Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-16

was delayed, sweetness being retained
| from six to nine DAYS, whereas a portion
| OF the same milking not treated with
electricity was distinctly acid on the
third day. The electrified milk coagu-
| lated exactly like ordinary milk, and
| not like milk that has been boiled, but
the coagulated milk had no acid quail
ties about il. He thinks milk might be
kept sweet year by repeating the cleo
trical application once in every three or
four days. The theory Is that electricity
destroys the germs that bring on the
acid condition.
Should this prove correct there exists
a strong probability that meats and other
| substances liable to "spolI" might be
| preserved in the same way. Possibly
the body of deceased person might be
kept perfect for any time desired by u
| repeated application of electricity.
OF the time when astronomers shall
have telescope OF sixty inches diameter
| and eighty feet in length, NJ. Camille
Flammarion saws: ITO what unexpected
discoveries would this supreme effort of
your great nineteenth century lead3
. This is a question which it is impossible
T. answer, but we have the right to
dwell Oh the word unexpected. 1t
must not be forgotten that 1t was when
searching for the limits of the colors in
the solar spectrum chat Fraunhofer dis
covered spectral analysis, and that it
was while seeking the parallaS of the
stars that Sir William Herschell discov-
cred the orbits of double stars, and it
was when seeking for Asia that Christie
pher Columbus discovered America. In
any event. such q telescope will enable
us to see for the first time the seven
teenth magnitude stars, which must be
scattered over the depth of heaven in Il
carpet of SIS, 900, 200 stars, while the
moon will be brought, SO TO speak,
within touching distance
-.
In these notes We, hoping to interest
the young people, have had good deal
to say about planets. The asteroids are
another grade of very small planets that
we have not heretofore found an occasion
for mentioning. There are said to be 300
of them, all running on regular orbits
around the sun, but all too small to DO
seen with the naked eye. In recent
years there has been quite craze among
astronomers for hunting them, but now
the hunt seems to have been relinquished
to small group of specialists, one OF
whom, NJ. Palissa, has detected no less
sixteen years OF work. Mr.. Peters of
Slintou, n. y, has discovered forty
eight; Mr.. Luther, twenty five. in about
forty years, the brothers Henri-whose
attention is now absorbed in astronomi-
cal photography-seve each, and NJ.
Charlois, SIX.
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The known matter of the earth, in
Guiding water and air, and assuming the
known crust to have thickness of ten
miles below sea LEVELS calculated by
Professor F. W. Clark to have the fol-
lowing percentage composition: Oxygen,
1898; silicon, $50; aluminium, 7.2G;
iron, sos; calcium, 3.5l; magnesium,
2. 80; sodium. 2.2S; potassium, 2.23;
hydrogen, 0.94; titaium. 0.30; carbon,
OIL; chlorine and bromine, Q. 10; phos-
phorus, 0 90; Manganese, O.O7; sulphur,
0.04; barium, 0.30; nitrogen. 0.02;
chromium, DOL. At the lowest esti-
mate, nine elem snts constitute IS per
cent of all terrestrial substance. Tasting
the density of the earth s crust as 2.5, it
is found that the percentage of atmos-
phere is 0.03; of ocean, 7.0S; and OF
solid crust, 81. SO.