The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-12-03

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French authority asserts that The
complaint known as ebay fever sup
posed to be quite recent origin. can be
traced as far back as the sixteenth
century.
A paper on flying machines lately
read before the Royal Society Of New
South W ales wes illustrated with six
teen self-supporting models, varying
in weight from three-fourths of an
ounce to three ounces.
The temperature Of the Gulf Stream
has been found by Captain Pillsbury
greatest velocity at the surface is four
and one-half knots, but the fluctuations
are frequent and great.
Carefully collected statistics show
that since 1889 the disasters from
lightning in the kingdom of SaxonA
have been becoming more numerous
each year. from which it is inferred
that some cause has increased the
number or severity of thunder-storms
in that part of Europe
Water-pipes of paper have been sat
isfactorily tested by DR.. d. Lewis, a
pipe 1000 feet long and two inches in
diameter having been used for several
years without leaking or imparting
taste to the water. Wound into pipe
form and soaked in tar. the paper be-
comes nearly as hard and strong as
iron.
An attempt is being made to increase
the number of plants grown in Ice
land. Barley, whose cultivation there
was long ago abandoned, has been
reintroduced, and st ReIkjavik bota-
mic garden has been established, in
which seeds of 382 kinds of plants
from near Christiania have been plant
cd.
King Oscar of Sweden has notified
the Paris Academy OF Sciences of his
intention to offer a prize of $500
l francs, with a gold medal valued al
| 1000 francs, to the author of the most
important contribution to. mathemati-
cal sciences, the award to be made on
the kings sixtieth birthday, january
| 21. 1889.
1t has been generally supposed thai
ants survive but single season, and
| one interesting result OF Sir John Lub
| books study OF the creatures Is the
finding of unexpected longevity among
them. Sir John has kept workers o.
Lasius niger and Formica fusca for
seven years, while two queens of the
i 4dllGE SBCCASS Al0Sb AOu OS aSoA~J
twelve years old. and he hopes to keeE
them in good health for a considerable
time longer.
The careful and laborious researches
of Prot. Fol, of Geneva. have resulted
in proving to his satisfaction that thu
human embryo has Il genuine tail. lik'
that of the cpbryos of other mammals
although it disappears in q short time
The theory OF nuns descent from tn,
apes is based upon several anomalie
|, in the structure and growth of the hu
man, body, but this discovery is re
garded as an important link III tn
chain of circumstantial evidence which
makes the hypothesis seem very prob
able to many students in certain
branches of science.
t Phosphorescence is observed in
great variety of marine animals, bu
Prof. w. G. Mcintosh remarks that til
functions of the luminosity cannot ye
be explained, the conditions unde
which it appears being very diverse
, The numerous views which have bee
advanced to account for the phosphore
scence itself range over wide area
) from its production by electricity, b
J continued agitation of the water,
inhibition of light, to its manifestatio
} as a vital action in the animals, or
l secretion of phosphorescence sui
stance.