Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-01-16
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The sun is equal "a 800, 0JO earths.
Compressed carbouic acid promises to
revolutionize warfare.
George Breed, Of the United States
Navy, has succeeded IN getting musical
tones Of different pitch from an electric
current.
Dr. Russell, senior pathologist at the
Edinburgh Royal In6rmary, claims that
he has discovered the cancer parasite,
which he maintains he has traced to a
fungus of the yeast type.
Breathing rapidly as possible during
a surgical operation, DR.. Yates says nc
"heard the knife rip through The flesh,
like the sound produced in cutting
leather, but felt no pain"
Tables of the density of the atmosphere
calculated from telegraphic weather re-
ports have been found to give better
clue to the movements and origin Of
cyclones than the usual method OF a COM
parison of the isobars aud isothermes
alone.
Nature produces the light given by the
frehv at about one four hundrcdth part
of the cost of the energy which is ex'
pended in the candle flame, and at an
insignificant fraction of the cost OF elec-
trio light or the most economical light
which has yet been devised.
In the electric gyroscope for use in cor
recting the error of compass neither
rolling nor pitching need be feared. 1t
is said to be adapted to correct the COM
pass with certainty, as its axis of rota-
ton remained fixed as long as it is
necessary to prolong the observation.
The largest plant fossil in Europe was
discovered in 1854 in the coal mines of
Piesberg, and is now in a Berlin museum.
The fossil is a piece of a gigantic an
cestor of the ordinary lycopodium, and
consists of a trunk about yard in
diameter, which divides at the bottom
into several fork.like roots.
Professor T. Russell defines a cold
wave as twenty degrees fall in tempera-
ture in twenty-four hours over an area Of
5000 square miles, the temperature in
some parts OF this area descending to
thirty-six degrees. During the past ten
wears there have been no less than CYL
cold waves in the United States.
Compressed carbonic acid gas is now
used on shipboord for freezing meat,
brine being cooled By the expanding gas
and circulated in pipes. On steamer
which carried 80, 900 carcasses Of mutton
to Liverpool from South America, the
meat was kept in excellent condition
with saving of four-flths Of the former
coal consumption for working the re-
frigerating machinery.
A discovery of petroleum is reported 70
have been made at the foot Of hill
named the Puy de la Polk, four miles
from Clermont, in Auyergnc, France.
The napatha which exudes from the rock
is equal to Baku or Pennsylvania oil, aud
geologists are of the opinion that 1t eN'
tends in subterrauean sheet over the
vast ptain of Limagne, and is probably
to be found at the depth of 1900 feet.
Carpenter mentions the case OF a
somnambulist who sat down AMI wrl'e
with utmost regularity and uniformity.
"Not only were the lines well written,
and at the proper distance, but tue IS
we're dotted and the is crossed; and
in one instance the writer went back
half line to make a correction, crossing
off a word and writing another above 1t,
with as much caution IS if he had been
guided by vision.