The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1890-01-02
POPULAR SCIENCE.

The average human life in Rome,
under Caesar, was eighteen years; now IL
is forty.
A Russian mineralogist, X. d. Chrust-
| schof, claims to have discovered n new
metal, which he proposes to name "Rus.
SUM"
The largest incandesccnt circuit in the
world Is forty-fve miles in length. The
company working il is situated at OF.
tawa, Canada.
No fewer than 1910 patients bitten by
dogs were treated at the Pasteur insti-
tute in the year ending October 81.
There were thirteen deaths.
According to the eminent Psychologist,
NJ. Sappey, the stomach contains 5000.
600 glands by which the gastric Juice is
secroted, and few others which sccretc
only mucus.
To the perfumes of flowers VI. I'm
gerer ascribcs the power of protecting
against, and even arresting, consump.
tion. In the perfume distilling town of
La Grasse lung troubles are but little
known.
The elephant skeleton set up in the
front hall Of the Madras 0ndia) museum
is ten feet six incnes high. and il has
been stated that this is the skeleton OF
the largest elephant ever killed in that
country.
Oil for locomotives in place of coal
will, IL is stated, be largely introduced on
one Of the English railways soon. 1t is
probable also that petroleum refuse will
be used for fuel in consequence of the
high price of coal.
A complete list Of the flora of New.
foundland and Labrador, in preparation
by Rev. A. G.. Waghorne, will contain
about nine hundred species of Towering
plants, fifty ferns and over two hundred
and fifty mosses and lichens.
Surgeons are finding constantly increas-
ing opportunities for making use of cleo.
tricity in the service of their profession.
II is said to he admirably adapted for the
treatment of neuralgia pain, and its ap.
plications in chronic cases is very beneii.
cial.
Among those who have worked out the
problem of procuring aluminium by cleo
trolysis NJ. Minet is one Of the most sue.
cessful. The clectrolytc used by him is a
mixture of from thirty to forty per cent.
of cryolite with from sixty to seventy per
cent. of common salt.
DIR. Burden Sandorson foresccs another
division in science. lie observes. in
biological paper in the British Associg-
tion, that morphology and physiology have
now diverged so widely, as regards sub
ject and method, that there seems To he
danger of complete separation of one
from the other.
A new style of horseshoe has been
patented by two Wisconsin men. The
shoe is made in sections, with elastic
cushions between and rivcts connecting
the sections, making shoe in which
there will be vertical yielding of spring,
avoiding shocks or jar to the horse while
travelling over hard pavements or roads.
A new mode of teaching music has
been proposed in France, based on the
periodicity of the octave. A radical re-
form is aimed at, the system being ex-
pounded in a series Of fundamental prop
ositions-such rs musical effect is quito
different from acoustic effect; there can
be no physical gamut, major and minor,
hut only one, that of the white notes of
the piano called the major and so on.
After the lamcntablc experience Of this
country, it is interesting to know that
there is u part of the world where the
buffalo is not only not dying out, but in
creasing in numbers Vast herds of these
animals are now running wild over GER
tain districts of northern Australia. The
animals are said to be massive and we'll
grown, with splendid horns. The first
bufIaloes were landed ut Port Essingtou,
Queensland, about the year 1929.