Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1890-08-02
POPULAR SCIENCE.

absorbing sulphurous acid.
There is spring in Georgia the waters
Of which cure all kinds Of nausea.
A New York physician SAYS that a
plentiful supply of fruit denotes a health
full summer.
The beech is said to be crowding out
al other trees in the struggle for exist
ence in the Danish forests
Emperor William, OF Germany, has
his meals conveyed from his kitchen to
his dining-room on an electric railway.
The discoveries made 10y Explorer
Stanley show that the Nile is the longest
river in the world, being al least 4loo
miles in length
The German Railway Managers Asso-
citation proposes to distribute every four
years prizes agsregating $4,000 for i'm
po1tant inventions and improvements re-
lating to railroads.
An ounce of aqua ammonia TO each
! pailful of water is said 70 provide the
nerves and muscles, besides making the
flesh firm and smooth.
AS rule, women need about nine
tenths of the nourishment requisite for
men, boys of sixteen about the same as
women, and children of ten half the
quantity needed for adults
Inexhaustible quantities Of rel and
yellow ochre have been laid bare by
landslide near Drain, Oregon. 1t looks
like rock, but dissolves readily IN water
and gives fine color on wood.
A German scientist has discovered that
trees, the trunks of which are covered
with moss or lchen, are more liable to
lightning strokes than Others, and i'm
putes to this the comparative immunity
Of the oak.
The diameter of trees varie. not only
from summer toewlnter, but from day to
day. They are larger from noon until
twilight next morning than from twl-
light to noon; they are smaller IN winter
than in summer.
Early rising is commended by the
British Medical Journal as an excellent
moral discipline and as an eminently
hsalthful habit. Early rising is synony-
nous in long-life histories with short
sleeping, which means rapid recovery
from fatigue, sign of bodily strength
The latest report states that twenty one
observatories are now engaged IN the IN
ternational undertaking OF photograph
ing the entire heavens. Each observatory
will have to take about 700 photograph
in the zone assigned to it, and it is hopet
to finish the work in three or four years
Miss Kate Marsden, who has been in
vestigating leprosy in Russia, had al
interview with NJ Pasteur in Paris tn
other day, with the view Of ascertainins
whether incubation could be resorted to
NJ. Pasteur, however, could hold on
no hope of dealing with leprosy IN ths
way.
1t is estimated that persons walkipl
on the sunny side Of the street are ]
light more than 5000 times stronger thai
are the occupants Of an ordinary dark
ened room Of town house, while stroll
ers on the seashore in sunny weather en-
joy the influence Of $4,000 times /
much OF the same health giving agent.
The belief that chimney sweeps can
Ger is disappearing from London wit
Improvement in methods Of sweeping doc
not seem to be well founded. Or Butli
shows from the Registrar General sta
tistics that the liability of the sweeps :
malignant disease is about eight tim.
as great as the average li4blNty Of q
males.
A writer in London journal cal
attention te the unapprec.a'ei uses AZ
preservative qual.i&es Of soapstone,
3 material, he says, J~hich Possesses wh'
nav be regarded as extraordinary 3aal
ties in withssandins atmospheric in1'
eaces. those. especially. which have
much to DO with the corrosion, q ir'
and steel, and from experiments made,
is said that 10 other material i capab
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