The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1889-11-14

A Cincinnati scientist thinks that n
Ave years all the telegraph wires win b
made of aluminium.
In the recent autumn manmuvers in
Germany the fortifying Of an intrenched
position with barbed wire fencing was
found TO be very efiicacious.
Voightlandor, n famous optician. OF
Germany, perfected a new lens which
gives a very wide angle, working with .
large aperture. This invention makes i.
possible to use the lens in very confined
situations, such as rooms, for groups, OF
single portraits. 6
Tho Geological Society Of London ha
just receive white peacock. This bir,
preserves the markings which distinguish
the species, particularly the large eye.
like spots on the tail fcathnes. The effect
Of these spots is most remarkable. The,
are exactly like the pattern ON u damasr
tablecloth.
A new candle has been brought ou
which extinguishes itself in an hout
This it does by means of an extingusht'
Of tin which is fastened in the wax bs
wires and which efTcctually performs IL
task. 1t is only necessary to remove Tn !,
diminutive extinguisher when its wort
is done, and the candle is again ready o
burn another hour.
Professor Hazen of the Signal Off
Tho has been stopping on the mountan
believes that he has found the eXplanatiSt
nf fh. ~, ..uly,tttr ..rN
on top of Mount Washington. His id
is that the great guifs below compresst
atmosphere, which, seeking an outl,-
rushcs up the sides of Mount Washingt I,
and sweeps over its summit.
A correspondent of Forest and Str1
reports observing true Southern nj |
ing bird rs far north as forty degVA
north latitude. That queer marine ~,
NAL. tho Portuguese man.of- war, vs.
found last summer 1000 miles or mt
north of the seas it is usually confined :
The invasion Of this zonc by the trop
is a peculiar feature of the year. y
DR.. Armaur Hansen, NorwegN
savant, recently visited this country, n
in Wisconsin and Minnesota examine,
number Of lepers who had emigrai
from Norway He arrived at the inb
esting result that of 100 of such emigra
the offspring had remained free to
third generation. This. the author -
lieves, shows cmphatically that leprv<
is not hereditary disease.
In all of the London streets which f.
lighted by electricity the gas-lamps hd
been retained ready for immediate u !
Whenever the slightest interruption
ours in the electric lighting the police
duty Immediately proceed to light all -
gas clamps. The gas thus consumed
charged to the clcctric.light compans=
and deducted from the rental paid by
city for the use of its lights.
An Austrian savant has obtained IN
vest of 1000 sponges which are the res
of an experiment of literally sowing sn,.l
parts of living sponges in soil favora
to their production. The Austrian Ges
ernment is much pleased with the cNpoi
ment, which is to be repeated on a la
scale in Dalmatia. The cost of the iOT
which have been growing for the -
three years, is II little over S55, eve
thing included. W
The belief that smoke from soft c
may have beneficial sanitary effects N,
gaining ground. 1t is claimed that W
sulphur in the coal when burned beco,
sulphurous acid gas, II we'll known di
fectant. Further, that creosote and
allied products are thrown off with fu
of bituminous coal, and that an attn
phere charged with carbolic acid must
freer from germs of disease than IN
parently purer air.