The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-08-14
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

g. SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.
lin nearly all Russian factories tho
employees are required to work thirteen
hou:s per day. y
DR.. Brown-Sequard asserts that :
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 IS that seen by the un-
aided eye. Il.
"A stock company. (with 800. 600 CAPT.
tai, has recently boon formed for the
purpose Of raising peaches on q large
scale in Houston County, Georgia.
"A company has been formed at Salt
Lake City, Utah, with a capital stock of
300, 900, to bore for oil near Green
Rivor. Utah. where large quantities Of
oil exist. , >2r, :. i
More than century before the
Christian era there were many beautiful
cups In China. The Portuguese, it il
said, introduced the ware into Europe
about 1918, calling it ''China," after the
country so long pre-eminent in its pro-
duction.
"A triumph Of engineering is re.
ported from California in the lifting Of
the Feather river, fast-fowing stream,
nifty feet, and carrying it for more than
= mile in an artificial bed. at that height
above It's old channel. It has been accom-
plished in . little less than q year. The
object was to drain the river near Ore
Vile, in order to reach tho rich gold de-
posts believed to exist in its bed. : :,
"A correspondent writes: 1T is a
we'll known law that energy is indie
structible, but 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, Notwithstanding
American.
-"Where was the Garden OF Eden?''
was one OF the interesting questions on
which Mr.. Hormuzd 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 a 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
casselps Family Magazine, has made
some delicate investigations into the
nature of sound, with remarkable re-
suits, the making of pictures by notes
1t music. An elastic membrane covered
with semi-fluid paste is stretched over
the mouth Of a hollow receiver. The
musical note Of the singer mirrors itself
in the paste in the most unexpected
Eorms, OF flowers, ferns and shells, the
:orm 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.
DIR. Julius Nelson, of New York,
has examined four thousand of his
1reams, and finds that evening and noc-
turnal dreams are connected with events
II the day; but the latter have more of
the terrifying element. The pleasant
est and most remarkable dreams are
chose 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
sheir imaginative problems in the early
morning. The vividness of DR.. Nelson's
1reams is subject to regular fluctuations
IF twenty-eight days, and varies with
the seasons They are most vivid in
December. and dullest In March and
April