The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1888-03-03
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.

i,orman I.ockyer, the English scicn-
list, claims to have discovered that the
origin OF the universe is found IN the
mcteoritc
The municipal gardeners OF Paris
raise 232 varieties Of apples in the or;
chard OF the Luxembourg Gardens. The
fruit is divided into three parts; the
finest specimens are sent to the Project
Of the Seine, the second part is given to
the Val-dc- erase Military Hospital and
the third is sold to the great Paris res
tauraGts.
The singular fact is demonstrated
that, while the most rapid cannon shots
scarcely attain Il velocity Of coo metres
a sccond-Oycr 1, 800 miles per hour
mcteoritcs are known TO penetrate the
air with a velocity of 10000, or even
60, 900 metres per second, velocity
which raises the air at once to a temper
ature of from 1000 to 1000 degrees
Cent.
Experiments with the diffusion pro-
cess" of extracting sugar from the cane,
which have recently been made in
Louisiana, are very encouraging to those
who believe in this mod, OF manu-
facture. 1t is claimed that by the diifu-
SION process almost all the sugar is eX-
tracted, and, on this account, that the
cane can be proiitably growa in this
country.
There have recently been discovered
in the high Alps, near the summit of
the great st. Bernard, five large granite
affairs aHd a number of other relics of
the stone age, such as axes, knives,
etc, used in pagan epochs for sacrifices.
Swiss writers emphasize the historical
importance of this discovery, in that it
is proof that Mt. Saint Bernard was a
place Of sacrifice ia pagan times, and
also that as tac back as the age Of stone
the Canton Valai, was inhabited by
human beings.
The plan for signaling accurate time
from scacoasts was first .adorted by.
Great Britain about thirty years ago.
That country has now on its coast, four
teen tin balls and five other time
signals, and its colonies and dependen-
cies have twenty-six timc-balls; Ger
many has seven time-balls; France, four
time-balls and two other signals; Swe-
den and Norway, Austria-EIungary,
Holland with Belgium, and the United
States, have five time balls each; Dem
mark has two; Spain and Portugal. one
each; I,aly, none.
Alfalfa, according to Prof Morrow,
endured the drought better than any
other fora re plant on the farm; OF the
University of Illinois, and red Clover
came next. or the trIc glasses orchard
grass was best for quicllEess of starting
after cutting or alter raia, aad for the
amount of food furnished whilc the
drought was at It's worst. Timothy vas
slow to start after cutting and dil not
respond readily to the rains. Blu grass
stopped growing first OF all the pasture
crlsse~, but On ..iy revived aft: mol
crate rails
The U.s. Of oil by vcssc's at sea for
soothing the wave, in time of storm. ap-
l,ears to DC on the point Of very cx,clded
AID practical application. 1t is stated
that 'sea breakers" appliances for the
distribution Of oil, have been pate2ted
both at home and abroad. and ar, used
by all cattc-carrying steamers and
some other vessels, while q spccia. oil IS
now manufactured for the purpose
The photographer OF the United States
has published within the last two years,
in pamphlet form, digtstcl from the
Monthly Plot Chart, list Of 120 au-
thcntlcatcd cases in which furious seas
were allayc1 By the use OF oil