Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1885-07-16

gle plant lSG,3W; SO that, after de-
$4,000 as bad, there would
remain sufficient to cover al acre Of
ground six inches apart. BY the same
computation, the next generation
would cover a space larger than the
isle of Anglesea; and the fourth gen.
GRAFTON would yield sufficient seeds to
carpet the entire land surface of the
globe. And yet the seeds of some
orchids are much more numerous,
those in single capsule of one spe-
cics being estimated at 1,15G,44O.
Attention has been called to hith-
erto unknown fruit-trec, which has
been found in the southeastern part
of the island of New Guinea. 1t
grows TO hight of 60 feet, and bears
a large globose fruit, wholesome and
pa|atable, with u flavor resembling
that Of the pear. Baron Won Mueller,
the Australian botanist, has named
the tree bassia erskineana, and the
fruit is known to the natives us posi-
posi-.
A microscopes, Mr.. Spencer Moore,
has shown that the bacteria which
produce or accompany "sweating Of
the feet" are identical with those pro-
ducing chemical action in the soil. In
the latter situation they reduce the
sulphates to sulphites and the phos-
pilates to phosphites, aud in both stu.
atoms are instrumental in setting free
ammonia.
An English geologist, 7. A. Jamie
son, finds evidence that the Mediter-
rancan was at one time shut of from
tie Atlantic; that it was divided into
two distant basins by u strip of land
extending from Italy to Africa; and
that most Of it's islands, notably ST.
city and Malta, were connected with
the mainland.
In communication to the London
Royal Society, Shelford Bidwell has
shown that iron bars are elongated
by magnetization; that stee! bars are
elongated, but not to the same extent,
soft steel being elongated more than
lard steel; and that nickel is short.
cned.
In recent experiments in Paris il
was shown that human lody of av.
erage size could be entirely burned in
II common stove in forty hours, with
out disagroeablc smell. Tins is taken
as all argument in favor of cremation
as it shows that the process need not
be expensive.
A French scientific authority state.
that hens, ducks and geese having
dark plumagc lay earlier and more
frequently than those OF light colo
this difference only holding good
however, when the birds live in tl,e
open air and arc freely exposed to til,
sun.
The favoritc cosmetic of the Japan
csc, according to report by +. SAX
age, consists chiefly of carbonate o
lead aud ricc-powder starch, which
compound has been used by womcl
apparently without poisonous ctIcc
since early in the eighth century.
1t appears that climate is especial,
regarded as having so much cffec
upon hearing that English physicians
sometimes seek to lessen the deafness
of patients by sending them to tn,
dry parts of New Zealand.
The researches OF Fol, IA Frencl
aiatomist, have satisfied him tina
daring the fifth and sixth weeks of it
development the human embryo i
furnished with a genuine tail.
Europeans find the heat Of Algeri'
\ great obstacle to agricultural work
and, to avoid much OF it, they pro
pose making harvests at night by aie
OF electric light.
The fora of C-ylon includes 5000
Towering plants and 250 ferns, l0|
genera Of the towering plants not be
ing found in the peninsula of India.
Every spring the cells Of certain
French lakes cross several miles o
land to reach the Seine and the Marine