The Savannah tribune. [volume] (Savannah [Ga.]) 1876-1960, 1888-11-24
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.

q After many years of labor, aJapanes.
Inventor has perfected lacquer for
hips bottoms.
= An electrical bulletin board is one OF
The latest devices. Thirty or forty in
atruments or boards may DO worked
ID from central office.
A single shad produces 100. 600 eggs,
md only about 5, 900 are Matched natur-
sally. BY the artificial method $4,000 are
cfsuccessfully Matched. No wonder this
y ism gets cheaper every year.
81 The fur of seals is concealed by a
xscoat .. stiff over-hair, which must be
y sslaboriously removed before the skin is
e ready FOR use. Seals from two to four
layears old have skins weighing from 81
TO ~ pounds, and three of these skins
& & are required for lady's sack.
VI The northwest wind, which formerly
e1prevaied in summer in America is now
1dry and hot, instead of moist and clam
AMY. Tho sallow compilations and worn
looks of few years ago have disap-
siapeared, and the malarious fever once SO
~S;dcommon has become quite rare.
b4 BY Injecting live steam into a tank,
ttDr. Edson's assistants have been able
Ito disinfcct clothing and bedding at
bctemperature of about 100 degrees, and
fothe goods came out of the tank unhurt,
anexcept that the colors in some kinds of
UNcloth are efaced or badly mixed.
th Professor Pickering of the Harvard
mgCollege observatory regards the So
called 'canals' of Mars as areas of veg.
e etatlon- possibly immense cultivated
attracts. The canals are usually some &c
THO $50 miles broad by 1000 or 5000
ttnniles long, and most of them appear in
beparallel pairs.
w Pixies Peak is IA, 100 feet, thus ex-
breeding, by more than 5000 feet, any in
ohEurope. But that is not the highest in
fagAmcrica, for on Mount Lincoln, in Col
!, Drado, there are mining works at an ele-
vi|Eation of IA, 297 feet, and at the same
bepOint meteorological station conducted
why Harvard College.
M DR.. Gamalea and his colleagues of
frlthe Psychological Station at Odessa,
lo.Russia, have become convinced that the
: cattle plague arises from the presence
Ijsnf bacteria, and that the application of
Che Pasteur system under slightly al
thu BRED conditions, would eventually
y, rove ef1icacious.
the "A BRIDGEPORT Conn inventive genius
eifltF perfected locomotive attachment,
san the nature of phone graph, whereby
mo cry blast of the whistle is recorded,
it Dgethcr with the exact time at which
thlt occurs. This is in tho interest of
= railway companies, to protect them
Tllgainst false repres entations by persons
meet with accident on the track.
- A curious method Of silk manufacture
4alEs said to exist in tho Chinese province
wipf Kwangtung, where are found wild
mallk worms feeding on tho camphor
4 9e. The full-grown caterpillar is cut
fen sen, and the silk is taken out in
Der firm resembling catgut, subjected to
piayrdening process and made into fish
ceeaagPses
according to the Naturforscher, Pro-
7 Pfssoy Pfuger and DR.. Tilanu, havo sue
pupded in cultivating, by Kochs
F1lthod, the bacteria which produce the
| uinosity OF sea fish. They have also
hssn able. to place them upon a glass
a5de, which. in the dark, appeared
ckly strewn with luminous points.
9dofassor van Haron Noman has sue
AnF a in photographing them.