Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1890-05-24
POPULAR SCIENCE.

Animal oils are best for softenine
Heather
The Eiffel Tower in Paris is found to
he remarkably valuable asia meteorologi.
cal observatory.
The rate of increase of temperature in
descending mines and boreholes is one
degree Fahrenheit for every sixty-fve
feet.
g NJ. Licht,yitz, French savant,. has
suggested the use of the new Edison
phonograph by aurists to test the,hear.
ing powers oftheir patients.
Hydraulic power at q pressure of ESQ
pounds to the square inch is now con-
veyed about beneath the streets of Lon
don as steam is conveyed in this country.
A new phonograph, simplifcd from
Edisons model, by painter named Eos
sati, is mentioned in the Milan papers.
It is described as simple apparatus,
taking up little room, and costing less
than 500.
A party of scientists have recently
made an ascent of Mt. Orizaba, from
Chalchicomla, Mexico. Barometric
measurements show the height of the vol
cano as Is, 200 feet, about $500 feet less
than was supposed.
DR.. Chamberlain, Pasteur's assistant
in Paris, has just made discovery of
vital Importance. It is that the essence
of cinnamon, when sprinkled in the room
of a typhoid fever patient kills the bac-
terra within twelve hours and prevents
the disease from spreading.
M. Gueroult proposes to introduce
small apparatus that will represent the
face and gestures of person speaking
through Edison's improved photograph.
while the monograph cylinder is turn
ing to register the speech, instantaneous
photographs of the speaker will be taken
at the rate of 600 per minute.
# There are rs, $50, 552, 900 living crea-
stures in gill of milk taken from the
Cow in the evening and allowed to re-
Rnain over night at the moderate tenn
peratnre of seventy seven degrees F.
Indeed, in such gill of milk there arc
fnore than twenty times as many in
hnbitants as there are human beings on
the earth.
q Frederick Beer, the Austrian sculptor,
has discovered process for making
marble fluid and moulding it as bronze
is nodded. The new process, called
bcryt, is cheap and well adapted to or
namcntation of houses and the construc-
Stion of floors, baths and small pillars.
"A stock company has been formed in
Paris to place it on the market.
A French machDist has just invented
a new lubricant called dynaminc, and it
is being introduced in France. 1t has
the consistency of butter, which it also
resembles in color, and it does not in
hameat temperature lower than about
420 degrees, its melting point being 1888
degrees. 1t is free from resinous matter
and drying oils, is not acid, and has no
chemical action on metals.
a recent Mexican invention consists Of
an electrical device for dcep-sca sound
ings and raising an alarm on shipboard
when nearing shoal water. The appar
atus comprises metal cylinder with
wood lined base, and chamber for the
reception of a central socket containing
an inside tube about half filled with
mercury, with the necessary insulators
and conductors, discs batteries, and
electric bells. When the vessel APP
proaches a reef, or comes into shoal
waters, electrical communication is es-
tablished between the discs and an alarm
sounded on the vessel.
a striking example of degeneration in
growth is exhibited by the scale that at
tacks greenhouse and-other plants. Ac-
cording to Mr.. Bernard Thomas, in
Science Gossip, it is degenerated fe-
male which lives upon the sap of the
plant, continuing to increase in size and
reproduce its young. These may be.
found underneath it as minute red
bodies, Just visible to the naked eye, and
Mt this time of their life comparatively
active creatures; but they soon settle
down and begin to degenerate. Their
eyes become indistinct, and finally,
with their antenne and legs, shrivel
away, the body loses its thickness, and
they appear as if without life.