The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-12-09
POPULAR SCIENCE.

A we'll of electricity has been discov-
cred near Red Wing, MINI.
Aman thirty years of age may expect
to live for another thirty-two years.
The use of gas for Illuminating libra
ries is found to destroy the leather bind.
ings of books.
A trunk line of fifty telephone wires,
between New York and Chicago, will
oon be completed.
Leprosy's microbe, recently discoy.
cred, Is of infnitesimsl size, aud is re.
markable Tor its activity.
Professor = Keeler, of the Allegheny
PENN Observatory, says that the sun
will continue for 5000, 900 II 10, o00,-
900 years to illumine aud warm the
earth. .s.
A French scientist has perfected a,
device for obtaining oxygen from sea
water by electric means, and carrying it
to any part Of a vessel to use as a disin-
tectant. So so
A mixture of powdered aluminium and
chloride of potash will give a brilliant
fash light. It gives no smoke, and is
thus fer better than magnesium for pho
tographic purposes.
Recent experiments upon the electro
type generation of pressures from gases
formed in a closed space have been very
successful, and a pressure of 1000 atmcs-
pheres has been obtained.
AFrench bee-keeperh has experimental
with his bees as carriers of dispatches.
One difficulty Of the bee service is that
the insects will not return Y e a dis.
lance of more than two or three miles.
Ice II inches thick will supports man,
four inches thick will support a cavalry,
five inches thick an eighty-four pound
cannon, ten inches thick will support a
multitude, and eighteen inches thick
will support a railroad train.
Lieutenant Foster, of the third Parry
Arctic expedition, speaking Of the long
distance q human voice can be heard un-
der favorable conditions, says he con-
versed with a man across the harbor Of
Port Bowen, a mile and a quarter away.
By placing two iron bars at seven or
eight yards distant from each other, and
putting them in communication on one
side by An insulated copper wire apd on
the other side with a telephone, it is said
that a storm can be predicted twelve
hours ahead through q certain dead sound
heard in the receiver.
Researches in Egypt are still being
made, and with very gratifying results.
Three colossal statues of rose granite
have just been found near Aboukir. Two
of these represent, in one group,
Rameses II. and Queen Hentmara seated
upon the same throne and these are con-
sidered to be among the most unique OF
Egyptian statues.
In three cases of gastric ulcer reported
by DR.. HERSHEY, recovery has followed q
diet of ice cream. The first patient, a
woman of thirty-fve, had lost twenty-five
pounds and suffered great pain. At her
desire, she was given from one to three
quarts daily of ice cream for two months,
whom she had gained twenty-four
pounds, and her ordinary diet was gradu-
ally resumed.
A new kind of bird has besn discov-
cred in Wyoming. In company with a
dozen buzzards, it was lowering over the
carcass of q dead horse ip a pasture. It
has the head and beak of a boot owl, the
body and neck of q rooster and its tail is
similar to that of a peacock, and when
shot made a noise not unlike that Of a
guinea hen. The bird will prove an in
teresting study for scientists and has been
shipped to New York City.
A clinometer is an instrument for meas
uring the rolling of a vessel ct sea, and
1t is usually in the cabin companionway.
When it indicates ffty-iive degrees any
one can easily understand that something
unusual has happened. The clinometer
in the steamship Elsie marked a.roll to
that extent on the latest voyage from
Funchal to Baltimore. Near Bermuda
she was struck by hurricane that shifted
several times and made a heavy, confused
sea. During the most violent rolling q
glass decanter on the cabin table was
turned bottom up, emptied, and cracked
from the base up without having been
rolled of.