The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1885-10-02
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cyclones usually occur about tour
o'clock in the afternoon.
PABteu,'s method Of vaccination for
cattle plague has proved successful in
India for horses, COWS, aheep, buffalo,
aseea and elephants.
Extreme cold converts tin into q
aemi.crs stalline mars, containing large
casities Tho pipes Of church organ
have been 50 altered by cold as TO be
no longer sonoronn.
Bones have been proven 70 quickly
dissolve IN sea-water. They are con-
ssqnantly asldom oItaiuad during 90 IAN
dtsdgings, although teeth, which resist
the action OF the water indaanitoly, are
often brought up.
Prof. Herbert Smith aud his party OF
naturalists from Baltimore. whe have
been for some years In Brazil, have
made collection Of 900, 900 specimens
Of insects, birds and animals 10 eigh.
teen provinces Of the empire. They
will explore the valley Of the Amazon
this Fall.
Lyell estimated that the gorge Of
Niagara River was cut OUT in about
50, 900 years, but surveys TO determine
tho present rate of recession Of the Falls
Indicate that the work may have been
done IN 10000 years. Dming forty
one years the average annual wear Of
tbe rock was . feet.
A correspondent Of the Monthly
Msgazine Of Pharmacy, writing from
Measina, says: "a bottle uf bromins
left 10 closed room all night with the
stopper out destroys eli infection aud
insect lifs hare cleared places which
were Infected with vermin many times.
II is far more eifeesu1 than the vapor
of urning salphar.'
l. l. said that the prize Of 10000
traces offered BY the French Academy
for come certain test Of death, to pre-
vent people from being buried alive, ives
given TO physician who announced
that, on holding the hand Of ths sup.
posed dead person TO a strong light, il
living, n scarlet tiage is seen where the
fingers touch. showing ciatiauous cir
culstion Of the blonl, ~ aearle. being
seen il dead.
The utility of l-ars 10 animals In gen.
erAl, and particularly to those which
ara EXPOSED much 90 the dass, such al
birds which liyc amid tbs wiad, is ess,
TO understand. The eye would soon
lie dir,ied and blocked up had not na.
tare provided this friendly ever howing
stream TO wash end refresh IL. A very
little fluid Ia necessary 10 keep the ere
always clear and clean. But here,
again, We must admire the wondrous
naechanism which works tho human
boly for il is TO he observed that,
when through some accident or burt
the eyeball has need Of more water than
usual to cleanse il, nature At once turn,
on a more atundsnt supply of tears.
Ths question whether or not the
English language would wholly super
sede the French in Canada has been
much discussed by educators IN that
country. The latest opinion on the
subject Is that Of Prof Rivss, who, in
an address before The Uniyssalfy oi
New Bsunswick, maintained that tbe
hope OF doing away with the French
language, although the Freneh-speakine
class formed only one.tbird of the pop.
ulation of Canada, must be abandoned
forever, and that the fact of there be-
ing two languages in Canada must be
distinctly recognized. He said th:l
was due to tho rapid increase OF th'
French element, and to It's influence il
all social, commercial, political and cd
ucational centres.