Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-06-04

clusters of small crystals had shot
out IN fractured portion of the vein.
This is quoted to prove that metals
grow, like wood and other products
of the earth.
Following is recent analysis of
the water of the dead sea: Total res
idue, $1,000 grains per gallon; cal
cium carbonate, 20; calcium sulphate
1888 magnesium nitrate, IT'S. OF !;
potassium chloride, 1,0S9.06; calcium
chloride, 594 40; magnesium chlori>
de, 594. 40; magnesium chloride, 1855
21; magnesium bromide, 345. so; iron
and aluminium oxides, 1880; organic
matter. water Of crystallization and
loss, 317.57.
At the Academy Of Medicine in Ire
land description was recently given
of lioness in the Geological Garden
who was found one morning TO have
eaten off six inches of her tail. In
two more meals she had completely
disposed of that apendage, and had
commenced on her forepaws. The
animal was destroyed ''for fear she
would eat herself up" The cause of
the trouble was thought to be hysteris
of kind similar to that which cause
women to bite their nails.
The grandson of the poet Goethe,
with whose death the family name
becomes extinct, possessed all the rare
and wonderful art collection which his
grandfather had accumulated, and It
was the one care of his life to tend
them and watch over them. Indeed,
he carried his affection to The most
morbid linaits, for he would not allow
strangers to gaze upon the holy
relics; they wee too sacred for the
common view. It Is thought they
will now be scattered-the mores the
pity.
The number of stars visible to the
naked eye is commonly greatly over.
estimated. Let one begin TO count
the stars and the false impression is
soon dispelled. The whole number
OF the stars down to those Of the fifth
magnitude inclusive, is hardly more
than 1, 500. Stars of the sixth mag
nitude are, the tiniest specks Of light,
visible only in favorable state OF
the atmosphere, and these included
will not bring the count much above.
4, 900, except for persons who have ex-
traOrdlnary keeness of sight.
A gentleman in G ermantown, Pa.
who was greately annoyed by a coll
ony of sparrows that had taken up
their quarters in a mass of ivy cover
ing one side of his house, got rid of
them by a novel expedient. One day
he purchased half pound of red pep
per, and, going up to the third story,
opened the windows and sifted the
pepper down through the IVY. The
alarm Of the sparrows was evinced
by the haste with which they left their
hiding places. Every bird took its
departure, and his premises are now
clear of them.
The white color of arctic mammals
and birds has hitherto been ascribed
to protective resemblance, the adapta-
ton to a snOw-covered country being
attributed TO the preservation Of indi-
viduals, which, by assimilating their
surroundings in color, either escaped
detection by their foes or were enabled
to secure their prey more advantage
ously. A writer in Nature, however,
SCOTS at this explanation, and points
out that white, tee worst absorber, is
also the worst radiator Of all forms
OF radiant energy, so that warm
blOoded creatures thus clad are better
able to withstand the severity Of an
arctic climate.