The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-08-01
POPULAR SCIENCE

Animal oils are best for sOfteuing
leather.
The Eifel Tower in Paris is found to
be remarkably valuable as a meteorologi-
cal observatory.
The rate of increase of temperature in
descending mines and boreholes is one
degree Fahrenheit for every sixty-five
feet.
NJ. Lichtwitz, French sayant, has
suggested the use of the new Edison
monograph BIZ aurists to test the hear
ing powers OF th,ir patients.
Hydraull 81 At pressure Of $50
pounds to ihS uare inch is now con-
yeyed about bsh{ath fhe streets of Lon
don as steam is eunTeged in this country.
A new phonogzaph, simpifed from
Edison's modtls b. a psinter named Eos
sati, is metz ~ N the Milan papers.
It is descrioea sinple apparatus,
taking up pom. and costing less
than $40.
a party ;ienkists have recently
made an 81 lit. Orizaba, from
ChalchicaI iekico. Barometric
measurement 81 the height of the vol
cano as Is. i about $500 feet less
than was 50 ri
DR.. Chad and, Pasteur's assistant
in Paris, = s made discovery of
vital imp T. is that the essence
Of a typhcigh isssisnt kills the BAG
terra withsl ar Fe hours and prevents
the E, dissassai the pFsaaing.
small appn Dist will represent the
face and GIN, sof q person speaking
through 3D. simproved phonograph.
While the f51 raph cylinder is turn
ing to regs oiSs speech, instantaneous inst
at the rate % 30 per minute.
There al sse. So, 900 living crea-
lures in milk taken from the
cow in the fsping and allowed to re-
main over night s. the moderate tenn
perature OF seventy-seven degrees f.
Indeed, IN such gill of milk there are
more than twenty times as many in
habitants as there are human beings on
the earth.
Frederick Beer, the Austrian sculptor,
has discovered a process for making
marble fluid and moulding it as bronze
is nodded. The new process, called
beryt, is cheap and well adapted to or
namentation of houses and the construc-
ton of floors, baths and small pillars.
A stock company has been formed in
Paris to place it on the market.
A French machinist has Just invented
a new lubricant called dynamine, and it
is being introduced in France. It has
the consistency of butter, which it also
resembles in color, and it does not in
fameat temperature lower than about
420 degrees, its melting point being 1873
degrees. 1t Is free from resinous matter
and drying oils, is not acid, and has no
action on metals.
A recent Mexican invention consists of
an electrical device for deep-sea sound
ings and raising an alarm on shipboard
when nearing shoal water. The appar-
atus comprises a metal cylinder with
wood-lined base, and chamber for the
Of a central socket containing
an inside tube about half filed with
with the necessary insulators
and conductors, discs, batteries, and
electric bells When the vessel ap-
proaches reef, or comes into shoal
waters, electrical communication is es-
tablished between the discs and an alarm
on the vessel.
A striking example of degeneration in
gTowFf(s exhibited BY the sszz lee that that
.aeSs greeshsrss-and other plants. Ac-
,ording to Mr.. Bernard Thomas, in
Science Gossip, it IS a degenerated fe-
male which lives upon the sap of the
plant, continuing to increase in size and
.eproduce Its young These may be
ound underneath it as minute red
,odies, just visible to the naked eye, and
It this time of their life comparatively
Ictive creatures; but they soon settle
Town and begin to degenerate. Their
yes become indistinct, and finally,
With their antenne and legs, shrivel
way, the body loses its thickness, and
hey appear as if without life.