The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1891-08-22
Curious and Scientific.

1t is estimated that the strata under
living Colorado exceeds 5000 square
miles.
At the naval exposition in London
there is a colossal electric lamp, con-
structed by the admiralty 1t gives a
light equal to that of 5000, 900 candles,
and is placed in a model lighthouse,
fiftysix meters above the ground
-Iaris La Nature.
Notwithstanding the assertion that
there is no animal life in Death Valley,
the government surveying party has
found two hundred varieties of mann
mails and sixty varieties of reptiles.
specimens of which have been for
warded to Washington.
The judicial authorities in Germany
are preparing report which faVors
electricity as means of putting muir
derers to death. The French scientific
journals also have yentured to proph-
esq that this method will supersede
the euillotine in the next century.
There is said to be sixteen species of
American trees the woods of which,
when we'll seasoned, will sink in wat
er The heaviest Of these is black iron
wood, which is 80 per cent. heavier than
water. \ species of oak grows in
green, will sink almost as quickly as
iron.
For such a small country, Belgium
has made great progress in the adoption
of electric lights. The city of Brussels
has 81 arcs and 9,5S1 incandescents
G,hent has 222 ares and 1881 incandes-
cents; Antwerp has 240 arcs and 1,Sil
incandescents; Liege has ISL arcs and
200 incandescents; Neryiers has 65)
ares and >, lbs incandescents.-Ete Electrical
RtritU.
At the late meeting of the lnterna-
tional Congress of Homeopathy, mum
Der Of women physicians were in at
tendance. Papers We're read by DIR.
Emily y Partlee, of South Norwalk
Conn, and Dr. Brewster, of Baltimore,
Md. Dr. Julia Holmes Smith, of Chi
cago; DR.. Millie J. Chapman, of Pitts
burg, DR.. Johnson, of Philadelphia
and others took part IN the discussion.
The magnificent glacial scratches and
grooyings III the limestone at Kelley s
Island, near Sandusky, Ohio, have been
preserved from destruction and per
pctually dedicated to the public by the
corporation owning the quarry. These
markings are unique of their kind, and
tie finest in the world, and their de-
struction would have been an irrepa-
rabc loss to geological science Popular
Science Neuy.
The largest and most powerful wheel
in the world is Il water wheci III opera
ton at the Burden Iron Company s
plant at Troy. \. \. 1t was construct
cd in 1851 bv the late Henry Burden,
and is an oycrshot wheel OF | 200 horse
power, TO feet in diameter, 222
feet III width and contains thirty
six buckets each = deep, and is SO
practically constructed as to be readily
controlled by "A lever which gives it any
degree of power required. -Ner York
Ltdgtr.
Ii has been a matter of dispute
whether large birds of prey will attack
children. Not long since, however, an
old woman in Switzerland was obliged
10 take refuge under a tree, and defend
herself against the repeated attack of
an Alpine yuIture, which, In accord
anee with the habits Of that rapacious
bird. when it wishes to overthrow its
prey, struck her with repeated blows
from It's wings. 1t was finally fright
ened away by the cries OF lis victim,
after it bad made several useless at
tcmpts.- Paris La Nature.