The Baltimore County union., 1885-10-03
Correspondence Baltimore County Onion.
SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY.
ORDERS OF THE BODY.

ORDERS OF THE BODY.
In recent prize essay DIR. Monin has given an
interesting collection of facts and assertions con-
cerning the varying odors impaired to the human
body by the perspiration and the secretions of
the skin. keen faculty of recognizing differ
ences in the body odor has been known in some
individuals, although it is less common in civil
lized than in savage people, Cadet de Gassicourt
instances young lady who could distinguish
men from women simply by their odOrs, and
Hungarian monk claimed to be able to decide in
similar manner on the chastity of females
Alexander the Great, according to Plutarch, ex-
hailed an odor Of violets, and one of musk is said
to have been emitted by Malherbe, Cujas and
Haller. The ordinary skin odor is mentioned as
sulphurous and somewhat repulsive, although
brunettes are said to smell slightly of prussc acid
and blondes of musk. Fat people often have an
oily SMELL Age, race and nervous affections in
fuence the odor, and Burrows has even declared
that he would regard certain odor as positive
evidence of insanity. The smell of the breath is
Influenced by food and decomposing substances
in the body, and frequently by gases which have
been inhaled for a considerable time.
JUPIrER's GREAT SPOT.
The famous red spot which appeared on the
planet Jupiter in 1878, and after attracting uni
versal attention and perplexity for five years
faded almost entirely away, is reported by Mr..
Denning, an English astronomer, to be again be-
coming darker and more conspicuous. A search
of astronomical records has shown that this spot
is probably, identical with one seen by two OBJ
servers in 1s43. If such is the case, it must rep
sent some permanent Jovian feature of immense
size.
terrestrial TEMPERATURE.
In investigations now being carried on by the
German Government, shaft sunk in the earth is
found to be heated to 12O degrees at depth of
about 500 feet. If the temperature increases
regularly downward at this rate, the boiling point
of water should be reached at depth of about
two miles, and the melting point of platinum at
forty-five miles, From this calculation it is
thought that the earths crust cannot be more than
about one ninetieth of its radius.
PAsTEUR's SUCCESS.
Vast possibilities nave been suggested by the
success of Pasteur's method of protecting cattle
and sheep from anthrax by incubation with the
attenuated virus, as there seems to be no reason
for believing that may not similarly ward off
the attacks of other deadly contagious diseases of
man and beast. The efficacy of this system is
shown by the report just made by Belgian gov
ernment commission. Since the spring of 1888
msny..vaccinations have been performed at Havre
on farms where anthrax is constantly present, and
the Investigators have fully satisfied themselves
that Pasteur's method preserves both sheep and
cattle from the disease. Among thousand fully
grown cattle which have been vaccnated no case
Of anthrax has been observed, while the non-vac-
cinated have died as. usual. The protective in
fuence has lasted one year in ninety per cent. of
the young animals, while among all mature ami
mails the duration for each incubation is at least
two years.
LUNAR GEOGRAPHY.
The mountains and hollows on the moon which
have thus far been given names the maps of
astronomers are as follows Mountains-the Ap-
pennies, the Caucasus, the Cordilleras, the Rphae
Mountains, the Carpathians, the Hercynian
Mountains. Hollows or valleys-the Christian
Sea, the Sea of Fertility, the Sea of Nectar, the
Tranquil Sea, the Serene Sea, the Sea of Dreams,
the Sea of Death, the Dreamy Marsh, the Cold
Sea, the Sea of Vapors, the Middle Bay, the Sea
of Clouds, the Sea of Mist, the Bay of Epidemics,
the Stormy Ocean, the showery Sea, the Sea of
Rainbows, the Sea of Dews, Humboldts Sea.
MISCELLANEOUS.
According to Mr.. W. II. Harris unwholesome
food, defective ventilation and the diffusion of
poisonous germs produce among bees about the
same results as among the human family. A
common and very fatsl disease of the bees is
dysentery, due to imperfect ventilation and poor
winter food.
The sound of thunder, Palmieri finds, cannot
be heard more than thirteen miles, while lightning
may be perceived at a far greater distance. So.
called "harvest lightning" must come from dis
tant storm, as there can be no lightning without
rain and thunder.
Two French Investigators have found that the
electric resistance of most pure metals decreases
with lowering of temperature.
From time to time interesting archaeological
discoveries, illustrating the commerce and the
luxury of ancient Rome, have been made near
Monte Testacco. Colossal remains of great
emporium built about 200 B. C. still exist. In
1868 considerable portion of the quays was found,
with many blocks of fine marble, and now two
warehouses have been unearthed, one filled with
elephants tusks and the other with lents.
The first specimen of ArchaeOpteryx, the fossil
link between birds and reptiles, discovered in
Germany in 1860, and was sold to the British
Museum for $4,000. A second specimen, more
perfect, was secured a few years ago. and was
finally sold to the Berlin Museum for about S5 900.
These fossils have afforded a strong argument to
supporters of the Darwinian theory of develop
ment.
In some cases, cocaine, the new local anaesthetic
has proven an effective remedy for hay fever.
Capt. Traut, British navigator, was surprised
to find that an iceberg encountered in the Atlantic
on July 10th exerted no appreciable influence on
the temperature of the surrounding water, the
thermometer standing at about 81 degrees for
several miles on either side of the immense ice
mass and within few hundred feet of it.
Trouble About Grants Book.