The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1888-07-05
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS

NJ. Jansen, the French physicist, con
sidcrs the camera valuable addition to
the instruments Of the meteorologist.
Bournem outh, England, spriakles its
streets with scawater, and finds that
they keep moist just three times as long
as when fresh water was usei.
The "sca Of down" of early morning,
caused by the clouds, undergoes interest
ing changes through the action Of air
currents set in motion by the sun.
The British naval armoret, twiu
screw, double turret ram Nile, which
was recently launched at the Pembroke,
South Wales, dockyard, is to be lighted
by about 500 incandescent and four
large search lights.
In some experiments with ozone as a
curative agent, an English lady, so far
advanced in consumption that her case
appeared hopeless has been treated with
inhalations Of this gas with curative re
SUITS described as marvellous.
Many comets, of course, eIude dls-
covery, but the number of those de,
tccted has greatly increased during re
cent years, having been only fourteen IL
the decade of 1927 to 1886, and forty
nine in the decade 1877 to 1886.
An enthusiastic Englishman, Lord
Thurlow, is said to have recently ex-
pressed the conviction that IN six years
time there will not be a gas lamp in the
streets of any town in England, and
that electric light would be the univer-
sal illuminant.
Au argument against allowing chill
dren to drink milk in the summer time
is drawn by Dr. Y. c. Vaughn, Of th'
University of Michigan, from the liabil
ity of the fluid to develop the poison
tyrotox1con-whichi is supposed to be tn
immed late cause Of summer diarrhPa.
In concluding paper in Science upol
the question whether forests influence
rainfall or not, Henry Gannett says
'It seems idle to discuss further the in
fuence of forests upon rainfall from HI
economic point Of view, as it is evident
ly tooslight to be of the least practica
importance. Man has not yet invented
method of controlling rainfall"
The theory that the increased brittle
of oHy in
years is the result of an increased pei
centage of inorganic salts, Is contra
dicted by the experiments CT Mr.. Mas on
From determinations of the ash j
LINES Of fifty subjects of different ages
he has found that after reaching man
hood no variation in the quantity of as
takes place with increasing age.
DR.. Juncman, an Austrian chemist
claims to have invented fluid of mos
destructive properties. This fluid
when brought int contact with the al
after the explosion of she'll in which
it had been contained, is transforme
into a gas which, being heavier tha
the air, decends to the ground, knIln
all men and animals within its reach
and, moreover, destroying iron, bronze
and other metals, as we'll as setting a
infammable things on fire.
The highest peaks in northeE
Europe, with their heights i'll feet frol
the latest determinations, are thus give
by Professor Mohn Galdhoppigen; 8out
Norway, $500; Glitter Tind, 1919; Sn'
haettcn, 1866; OraefajOkull, 6427; Sui
teIma, Northern Norway, G178; Pete
mann's Spite, East Greenland, II, All
Beorenburg, Jan Mayen, $3.50; Moul
Misery, Bear Island, 1885; Hornsun
Tind, Spitzbergen, 1850; Richthofe
Mount, Franz Joseph Land, 5184.