The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-08-08
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

In nearly all Russian factories the
employees are required to work thirteen
hours per day.
DR.. Brown-Sequard asserts that a
tonic will yet be discovered which will
give person from $50 to 200 years of
active life.
The light seen through the new eye
piece of the Lick telescope will be 1000
times as bright as that seen by the I'M
aided eye.
"A stock company,lwith 500, 900 capt.
tai, has recently been formed for the
purpose of raising peaches on a large
scale in Houston County, Georgia.
"A company has been formed at Salt
Lake City, Utah, with a capital stock of
100000, to bore for oil near Green
River, Utah, where large quantities of
oil exist.
"A triumph Of engineering is re-
ported from California in the lifting Of
the Feather river, fast-fowing stream,
fifty feet, and carrying it for more than
mile in an artificial bed, at that height
above its old channel. 1t has been accom-
plished in little less than a year. The
object was to drain the river near Ore
vile, in order to reach the rich gold do
posits believed to exist in it's bed.
"A correspondent writes: ut is a
we'll known law that energy is indie
structible, but a case came to my notice
short time ago in which it is hard to
tell in what form the energy appears.
A metal spring is placed under tension,
and while in this state is fastened and
placed in acid until it is completely dis
solved. What becomes of the energy
stored up in the spring? Is it turned
into heat, and, if so, how?"-Scientific
American.
-"Where was tho Garden of Eden?"
was one of the interesting questions on
which Mr.. IIormuzd Rassam discoursed
before the Victoria Philosophical Insti-
tute recently, Sir G. G. Stokes M. p,
in the chair. Mr.. Rassam has lately
been eXcavating Babylonian and As
syrian sites, but he has not found the
Eden sites, and he showed how utterly
impossible it was to locate in land
where volcanic action and physical al
terations had in many places changed
the courses of the rivers in past ages.
In this sense it is really paradise
Lost"
Mrs. Watts Hughes, according to
Cassells Family Magazine, has made
some delicate investigations into the
nature of sound, with remarkable re-
suits, the making of pictures by notes
of music. An elastic membrane covered
with semi-fiuid paste is stretched over
the mouth of hollow receiver. The
musical note of the singer mirrors itself
in the paste, in the most unexpected
forms, Of flowers, ferns and shells, the
form and size of the picture varying
with the tone and timbre of the note.
What application can be made of this
wonderful discovery remains to be seen.
DR.. Julius Nelson, of New York,
has examined four thousand of his
dreams, and finds that evening and noe
turnal dreams are connected with events
of the day; but the latter have more of
the terrifying element. The pleasant
est and most remarkable dreams are
those of the morning, after the rest of
the brain. Fancy IS then at her best,
and gives the clearest visions. In this
connection it will be remembered that
many famous men have thought over
their imaginative problems in the early
morning. The vividness of DR.. Nelson's
dreams is subject to regular fluctuations
of twenty-eight days, and varies with
the seasons. They are most vivid in
December, and dullest in March and
April.