Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1885-01-15
Scientific Miscellany.

toric ages.
DIR. Sophus Tromholt, of Norway, is
about preparing catalogue of all the
auroras which have been observed i'm
Northern Europe from the earliest
times.
The re-planting of forest trees in
north western India has already made
itself bencfcially felt, according to Sir
q. Birdwood, in increasing the rain
fall OF various districts.
The deep sea crustacea, according
to Prof. Moseley, either have very
large eyes or are eyeless, and there
must be source of light in the deep
sea. That source, he claims, is phos-
phOresence, but its light must be very
dim.
The little living worms which have
been most unexpectedly discovered in
ice are described by Prof. Leidy rs be-
ing white or colorless, and from one.
fourth to one-sixth of an inch long by
one-seventy-fifth of an inch in thick
ness, the species being unknown.
A Swedish naturalist, DR.. Wills, has
investigated the strength of various
kinds of sea weed to resist strains,
such as are caused by the swell of the
sea. He finds that sea weeds are very
strong and elastic, the parts which
ordinarily lie lowest in the water
being capable of bearing the greatest
strain.
According to Sir Trevor Lawrence,
Nj. p, there is a collector of orchids
in England who employs fourteen
persons-nearly all German natural
lists. and each costing about $4,000
year-to search for different species
and varieties in different parts of the
world. He has two acres of the plants
under glass, and his total annual ex-
penditure on orchids is nearly $780,
900.
To prove that DR.. Koch's comma
bacillus is not the cause of cholera,
and that the vomit of cholera patients
is not infectious, a French physician
has swallowed some pills made from
the vomit of Il person who died from
cholera. He was only slightly affect
ed, if at all, but two guinea pigs and
dog which were inoculated with the
same yomit succumbed ut once.
In communication to the French
Academy of Science, Mons. A. III. de
Nilleneuve has urged the Importance
of using distilled water for drinking
purposes, and has suggested that the
cost may be greatly reduced by using
that Obtainable from steam engines
He asserts that it is not unpalatable
and contains sufficient air, while the
absence of lime salts is an advantage
A German eXpermenter, Prof. r.
Wollny, has found that soil covered
with living herbage or dead vegetable
matter is colder in summer and warmer
in winter than bare soil under other
wise similar conditions. The differ
ence of temperature is greatest in sum-
mer and least in spring and autumn.
Bare soil heats more quickly in the
spring and cOOls more quickly in au-
tumn than that covered with living or
dead vegetable matter.
1t has been demonstrated bv DR..
Hans Molisch that the roots of plants
may be detected from their normal
direction by exposure on one side to
certain gases. If such gases are in
moderate quantities the roots bend
away from their source; if in larger
quantities, toward such source. The
side of the root exposed to the action
of the gas grows more strongly than
the other.
During last summer fifteen per ons
were killed in France by eating fungi
which were believed to be the edible
mushroom. The fungus eaten in some
of the cases was of kind which is or
dinarily wholesome, but which deyel
ops poisonous qualities under certain
conditions. In cooking common test
for poison is piece of silver, which
theory asserts will become blackened