The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-06-09
SCRAPS OF SCIENCE.

A young German chemist has kept
blood unCongealed for many days by
coating the inside Of Its receptacle with
oil,
By new German process finely divided
tin Is pfeCipitated upon textile fabrics,
giving flexible and brilliant coating.
A study Of $50 Italian thunder.storms
has shown Signor Ferria that every
thunderstorm Is behind depression Of
barometer and hydrometer, and before one
OF the thermometer.
The proportions OF the different colors
in eyes among the people Of Italy Is thus
estimated by Professor Mantegazza: Black
eyes, % percent; chentnut, o.; blue, II |;
and gray eyes, 3 percent.
Mentho Is now used as local anas.
thetiC In place OF cocaine. It's effects last
from fifteen to fifty minutes. II Is used In
20 to so percent in alcoholic or olOaginous
solution for the nose, 10 percent for the
mouth, and weaker for the eyes.
Leaves Of larch, which had been rolled
into balls-the largest more than foot In
diameter-by the whirling motion OF
water, have just been exhibited before the
Berne Natnralists' Society. Such balls,
free from Cementing mud, arc formed Ia
certain Swiss lakes, and In other places
are produced from various plants.
Angle worms, fish, ETC., are often caught
up ihto the clouds by revolving storms,
and then dropped again many miles from
the place where they were taken up
Small fish have often been found In pud.
dies Of water In village streets, 10 the
astonishmBnt Of people who we're unaC.
qualnted With the phenomenon.
From an examination Of several skulls
found In North and South America, and
believed to have belonged 10 inhabitants
living before the glacial period, DR.. Kohl.
man concludes that the races OF that
ancient epoch are those Of to-day, the
same Cranial and facial forms being found,
In spite Of lapse oil time and change Of en-.
vifonmenL
Captain II. Toynbee, OF the London
Meteorological Society, has arrived at the
conclusion that clouds oil less than 1000
feet In thickness are seldom aCCompan.
led by rain and II they are 1t ls very gen.
lie, consisting Of minute drops. With q
thickness OF between 1000 and 1000 feet
the size OF the drops Ia moderate. With
increasing thickness comes increasing size
Of the drops, and Of the same time their
Temperature becomes lower, until, when
the thickness ls greater than 9,0O0 feet,
hail 10 produced.
The meteofltes that fall Upon the earth
are composed chiefly Of iron. slgnor BON.
biCCi suggests an explanation Of this. The
earth 10 big magnet, 90 shown by the
proceedings Of bar oil steel freely stis.
pended aud accurately balanced on lie
centre. IIombiCcl's Idea 10 that this biz
terrestrial magnet, when rushing through
space containing ineteorlC particles, exefta
d seleCtlve attraction ior those which are
ienuginous, The fact thAtso many masses
OF meteorlu iron have been found In the
arctic regions, 90 far as 1t goes, supports
this theory.
within the last few years some atten.
ton hae been given 10 the dlSeases which
are directly tfaCeable 10 the inhalation 81
Ait charged with PARTICLES Of dust. II ID
well that preventive measures should DO
taken In order 10 insure protection Il
wofkmen against the injurious elects o.
dust. The alt In workshops should be re-
newed three times an hour. The intro.
ductlon Of fresh air and the expulsion o.
the alt In the room will very materially