The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-10-02
scINTILIATIoNs OF SCIENCE.
Curiosities and Discoveries in the World o,
Progress.

Curiosities and Discoveries in the World o.
Progress.
A properly developed. full-grown
man weighing 1874 pounds ought, ac-
cording to Prof. Huxley, to consume
daily 5000 grains of lean beefsteak,
5000 grains of bread, 1000 grains of
milk, 5000 grains of potatoes, 600
grains of butter and %, 300 grains of
water.
Tests have proved that one pound of
powder in small blasts will loosen
about ~ tons of rock, end in large
blasts about q tons. In a day of ten
hours one man can bore with a bit an
inch in diameter from SO to 100 inches
deep in granite, or from 800 to 400
inches in limestone.
A specimen of Ignite from the de-
posits of the Souris Valley, Manitoba,
gave on analysis the following result:
Carbon, 52.36 per cent; hydrogen,
3.52; oxygen and nitrogen, 18.47; sui
phur, 0.42; ash, 4.53, and water, 20. 20.
The color of the ash was buff. When
ignited a good flame was produced,
with intense heat.
Representatives of the Spanish Gov
eminent have recently visited Eng
land for the purpose of inspecting the
various establishments where large
guns are made. They have placed in
Sheffield an order for the plant neces-
sary for turning out forgings for the
heaviest possible ordnance. The
plant will cost at least $1,000, 900.
How to produce painless death in
the lower animals has been carefully
SfnNya1 Inv DR. w u p;ol,rlz- II.
seems at last to have succeeded in Sc
curing euthanasia for them. The ami
mails to be destroyed are placed in a
chamber into which is forced a cur
rent OF carbonic oxide passing at 80
deg. Fahrenheit over a mixture of
c%hloroform and carbon bisulphide.
Extinction of life is soon effected in
the chamber by the lethal nature of
its atmosphere SO brought about.
70 determine the vexed question
whether the level of the Baltic was
rising or sinking, w~atermarks or
gauges were set up in 1850, renewed
about a century later, and finally re-
paired last year. At short, regular
intervals the gauges were Inspected,
and the readings carefully noted.
The records of 1874 years now show
beyond all cavil that while the Scandi-
navian coast has been steadily rising,
the southern l%ittoral of the Baltic has
been steadily sinking. Since 1850 the
coast of Sweden has been upheaved
on an average nearly tifty-six inches.
No change has been perccptible on o
line which passes from the Swedish
coast over Bornholm and Laland TO
the Schleswigg-Holstei shore.
At the late meeting of the Associa-
ted Swiss Societies at Berne, M. Null
haupt suggested the formation of an
international geographical bureau for
the purpose, first, of carrying out the
resolutions arrived at by International
geographical congresses; second, of
making exchanges every month, or
oftener if need be, between the eighty
odd geographical societies; and, third,
of publishing in the four or five princi-
pal languages a summary of the con-
tents of the publications of the various
| geographical societies. He further
proposes that the expenses be shared
by the many societies which would be
benefited by the execution of the pro-
ject.
Dumont's sewerage scheme forParis
contemplates the construction of a
drain about one hundred miles long
from the city to a covered reservoir be-
low Herblay, on the right bank of the
Seine, and between Dieppe and Ire
part, and the establishment of pump
ing stations at Eragny and S%erifon-
tame. 1t is estimated that for nine
months in the year, almost the whole
OF the sewage will be taken up by irri-
CATION. The entire cost of construc-
ton is expected to be moi more than
$4,000 600, and it is ANTICIPATED that
the maintenance of the pumping sta
tions will be fully secured by the Sales
of sewage for irrigation purposes.
Only during one-quaIter of the year
will much of the waste of the French
capital reach the sea at all.
A new form of apparatus for deter
mining the compressibility of water
has been exhibited by Prof. TAFT be-
fore the Royal Society, Edinburgh.
Instead of measuring the compression
caused by a given pressure he now
measures the pressure required to
produce a given compression. His
new arrangement allows him to make
any number of measurements in rapid
succession at any one Temperatures;
and then the temperature can be
raised and corresponding measure
ments made without once opening the
compression apparatus. Experiments
which formerly would have taken
weeks for their completion could now
be accomplished in an afternoon. He
hopes to demonstrate, as soon as he
has a practical working specimen of
his invention at his command, that
the diminution of compressibility at
higher pressure becomes less at higher
temperatures, and may even become
an increase for the first few hundred
atmospheres' pressure.