Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-02-24
What Bacteria Are.


copic plants are what botanist call
bacteria, the smallest form of vege-
table life. So small are they that it
would take, in some cases, as many
as fifteen thousand of them arranged
in a row to extend an inch. They
have different forms, some being
round, some oval, some rodshaped,
and others much the shape of cork
screw or spiral In all cases they
are so small that one needs a power
full microscope to study them, and in
no case can we perceive them singlv
with the naked eve. When countless
millions of them are grouped together
in mass, or colony, we can see them
about as we are able to see at a great
distance an approaching army, of
which we are totally unable to dis
tinguish single soldier.
We have said that these bacteria
move about; and this is true of most
of them, although there are some
which do not appear to move at all,
but remain fixed where they find
good feeding-place. Those that have
motion behave in a very peculiar
manner: some wobblc about in one
! place without moving forward in the
| least; others dart hitler and thither,
back and forth, at an apparently fu-
rious rate, rocking and twirling about,
and turning a hundred somersauIts as
they move along.
Bacteria multiply very rapidly, and
they do this in a strange way. A sin
gle one breaks itself in two; then
each half grows to be as large as the
first. Then these, in turn, divide up
one we have many thousands in
short time. To give you the figures,
such as they are, a single one can
multiply at so enormous rate that
in fortv-eight hours it can produce
bacteria; for, while one which is so |
small in itself can do little, the vast |
army resulting from the multiplica-
ton of one is able to accomplish |
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The government of India has been
compelled by law to purchase three
copies of each new book issued in the
country, and it has been discovered
that practice has grown up of print
ing new books simply for the SAFE of
these three copies, for which any price
within reason could be charged. A
change is about to be made in the
law, and hereafter the publishers will
have to present the copies to the gov
eminent,
There are many curious customs OBJ
served by the Brazilians. Funerals
are notable in that for young mn
married lady coffin, hearse and the
livery of the driver must be bright
scarlet the four white horses drawing |
the hearse must be covered with scar
let nets, and scarlet plumes must deck
the horses heads. No women go to
the cemeteries. The mother, the wild
ow, must not exhibit her grief i'll pub
lie
On removing a granite block at st.
Fabu, Flnnlsterre, Roman Hanged
tile was observed, which had apparent
ly served as a cover to a box of wood
now fallen into decay. Inside was
found over 10, 900 small plated Roman
CONS of Valerian, Diocletian, Con-
stantius, Maximus, Lucinius, CONTAIN
tine the Great and COnstaninus IL.
They are all we'll preserved, and date
from 200 to 800 A. D.
At Kumomoto, Japan, the scene of
the recent disastrous earthquakes,
while a well digger was eXcavating for
water at a depth of about eighteen
fathoms, the base fell through and he
was only saved from a descent, how
far it is not known, by a rope which
connected him with the top of the pit.
Examination has shown that a very
large cavity, depth and width UNI
known, exists, and this was probably
caused by a recent earthquake.
1t is announced that NJ. Munkacsy
is making a ceiling for the museum
of the history of art at Vienna, and
that it will be exhibited for the
first time at the next French sa-
lon. The composition is thirty
feet square, and represents the al
legory of the renaissance. In the
center, Titan is surrounded by his
scholars and many models; in the first
panel at the left Leonardo and Ra-
phael converse familiarity; above
them Veronese works on a scaffold,
and to the right, Michael Angelo con-
verses with other artists. Other fig
ures in the piece are Pope Jules Ii,
Bramante, the artitect of st. Peters,
and two cardinals. Above all these
groups is the genius of art in the midst
of legion of angels.