Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-05-24
POPULAR SCIENCE.

A German physiologst, who has been
making experiments on "a large butch
er's dog" declares that beer retards di-
gestion more than wine containing the
same quantity Of alcohol.
An English physician, DR.. David
Young, VINO has practiced medicine in IT.
ally fifteen years, declares that Rome is
one OF tue healthiest OF Europeon cities
for the foreign visitor who takes suitable
precautions.
In report OF Royal Institution meet
ing, the AthenGum says: CDR. Higgins
reported that TWO comets, at present fee
bly, seen, would most probably be exceed
lngly brilliant in April next" The no.
tlce does Estate what comets they are.
Speaking of the greatest of American
botanists, be Gardeners Chronicle, Lon
don, says: "Englsh botanists claim Asa
Gray as one of themselves, despite the ac-
cldent OF his birth on the other side of the
Atlantic, and be is held in as great esteem
here as in the land of his BIRTH"
The scientific committee of the Royal
horticultural Society of England has re-
Gently expressed the opinion that a
larger product can be obtained by plant
ing whole potatoes as seen, rather than by
cutting them up into pieces, each con-
tanning an ''eye' as 1t IS called.
We learn from the Lancet that the st.
Petersburg Medical Society established
two additional stations for the micro
scopal examination of pork in that city,
just before the holidays. This precautiOn
was taken because the consumption OF
pork and ham is unusually large there
during the holiday seasons.
1t seems strange to read that a soon
vlvial gathering" was held at the town OF
M Inr I.,,
the one hundred and tiftieth anniversary
OF the birth of James Watt, the great en-.
gineer, while the day passed without any
particular notice Ofthe event in GreenOck,
scotland, where he was born.
The French are taking to cider making.
The apple CROP last year in Normandy
and Brittany was enormous, and much OF
the fruit was sent to Paris to be made into
cider. 1t is believed that this will drive
out of market the adulterated wines
haze been the subject OF so much scientific
investigation and condemnation.
The English newspapers announce that
the Government of India has granted "a
native village in perpetuity'' to Kishen
Singh, native explorer, in recognition
Of the services he has rendered to geOgra-
phical science by his surveys in the TIL
bet region of Central Asia, in the course
of which he travelled 5000 miles, mostly
through wholly new country.
One of the great difficulties which
French and English wheat growers are
trying to overcome is the lack of Sufli-
cent Stiffness in the straw Of good wheat
The varieties with stiff straw usual Y
yield an inferior grain. while the best
grain grows on stalks which are beaten
down to the earth by an ordinary storm.
The problem is now receiving much at
tention from scientific agriculturists IN
France. oc1
There has recently been such pest Of
mosquitoes in the City of Mexico and its
neighbOrhOod that a local medical society
has investigated the practicability Of
averting such insect invasion in the lu-
ture. That society was informed that
children had been killed by mosquito
bites, statement which may well be
doubted. This visitation is ascribed to
the presence OF so many lakes and un-
drained marshes in the valley in which
the Mexican capital is situated.
Maj. Gen. f. f. Burton, who has seen
over 40years' service in India, gives a
curious description of hornet whose mes
is sometimes mistaken for a sunflOwer.
1.-The species-a large, bright yellow in.
sect, with ferociOus sting-cOnstructs Its
nest, which is large, and of the size and
shape OF good big sunflOwer, on some
strong projecting twig OF an evergreen
bush, and when the nest is completed
the whole community dispose them selves
in regular circle on it, with all their heads
to the centre; thus they look like the
spokes Of a yellow wheel or like a sun
foWero