Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-10-15
POPULAR SCIENCE.

There are 10000 kinds of butterflies.
The electric motor supplanted about
5000 horses on the streets last year.
In France S07y patents were granted
Tor electrical improvements during the
past year
A Brooklyn IN. W man has invented
In electrical apparatus for automatically
winding a clock.
On August goth meteor fell at Bru-
mean Falls in Idaho which local assay
or says shows traces of gold.
The other day St. Paul, Mimi, sur
.eon made an incision into woman's
neck and recovered the false teeth she
lad swallowed.
About year ago Miss Tolleson, Of
Memphis, Tenn, had an attack of ton
Iilitis that ran her temperature up to the
anheard of point of 15s degrees.
A fresh egg contains the same amount
IF nourishmeut as one and half ounces
If fresh meat and one ounce of wheaton
bread, but in a more digestible form.
A blast set off in the Wenrich mines,
between Joplin and Webb City, Mo-,
blew 3 bowlder weighing 1000 pounds
clear out OF the shaft, which is 135 feet
deep.
If the atmospheric pressure is fourteen
pounds to the square inch as usually rec
1oned, the man of average size is con.
,tantly subjected to pressure of %, 900
pounds.
Numerous experiments to determine
The best re-resisting materials for the
construction of doors proved that wood
covered with tin resisted the fire better
than an iron door.
The ornithorhychus of Australia lays
eggs like bird, suckles its young like
other mammals, and in general appear
ance and habits resembles the beaver of
this country and Europe.
A process for making artificial pre-
cious stones out of crystallized alumina
has been discovered in Glasgow. Some
years ago a Paris artifcer successfully
produced artificial rubies.
/ The most powerful and heaviest gun
in the world weighs 1876 tons, is forty
feet in length and has thirteen and a
quarter inch bore. Its range is eleven
miles with a projectile weighing 1896
pounds.
An electric carriage was tried on the
Chicago streets a few days ago, and
made trip of over twelve miles without
giving out. Five persons rode on the
carriage, aud the whole outfit attracted
considerable attention.
I If you could cut sections out of the
side of soap bubbles, and then had somt
, delicate continuance with which you coulC
handle the pieces, you would find that il
would take $4,000, 900 films laid on,
upon the other to make pile one inch il
height.
A company has been recently formed
in Japan to be known as the Hakone
Electric Light Company. 1t is Intended
to erect central station at Yumoto and
to supply current in the district. There
are now twelve electric lighting COM
panies in Japan.
There are divers remarkable places on
the terraqueous globe whose sensible
horizon is clear aud serene, yet it is i'm
possible to distinguish in it any one o
the intermediate points of the compass
nay, or so much as two of the four car.
dinal points themselves.
As far as can be calculated the average
length of life, which was computed in
the seventeenth century to have beer
only thirteen years, was in the eighteenth
increased to twenty, and in the nine
tenth to thirty-six. Men used to be con
sidered old when they passed fifty.