Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-08-09
POPULAR SCIENCE.
About 81, 600, 900 people die every

ADOut o4sUUU,UUU people ule every
year, or nearly sixty minute.
1t 8 estimated that the sun raises 81
600, 900, 600 tons of water from the earth
to the minute.
It is proposed q 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 Is, 500.
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
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 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. 1t is said to be
equal to the most exacting demands of
the feminine couture, aud 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 are
said to show that the former are more
like one another in appearance than the
brothers and sisters.
A Virginia artillery company has been
using cheese in target practice, and it was
shown that one of the eheeses fired
against an earthen breastwork pene-
trated two feet further than solid iron
ball. They carry at point-blank range
further than shot or she'll
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 a
column of steam, stones and water about
200 feet in circumference to the height
of about 125 feet An earthquake pre-
coded the eruption and the whole basin
is shaken by it.
OF the entire human race 10000, 600
are well 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 body
500, 900, 900 live in houses, zoo, 900, 900
in huts and caves, and $50, 900, 600
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-
I centhge OF cases III men anu cnlluren as IN
women, and concludes that the phe-
nomenon is a normal tendency TO change
of structure just beginning before our
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