The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-09-30
POPULAR SCIENCE.
Microcidine is a new antiseptic.

Microcidine is new antiseptic.
The practice of "cold saving" oi
steel and iron is beng generally
adopted.
A new mineral has been discovered in
Texas which IS said to be seven times
stronger than any other when made into
wire.
The average of the pulse in infancy is
one hundred and twenty beats per
minute; in manhood, eighty; at sixty
years, sixty.
Electric pleasure boats are now in
use in u'any places. Storage batteries
ere used in them, although the novelty
is somewhat expensive.
1t has been found after elaborate ex-
periments that sewage can be more
efficiently filtered though open sand
than through sand covered with soil.
The demand for American screws is
so great in England and Germany that
screw company of Providence has estab-
lished branch factory in Leeds, Eng
land, and will put up another on the Con-
tinent.
~ The distance of the horizon is governed
by the heig ght of the eye above the earth
or sea. On the sea, with the eye at
height of five feet, the distance would
be three miles; at sixty feet in height,
ten miles.
A pathological statistician calculates
that in the year 1000 there will be
100, 900, 900 people who speak Eng
lish, and that the other European
languages will be spoken by only 5O0,.
600, 900 people.
Scientists claim that the first appear
ance of the North American Continent
above the waters was in a small, angular
section, extending from the Great Lakes
northeast to Labrador, and nothwest to
the Artic Ocean.
Professor Tacchini, at Rome, has found
that the marching of regiment of SOL
diers $50 yards away was registered by
the earthquake apparatus located in the
tower of the college at height of LIS
feet above the city.
The air is admitted to the in
terror of leaf through minute openings
or mouths, which generally exist in great
numbers. Thus upon an ordinary apple
leaf there may be found as many as one
hundred thousand of these openings.
A collection of Eskimo works of art,
obtained by Assistant Superintendent
Edwards of the Greenland cryolite mines,
includes greensboro candlc-sticks, cigar
holders, ash-receivers, anchors, paper
weights, etc. The objects show con-
siderable skill, though, the Eskimo's
having no use for ornamental art, they
were made to sell to Danish rulers.
A Lyons anatomist has examined the
skeletons of eighty-siX monkeys-chlm-
panzces, gorillas and oraug-outangs-
and has found diseases of the bone to be
as frequent as il man, and of strlklngly
similar character. There were several
cases of ephiphyses, five of fracture, five
of deformed joints, and eight of osslica-
ton. Fractured bones had knitted to-
gether perfectly.
The recent improvement made in pho
Biography and its use in astronomy has
proved most valuable to the study OF that
science. A dry plate can be exposed for
suitable length of time in the telescope,
and the image thus obtained will contain
the details of nebula, even where the
amount of light would be imperceptible
to the naked eye, thus producing al i'm
age far more useful and accurate than
could ever be obtained by drawing.
Engraving on metal is now carried to
wonderful pitch of excellence, but ac-
cording to accounts from Russia further
remarkable strides are being made in
the art in that country. A Russian
electrician is said to have devised pro-
cess of photographing and engraving on
metals by means of electricity, by which
the etching method is entirely dispensed
with. The process has been patented,
and the electrician is understood to be
about to take trip abroad for the pur.
pose of disposing Of his invention.