Passaic City record., 1892-05-07
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.


Small machines in 272 tailoring shops
in Rochester, N. Y, are running by
electricity.
japan has no fewer than 700 earth
quake observing stations scattered over
the Empire.
Fish do not seem to exist below 400
fathoms (2400 feet) with the exception
of the shark.
Engines to be worked by wind are to
be made in Michigan and shipped to Af-
rica and Asia.
Philadelphia, Penn, has the biggest
reel truck. 1t weighs $4,000 pounds
and can carry or bear $50, 900 pounds.
The Vchy Springs in France and the
Hot Springs in Kansas, are recommended
by physicians to sufferers from the gout.
An electric tuning box for the use OF
leaders of orchestras and others interested
in music has been invented by French
man.
Two new steamers are being built,
each 500 feet long for the Atlantic SER
vice. guaranteed to cross in five days and
ten hours.
The first trace of Cretaceous mammal
discovered in Europe is tooth OF
P,aeiaulax, from the Wealden formation
of Hastings, and allied to that genus
whose teeth have occurred in the purbeck
@fJurassic) beds.
Ninety per cent. of the male popula-
ton of the United States are afflicted in
some degree with nervous debility or
weakness and decline, caused either by
improper training, sedentary occupations,
the use of stimulants, and excesses in
habits of life.
Some experiments in connection with
the artificial production OF clouds by
burning cases of resinous matter were
lately made in Paris, France, but were
only partially successful on account of
the wind carrying the clouds away as
soon as formed.
1t appears that the song of the ticada
In Natal, South Africa, Is appreciated by
lace-winged flies which, while the cicada
is shrilling, were observed to gather,
sometimes IN group of fifteen or six
teen, forming a rough semicircle at a
short distance around its head.
Professor Helm, of Zurich, Germany,
says that the most agreeable death is by
falling. He has conversed with many
/, people who have escaped death by falling
by a hairs breadth only, and reports
that those who experienced such acci-
dents suffered neither pain nor terror.
Fogs frequently rise IN the morning
and fall again in the evening because,
warmed by the suns rays, they become
more rarefed, and disperse to an altitude
when they appear to be entirely
dispelled; but at night, when the earth
cools by radiation, the vapors near the
earth again condense, and settle in the
torn of fog.
In soma fine caves discovered in Ia .
mania. the lights carried by the explor-
ing party having been extinguished, the
ceiling and sides of the caves seemed
studded with diamonds. an effect due to
millions of glow-worms hanging to the
sides of the walls and from the ceiling.
These were the only living beings seen in
the caverns.
The largest band-sawing machine ID
the world has recently been completed in
England and sent to Tasmania. The
machine can saw through maximum
depth of seventy-fve inches and the car
riage will accommodate logs fifty feet
long and weighing about fifty tons. 1t
is asserted that this saw cuts even faster
than a circular saw, while wasting seven
ty-fve per cent less wood.
A good illustration of the amount OF
change brought about by deep-sea inves.
tigations in our ideas of the distribution
of the fishes is to be seen in the recent
history of the discoboli. 1t is now
shown that the discoboles,' diskbearers,
lumpfshes, sucking fishes, or sea snails,
as they are variously called, are no longer
restricted to the Atlantic and Pacific in
their northern parts and to the Artic
Ocean.