The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1885-12-11


- Jfeet in depth-Mr: John E
Goodridge, Jr., suggests hat the
icy stream might be turned aside
TO mid.Ocean. Then, it is believed
the Gulf Stream would skirt tho
American coast and materially
ch auge its climate.trom Cape Hat
teras to Newfoundland, freeing the
Gulf of st. Lawrence from icebergs
and giving TO Nova Scotia the
mildness OF Cape May.
USING THE ; EARTH's HEAT
There is abundant reason tor be.
lieving that tho earth's crust is
very thin, asserts Mr.. j. Starkie
Gardner, and it seems not impossi-
BILE that some means may be devils
eel tor utilizing the intense heat OF
the molten mass below. This is al.
ready being done, in fact, to some
extent, an artesian well baving
been bored at Pesth to obtain
warm water for public baths, etc.
From IA depth of about 1000 feet a
large quantity of water heated to
l6l degrees Fahrenheit pours
forth, and the boring is to be con.
tinued until water at IFS degrees
is yielded.
BRAINS IN TERTIARY TIMES
In a paper on the size OF the brain
IN extinct animals, Prot. Marsh, of
Yale College, has brought forward
the remarkable fact that in the
race for life during past ages
the survival of any particular
group of animals depended on the
size of their brain as compared with
that OF their contemporaries Of the
same class. Braina won then, as
now, aud the brain of animals
crushed out of existence was always
found 10 be relatively smaller than
that of those OUTLYING them.
REPLACING NERVES -Succesfl!
experiments have been made in
joining aud restoring the functions
OF divided nerves. even nerves OF
different function being used to re.
place those partially destroyed. II
is thought that even sight and
hearing may be restored, after in
jury to tue nerves on which they
depend, by bringing other nerves
INTO service by artificial union.
A REMARKABLE INSTRUMENT
Among the hluts of the chalk for
nations is occasionally found one
which emits a clear musical sOun.l
when struck with another flint.
TIssandier tells of u distinguished
French musician. II. Baudrc, who
is a Jealous collector OF these musi.
stones, aud who has just sue.
ceeded in making unique "piano
from them. In this instrument the
hints r suspended 10y wires above
a sounding board, and are played
upon by two other fints. The
stones of the piano number twenty
six, forming the two chromaiic oc-
taves, aud were collected with
much patient labor during a period
of more than thirty years. There
to be DO relation between
the sizes of the stoues aud their
tones.
FLOWER PIGMENTs.-Hdnspn. a
chemist, finds that the col
.rs of fruits and flowers are furn-
lshed by a very small number of
pigments, which he ~classifies into
three groups: first, reds; second
.ell0ws; and third, blues and viO-
let's. He Omits chlorOphyll green,
because it is comparatively rare ia
lowers. Orange is prOdnced by II
th%ickening of "a deposit of the fun.
yellow pigment, the col
bring matter being the same in the
md of an orange as in a yellow
l%uttercup, Roses and carnations
show the characteristic red pig
nent, in which variations are pro
luced by the presence OF acids.
UNIVERSAL COLOR BLINDNESS.
JoIor-bliudness, as usually under
is u blindness to red, to
Or to blue or violet; and
lbOut u male in every twenty Eve
appears to be unable to discrimi.
tate between the principal eolors o!
he spectrum. In a stricter sense,
u persons are cOlOr-blind, for, al
Chevreul is said to have
'een able TO distinguish 14,42O
ones OF color, it has been proven
bat the hnman eye is totally iuca-
Of receiving all the vibrations
4 color which must exist in the ]
pectTum. :
CONTEMPLATING CoRPsEs,-A
chemist proposes coating a..
be bodies Of the dead with a skin
{ copper by means Of the we'll J
nown electro plating process. A {
ecOnd plating Of gold or silver
Ould BE- added Il desired. This
which permanently IRE
srves corpses, has already been
pplied to several human Subjects I