The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-08-06
POPULAR SCIENCE.

About 100000 people die every
year, or nearly sixty minute.
1t is estimated that the sun raises 81, 4
600, 900, 900 tons of water from the earth
to the minute.
1t is proposed to apply electricity to
the irrigation of some of the dry and
sterile districts Of California.
NJ. Lavasseur finds that the chances Of
person in the nineteenth century reach.
ing 100 years of age are one in 18, 800.
A room is ventilated best by opening
the upper sash of window, because the
hottest and worst air is always near the
ceiling. /
If the salt held in solution in the ocean
were spread over the earth, it would form
a layer of more than thirty feet deep COW
ering the whole globe.
The ratio of suicides is large in North!
ern and small in Southern nations OF
Europe. The same holds good of the
States Of the United States.
The experimental telephone line be-
tween Paris and Calais, in France, has
proved success. Another line will soon
be constructed between Paris and LON
don. -
The fact, as reported, that the German
Army has the lowest death rate of any In
Europe is attributed to the practice Of
frequent bathing in warm water being
made compulsory.
An electric hair curler is new and
convenient instrument. It Is said to be-
equal to the most exacting demands Of
the feminine coifure, and the beard or
mustache can be curled in any style In
two minutes.
Photographs of seventy EIGHT old
couples and the same number of pictures
of brothers and sisters of similar age ara
said to show that the former are more
like one another in appearance than tha
brothers and sisters. =
A Virginia artillery company has been
using cheese in target practice, land it waa
shown that one of the cheeses fired
against On earthen breastwork pene-
trated two feet further than solid iron
ball. They carry at point-blank range
further than shot or shell. j.
From August, 1889, to January, 1890,
there were treated at the Pasteur In
stitute in Paris $50 cases of persons bitten.
by rabid animals, with but one death.
Under the old methods of treatment, or
without any treatment, the mortality in
this number of cases would have been
ITO deaths.
The New Crater, as it is called at
Mammoth Hot Springs, Wyoming, has
had an eruption, and is throwing up q
column of steam, stones and water about
200 feet in circumference to the height
of about 125 feet. An earthquake pre-
ceded the eruption and the whole basin
is shaken by it.
Of the entire human race 500, 100000
are we'll clothed-that is, they wear gar!
ments of some kind to cover nakedness
$50, 900, 900 habitually go naked, and
700, 900, 900 only cover parts of the bodyi
500, 900, 900 live in houses, 700, 900, ,000
in huts and caves, and 250,000,00C
virtually have no shelter.
The growing together of the middle
and end bones of the little toe is of fire.
quent occurrence, and has been attri.
buted to tight shoes. A German anato.
mist, however, finds about the same per.
centage of cases in men and children as in
women, and concludes that the phe.
nomenon is a normal tendency to change
Of structure just beginning before ou
eyes.
By saturating bullets with vaseline
they may be easily seen in their course
from rifle to the target; their trajectory
course is marked by beautiful ring Of
smoke, caused by the vaseline being
ignited on leaving the muzzle of the gun,
the smoke being suspended for some
time in the air if not too windy. Much
better scores result when grease of some
kind is used, bullets are not so apt to
split, the recoil is not so great, and it is
believed the course of the missile is more
true.