The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1888-10-11

Natural gas is beng used for great
variety Of unrposes


variety Of purposes.
A Spanish astronomer thinks he has
seen 1t snow in the moon.
II is very injurious to eat cologne on
sugar to brighten the eyes.
NJ. Rabiana, a French scientist, claims
to have discovered organs of sight in the
vegetable growth called pandorina.
James Walack, an Australian en-
gineer, is at work upon steamship
which he says will make sixty miles an
hour.
England claims the largest electric
light in the world. IL is in the light.
house at 1T. GATHERINGS, and its capacity
is 60, 900 candle power.
Some people are inouiring why VI.
Pasteur, the originator of innocuation
for rabies, does not devote his attention
to studying yellow fever germs.
A late invention of Thomas A. Edison
is an electrical meter by which the low
of electricity can he measured with as
much ease rs gas now is by II gas meter.
The editor of the Die Berolierug, Ger.
man, estimates the population of the
world to be ABA, 900, 000. NJ. lcvasscur,
French, puts it at 1, 4s3, 600, 900, Il differ
encc of $4,000, 900.
Tobacco, being narcotic, naturally
benumbs the nerves. When the nerves
are thus benumOcd people do not see as
distinctly, and this effectiveness of vision
tends to increase and become permanent.
French physicians are reporting great
success with the prompt internal use OF
antiscptics in cases of typhoid fever.
After disinfcction Of the intestines, az
cording to this method, the disease runs
short course.
DIR. Ioungcr's plan of implanting
natural teeth in place of those lost has
| proven less successful than was hoped aS
the roots gradually undergo absorption,
! causing the teeth to loosen and fall out
/ after a year or two.
A curious fact revealed by the phono-
! graph is that people generally do not
know their own voices. The husband
will recognize his wifc's voice in a
/ rhonogram, and the wife will recognize
the husbands, but neither Will recognize
their own speech.
The Brazilian pottery tree contains so
large an amount of silica that the bar X
is much used Tor pottery -making. The
ashes of the bark are mixed with clay
in varying proportion, producing n
superior and very durable ware The
flesh bark cuts like soft grind,tonc.
Professor Pickering, of the Harvard
College observatory, regards the so called
canals Of Mars us areas of vegetation
possibly immense cultivated tracts. The
canals are usually some 80 to 100 miles
broad by 1000 to 5000 miles ling. and
most of them appear in parallel pairs.
At the Council of Electricians. an c5-
sayist stated that IN alternating current
is more likely to destroy lite than d
direct current of double or triple tho
strength. The number of volts by which
the alternating current is usually meas
ured is no criterion in regard to its
dangerousncss.
a specimen of volcanic ash collected
recently on the coast of Ecuador, Soutl
America, l2O miles from CotopaXi ha'
been analyled. The ash fell IN July
1885, and formed deposit to the dcptl
of several inches. The interesting fcatur,
in the composition of the material wa
the presence of small amount of silver
probably as silver chloride; the result o
several experiments showed that siive
was present to the extent Of one part il
5000 of ash. This is believed To b.
the first instance in which silver Ia
been identified in material elected fron
volcano.