The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-06-10
POPULAR SCIENCE.

A machine makes 1000 corks an hour.
The great Lick telescope reveals about
1O0,000,O0 of stars.
Snails have q sort of ribbon with
which they rasp their food as with s file.
Palmetto is claimed to be the only
wood that is proof against the attacks of
the dreaded teredo.
To effect the respiration of a carp,
13, 300 arteries, vessels, veins, bones,
/ valves, etc., are necessary.
A. German professor claims to have dis
covered the bacteria which causes bald
ness by destroying the roots of the hair.
Sir William Thomson condemns the
single-wire system of electric lighting on
shipboard, on the ground that, in spite
of every care, the compasses are affected.
Recent explorations in Greenland hava
developed the fact that north of the
seventy-fifth degree the land in the val.
leya is covered with ice 5000 to 5000 feet
in thickness.
Every year a layer of the sea, four.
teen feet thick, is taken up into the
clouds. The winds bear their burden
into the land and the water comes down
in rain upon the fields, to flow back
through rivers.
Analysis of individual beets indicate
that maturity, more than size, determines
the sugar contents of the beet. A high
weight of leaves, as compared with the
roots, was no evidence of higher sugar
content, but rather the reverse.
The heat produced from the light of q
FREELY is only one per cent. OF an equal
amount of candle-light. The bugs
light is produced by chemical action,
as it is increased by putting the fly in
oxygen and diminished in all atmosphere
of nitrogen.
The size of an adult Englishman's
head is said to average No. Z. The heads
of Portuguese average from 81 to z;
those of Spaniards are little larger, and
those of japanese exceed the English
average. Germans have round heads,
Malays small ones.
Two marked improvements have re-
, Gently been made in the use of gas for
,, lighthouse illumination. One Is pro-
cess Of eurich'ng gas msde. fIeeY, cd! cc..di-
nary cooking coal by the addition Of by.
drocarbons aad heated air, the other is
the new dioptric lens,
1t was lcng thoug int that the water
from melted snow Was the purest Of all
water. This idea has been proved incor-
rect, as the reverse is true. Snow is
really purifier of the atmosphere, at
tracing to it, as it falls, various i'm
purities; and these are found in the snow
water.
The new equatorial telescope recently
mounted in Paris has its tube bent at a
right angle and the image of the sky
formed by the object glass is reflected to
the eve of the observer. 1t is the largest
of its kind in the world, its optical pow
ers being very fine, and the images OF the
planets remarkably distinct.
III. higntss elevated road in the world
is about to be built at Naples. Italy. 1t
Is intended to connect the central part OF
Naples with the Corso Vittorio Emanuele.
It will be suspended from towers l0O
metres high, in which will be elevators
to hoist passengers to the stations. The
road will be operated by electricity, and
the cost is estimated at 81, 900, 600.
An Ohio man followed his runawa
wife down to Arkansas to discover tina
be had no more authority to order he
return home than any other man had
and one in New York had his wife OIL
rested to discover that she was hi
equal partner in law and could no
steal the common funds. When you
wife pops out from under your thum
it doesn't do any good to kick.
The Queen of Spain is laborinI
under mania OF hallucination that SD
will some day come to want, and sh
Is therefore laying away every penn
she can rake and scrape. She eve
borrows email coins of the pages abou
the palace and forgets to repay then
aud the other day she was caught sci
ing fourteen pairs Of her old shoes &c