astronomers,
still to be demonstrated. The central por-
ton, according to Prof: Young, is probably
for the most part a mass Of heated gas, the
photosphere is shell Of luminous clouds,
the chromosphere is composed mainly OF
incondensible gases, and what constitutes
the corona is entirely unknown.
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