The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-11-14

Myopia may be alluded to as q species
of seasicknesS. - -

Myopia may be alluded to as . species
of seasickness. ... to-
The latest remedy for snake bites Is
wash of carbolic acid solution.
Philadelphia is to have another indus
trial school. The manual training sys-
tenn is very popular in that city.
An able-bodied female oyster thinks
producing 5000, 900 eggs is only fair
seasons work, when she is feeling we'll.
According to Professor 81. C. Fernald,
the boror in ounce is the same as that
In the apple tree, and should be de-
stroyed in the same manner.
The experiment of exploding shells
between decks has been tried in the ship
Resistance. She is said to be complete
wreck internally from the repeated ex-
plosions.
Yellow fever makes its first appearance
by pain above the eyes, and the victim
is blisslully ignorant whether he is going
to have sick headache or the deadly
epidemic.
Cxalate of cerium, recognized pallia-
tive for nausea, is said to be helpful in
cases of seasickness when taken IN doses
of ten or twenty grains every two or
three hours.
German savants have been discussing
the duration of dreams. They conclude
that, while most dreams are momentary,
they may be extended sometimes to the
length of minute.
DR.. Jastrow, of the University of Wis
consin, proves that the ear is the dominant
organ of the mind in some persons and
the eye in others. Feople are therefore
either ear-minded or eye-minded. Dogs
are usually nose-minded.
A vast bed of borate of lime has been
discovered in Curry County, Oregon,
near the coast. The borate Of lime is
the crude state of borax. This deposit
is said to be half mile long, TWO hun
dred feet wide and thirty feet deep.
Professor Emmens, the inventor of
the new blasting powder called emmen-
site, is connected with the College Of
New York, in the city of New York.
This new explosive has eight times the
force of gunpowder and makes scarcely
any smoke. 1t is now being made up
into cartridges for blasting and also for
guns.
Arecent writer on the origin of the
horse traces the wild horse through
tradition to Central Asia, as the original
home of the horse, while our Mexican
mustang and broncho are defendants OF
domesticated horse, introduced from
Europe. The date is given as the land
ing of the first horse in America, at
Buenos Ayres, 1887.
Rule for finding the superficial feet Of
steampipe required to heat any building
with steam: One superficial foot Of
steam pipe to six superficial feet OF glass
in the windows, or one superficial foot
of steampipe to every hundred square
feet of wall, roof or ceiling, or one
square foot of steampipe to eighty cubic
feet of space. One.horse power boiler
is sufficient for 10000 cubic feet OF
space.
There is, as Professor Thompson
remarks, no assignable ''velocity OF
electricity" as this must vary with the
current and conductor. Wheatstone, in
1883, seemed 10 show a transmits ion
velocity of 1888, ,ODO miles a second
through copper wire; but in late expert
menti signals were sent over ordinary
telegraph wires on poles, and had rate
of only IA, 900 to IL, 900 miles. with
wires near the earth, the velocity was
10, 900 miles, but reached "a, 900 on very
f, high wires.