The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-01-11
POPULAR SCIENCE,

A kind of telephone which fixes the
spoken words on chemically prepared
paper has been produced by two young
electricians of Munich.
A broken pipe has interrupted the
British Royal Society's boring in the Nile
delta. At a depth of 324 feet-or 220
feet below seq leyel-the solid rock is
still untouched
When neuralgia comes feeling around,
and you have tooth that begins to feel
as though spring chicken was digging
away at its roots, it is time to pullet out.
-.tmericna artisan.
Thomas w. Malone, IN old steamboat,
man, of Gallipolis, o., has invented a
machine which he claims will solve the
problem of perpetual motion. 1t is con
structed on the principle of the inertia
of centrifugal force.
DR.. John Ashurst, ,Tr., says that in
opening fclon the parts to be avoided
arc lines of the arteries and that Of the
iIexcr tendon, which is the medium line.
The felon should be opened midway be
tween the artery and tendcn. II
necessary, it can be opened on bott
sides. II the sheath of the tendon be
opened the tendon will almost always
slough, and The fingers will be useless.
Green wood is easier chopped than
dry wood. But the forehanded man
will chcp the green wood while 1t is
green and have 1t seasoned afterward.
Stove wood seasons rapidly when it is in
q dry, airy place. Though the wood
must be burned as cut, it is the more
economical 10 choose the dry wood. The
extra labor required for its cutting will
be more than we'll paid for by the greater
heat from its combustion, not to speak
of the time lost in getting green wood
to burn.
The highest peaks in Northern Eu-
rope, with their height il feet from the
latest determinations, are thus given by
Professor Mohn: Galdhoppigen, South
Norwalk, $3.50; Glitter Tind. 1879;
Snehaetten. 1856; Oraefajokull, GAIT;
Sulitclma Northern Norway, 6,17S; Pc
termapn's Spite, East Greenland, H.
AIS; Beerenburg, Jan Mayen, $3.50;
Mount Misery, Bear Island, ,7S5; Horn
sund Tind, Spitzbergen, 4,5GO; Richtho-
fen Mount, Franz Josef Land, 5,1S4.
Two CT these peaks-Oracfajokull and
Bcerenburg--are volcanic.
A need of the times is primary bat
terry that shall yield electric light for or
dinary homes, This want and the prob
lem of meeting it were considered by Mr..
p. +. Nurscy at o late meeting of the
British Society OF Engineers. Describ-
ing few of.thc chief forms of primary
batteries, he mentioned that some of
them had gwen fairly G od results in
mansions or large establishments, but
that evidence was lacking to show that
any could be made cheap and efficient for
general domestic lighting. Most of the
batteries have special merits, and he rec
commended submitting them all to COM
mittce of experts, in the hope that the
leading features might be combined i'll q
system more satisfactory than could be
otherwise secured.
The empire on which the sun never
sets necessarily shows some variety OF
climate These interesting extremes are
derived from summary Of weather OBJ.
servation in 1886 at sixteen British STA
lions scattered over the globe: Adclaide
had the highest maximum temperature in
the shade, viz, IRA; the highest tenn
perature in the sun, 1i4.5; the least
rainfall, 14.12 Inches, and the lowest
humidity, SO per cent. Winnipeg had
the lowest shade temperature, 44.6; the
lowest annual range, 1875, and the low
est mean daily temperature, 332. Colon
DO (Ceylon) had the highest mean daily
temperature, 81. Bombay had the great
est rainfall, 99.74 inches. London was
distinguished for the greatest dampness,
so Der cent.