The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-03-11
POPULAR SCIENCE.

Indianapolis, Ind, boasts of On abua-
dant supply OF natural gas.
A new typewriter, under the ''point"
system, produces writings which the
blind can read.
At least one person in three betweeo
the age of ten and forty years is subject
to partial deafness.
Felix L. Oswald maintains that night
air from the outside is far more healthful
than the vitiated, disease.laden night air
of ordinary human dwellings.
A grain of fine sand would cover one
hundred of the minute scales of the
human skin, and yet each of these scales
in turn covers from 800 to 500 pores.
The Common Council of Cincinnati,
Ohio, at the suggestion of the health
officer, has passed an ordinance making
it a misdemeanor to give public exhibi-
tions of mesmerism and hypnotism.
A method for using the short pieces Of
carbons used in the electric arc lights is
in operation by the electric light COM
pany at Concord, N. a., and it is
stated that it saves thirty per cent. OF
the cost.
The smokeless powder that viii be
used in the thirty -calibre magazine rifles
that the Army Board on Magazine Guns
ore about to experiment with is OF
Belgian make. It is known as the Wet
teran powder.
Among the latest disinfectants is 'ey-
sol,' which appears to be very much like
carbolic acid. The emulsifying agent is
resin or fat soap, tar acid being incorpor-
ated with the soap at the moment OF
saponifcation-
A new idea in arc lamps is the substl-
tuition of hollow carbon cylinder for
the usual upper carbon point and disc
for tho lower rod. The edges OF the
cylinder and disc are in contact, and the
light is formed at that point.
A Willows (Cal.) paper says that JEFF
Garnett has utilized three miles Of barbed
wire fencing for q telephone It runs
from his old ranch home to new resi-
deace Just finished. A small wire at
each end of the fence connects tele-
phone, in each house.
Oxygen is the most abundant OF all
the elements. 1t composes at least one
third of the earth, one-ffth OF the at
mosphere and eight-ninths by weight OF
all the water on the globe. It is also
very important constituent OF all minerals,
animals and vegetables.
a scientific paper says: Observations
seem to show that q decrease IN the
earth's latitude is in progress, implying
an alteration in the direction OF the
earth's axis. The fuetuation is thought
to. be due to minute oscillation caused
BY changes in internal wars of the
earth.
Homeopathy is said to be spreading
in Russia, especially in the upper social
strata. Societies for the propagation OF
the Hahnemannian doctrines have re-
Gently been established at Tschernigov,
Odessa and Warsaw. The clergy are
conspicuous among the supporters OF tas
great medical heresy, and in Russia the
military mind seems also to have al elec-
tive affinity for globules and infnitesimsl
dilutions.
Month BY month the number of tole'
grams which can be sent through single
wire increases, and the distance through
which telephone message can be heard
is heightened out. A newly devised ap-
paatus, quite simple in form, is said to
take telegram rs it flows from ones pen
and transcribe it from the wire in fac.
smile. Even the words impressed upon
tho wax of q phonograph are now capable
of being forwarded to distances exceeding
hundred miles.
A large mine of. agate onyx has been
] .no,od i, q oova near Ozark Mo.