Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-12-11

What thc S"arci"rs Into Science Find
Tor ihe People.

tented ana thrive better on a new
than al Old range. Frequent change
OF range tor them is important at this
season Of the year.
Ang0ra goats, which produce the
mohair of trade, are being introduced
to some extent III the West and South.
They have been bred in California
nearly forty years.
According to Engineering, a German
chemist and mctallurgist, DR.. Kes-
mann, strongly recommends the use
of treacle for forming small coal and
fine ore into solid briQuettes, as first
proposed by Saltnry. a mixture of l
to IL per cent. Of treacle was sufficient
TO make coal dust Of very lean Silesian
coal into good sofia blocks which gave
a strong coke. Such blocks are also
excellent for ~gaS-making. In a SINH
lar name blocks can be made of any
powdery iron ore such as some mag
netic ores and pyrites residues.
The Berlin Academy Of Sciences
did not allow any German feeling
against the French to lessen their
praise Of Mons. Chevreul, the distin-
guished chemist, in the message which
they sent him on attaining the age of
one hundred years. I'VE hold" they
said, THAT your name should be in
scribed in n OF the first places on the
list of the great meu who have carried
the scientific glory Of France to
the extremitics OF the earth" The
communication commended his work
In m~ineralogical ami animal chemistry
and hygiene, as well as his more cele-
brated achievements in the investiga-
ton Of colors.
A Spanish shepherd, killed by light
ming recently, WAS the subject of a
scientific post norton TO discover how
the electric bolt had done It's fatal
work. His eyebrows and eyelashes
were burned of, his eyebaiis were dried
up, all his left side vas scorched and
burned in spots down TO the ankle,
while the right side Of the body and
right leg were unlnIured. Serious as
those injuries were, none Of them APP
peared sufficient TO have caused his
instant death. But as o o As the
breast was opened the cause of death
was apparent. The lungs were fright
fully ~congested, and the heart was
enormously dilated and filed with
~coa9ulated blood. With all this dam
age TO the man his clothes were very
little injured, the only traces of light
ming OF it being a small hole bored
through the rim Of the hat, and a
slight singing of the Shirt collar.
An interesting description Of the
Amiltas tree of India, a species of
cassia, is furnished to the Gardeners
Chronicle by DR.. +. Bonavia, of
EtaWah, who says that when in full
bloom it is one Of the sights of the
British Indian fora. One specially
striking variety has leaves of maroon
blOilLO hNNNy NV o''iiS, oib IllC
leaves Of all the older trees are green.
The blossoms are yellowstone a
bright canary color, others paler. The
fruit is a long cylinirlcll dropping pod,
containing a sticky pulp from which a
cathartic medicine is made. THE
world is secured" says the writer, " for
some rare insignificant orchid, and
special houses are made for these
quaint plants, aud here Is a tree grown
from the seed with the greatest ease,
and which when in Hover no orchid
could approach for Splendor and pro-
fusion of bloom and is nothing thought
of. When in full flower it is a perfect
cascade Of canary yellow spray" The
doctor adds that n avenue OF Amiltas
in bloom would ba worth a trip from
any part of the world TO see.
The effect of lightning in vitrifying
rocky material AMI producing what is
known as lightning holes is made the
subject Of an interesting paper by
IIOl. JDluu, p'iDilS'ltNi IA Uilt OSS
de Genere. He and other investigators
| have found these holes in the High
Alps at heights OF from 1909 to 1900
feet above the sea level. Usually they
are found on SUBMITS. Sometimes the
rocky mass which has been vitriiied by
the electric fluid presents the appear
ance Of small scattered pearls, some
times of q series OF semi-Spherical cavi-
ties only a few miiliurtnrs III diameter.
Sometimes there are vitriiied rays going
out from n central point TO a distance
| of four or five inches. Sometimes q
block detached from the mass appears
to have been bored through by a cannon
ball, the passage being quite vitriiied
| The thickness OF this vitriCed coating
or stratum never exceeds a millimeter,
and is sometimes not more than a
quarter of that depth. The varying
| colors which it presents depend upon
| the qualities ana composition OF the
rock. The same may be said of its
transparency. On the Rungiischorn
the glass formed by the lightning is
black, owing to the quantity of actino-
| 18th which the rock contains. Ii Is
l huo..o ~ r, nina4fa tha rnoL cap-