The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-07-29
POPULAR SCIENCE.
An a1ectric oroan is new.

An electric organ Is new. 60
Electric locomotive headlights in-
crease. {;
In Denmark they supply the light
houses with oil to still the waves during
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Patrick Duggan, New York team
ster, died recently Of the rare malady
known as Addison disease, which turned
his skin from white to bronze.
Electric bicycles are made in Paris.
The battery does the locomotion, tho
rider does the rest. They are quite
small, but come high enough for buy
ers.
DR.. Ferguson, pathologist of the New
York Hospital, has gone abroad to study
bacteriology and to obtain the most mod :
ern instruments used in chemical re-
search.
Kew England) Observatory is about
to undertake the testing CT Photographic
lenses, as it has for many years done that
of telescopes, sextants, surveying instru-
ments and chronometers.
A velocity as high as 1887 feet pen
second has been attained by a projectile
from rapid-fre gun. This is at ths
rate of 1868 miles an hour. It is the
highest velocity as yet recorded.
Experts studying leprosy in Simls,
India, have found the bacillus. They
succeeded in giving a rabbit leprosy,
the first time the disease has ever been
known outside of the human body.
The glaze upon enameled cards is made
by pressure upon a polished plate on
rollers. The composition is chalk, clay
and little starch. Good work is not
possible without elaborate accessories.
Electric coal cutters are rapidly re-
placing hand labor in many mines. Not
only is it possible to do the work more
cheaply, but there is decided Swing OF
coal, due to the small height of the un-
dercut.
Indulgence in ordinary gymnastics
carried little too far often proves an
extremely prolific source of deep seated
maladies, and is more injurious than the
Ills which gymnastic exercise is, em-
ployed to relieve.
The spaces between the trunk and
bases of the lower, dead, sheathin9
leaves of the palmetto is the principal
habitat of the scorpion, the whip-tail
scorpion and allied forms, as well "a
centipedes, cockroaches, etc.
Color depends upon the number Of
light waves reflected from an object inn
pinging upon the retiua of the eye. In
red there are about 40, 900 waves to thu
inch, and these, the scientists say, Will
strike the eye at the rate of 447 milliona
of millions of pulsations per second. =
For two years Mrs. J. Il. Weber, OF
Philadelphia, has had paralysis in her
right arm, rendering it useless. Re-
Gently nerve taken from deg was:
transplanted to her arm midway between
the shoulder and elbow, and it is hoped
that she will recover the entire use OF hef
arm, wrist, hand and fingers.
The electric light which has been util-;
lied to grow flowers and fruit by night
or on cloudy days has recently been em.
ployed with good effect on board Wesa
Indian steamer to keep alive and -four
ishing some exotic vines and other plants
which were being transported to tho
West Indies for acclimation. .---~.@ss
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For some months past the Greenwich
(England) observations on the earth's
magnetic currents have been interferred
with in a mysterious manner. This dis
turbance consists in continuous vibra-
tion of the registering needles, commenc-
lnc Just before seven o'clock in the morn
ing, going on all through the day, and
terminating shortly aft,r eleven o'clock
at nieht. 1t has now heen determined
that these disturbances are due to the
electric railway between Stockweu and
the city.
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