The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-03-28
POPULAR SCIENCE.


eight to twelve ounces. 1t beats 100000
times in twenty tour hours,
The human skin contains more than
1000, 600 openings, which are the out
lets OF an equal number Of sweat glands.
A man breathes eighteen times a
minute, and 5000 cubic feet, or about
$50 hogsheads, of cir every hour of his
existence.
An English navigator at Santander, on
the north coast of Spain, has found the
sea waves in a prolonged and heavy gale
Of wind to be forty-two feet high and
3S6 feet long
a new eleetric-radiation meter, de-
pending on the elopgation of a fine
platinum wire, and so sensitive as to in
dictate an elongation of one fifty-millionth
OF an inch, has been exhibited to the
London Royal Society by W. C. Greg
DRY.
From an exhaustive study of the large
collection of meteorites at Harvard Col
lege, the conclusion has been arrived at
that many of the masses of meteoric iron
now known are cleavage crystals, broken
OFF, probably, by the impact of the mass
against the atmosphere.
The circle around tie moon, or lunar
rainbow, shows tine presence of moisture
in the air. Moisture at a high altitude
produces large bow and at a low alti-
tude small bow. The smaller the bow.
therefore, the nearer the moisture, and,
consequently, the sooner will the storm
develop.
Instead of hybrids being sterile. the
evidence is cumulative that sterile nv
birds are the exception. In plants more
sterility can be adduced in cases of IN
doubted species. The dwarf species of
Robinia, Robinia hispida or rose acacia;
is almost always sterile, and the we'll
known Chinese wistaria is sterile except
under special conditions, or in special
seasons.
The nitrate of lead is the cheapest dis
infectant known that fulflls its intent.
It is made by dissolving half a dram
of nitrate of lead in a pint of boil
ing water, then dissolve two drains of
common salt in eight or ten quarts Of
water. When both are thoroughly dis
solved pour the two mixtures together,
and when the sediment has settled YOU
have pail of clear fluid which is the
saturated solution of the chloride of
lead.
With the progress of science a whole
race of men has disappeared, the so
called 'wild men," in whose existence
the most learned firmly believed a few
decades ago, and who still live in the
imagination of many who are unac-
quainted with recent investigations. The
wild man was supposed to be a peculiar
creature, half man and half beast, form
ing the connecting link between the hu-
man species and the apes. The belief in
his existence is to be ascribed, without
doubt, to erroneous observations and re-
ports of travellers.
Great stress has lately been laid by the
best medical authorities on the impor-
lance Of looking well to the teeth of pa,
tients having a tubercular tendency, and
seeing that they keep their mouths in a
thoroughly healthy and aseptic condi-
ton. The fact has been established that
diseased roots and teeth have a great
deal to do in starting tubercular trouble
in the Emphatic glands of people pre-
disposed to this disease. Tubercle ba-
ella gaining admission TO the jaw
through the diseased teeth, speedily in
feet the structures in the neighborhood
Some twenty years ago Herr Fab, an
Austrian scientist, first suggested the
possibility that the moon may act
upon the great ocean of molten matter
beneath the earths crust exactly as it acts
in producing the tides of the external
Il eean of water. He now considers that
N ''Faity of such action is proven, and
- arth's crust IS severely strained,
a. warped and broken, at the
ce There ar5gguld indicate. 1t is
;. .1+ ThGreatest strain re-
vi youth, which all enjoy 1IiEely tl to
or there is the beauty ale forced
naIor which is the most cent as
conn form Of beauty, there is the
&c intellect, which sharpen
% the most rugged # Bfo-
ure nnd rsdeems them from Tight
Ooh eg Of plainess, and lastly .s. fe4t
nlor the highest beauty s things
n tSe beauty Of holinesss s casts to
t the from close '"'' u"s'''nSu
80 course with n erected as a mu-
ton of His preserved plaster
has beauty spoki on. These people
I;cted the Apostlehe fine ashes just
llo'e" Mt sim the positions in
weak all tha' These ashes hardened,
,,rino steadfas bodies, with the excep- |
of faitlnes, entirely disappeared
eal Vi " Fages, the hollow places
le re- saves were exactly the shape
IS facfand features of the persons
en- there.
ed pe- ious Italian conceived the idea |
5 Spe- Bhto these hollow moulds and
,,or 70 sm up with plaster of paris.
'en lis became dry and hard the
6 thSere removed, and there were the
We yNer images of the persons who had
Zen overtaken and destroyed before they |
inld escape from that terrible storm Of /
tot ashes, which came down in quanti-
ess sufficient to cover whole city from /
sght-
In some of these figures the features
gre very distinct, and we can even dis
tlnguish the texture of their clothing and
the ring upon their fingers. There are
eight of them-men, women and girls
beside the cast OF large dog.
Lifting by Arithmetic.
Civil engineers are mostly common
place people, but an odd stick OCCASION