Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-10-27
POPULAR SCIENCE.
There are 30, 900 kinds of butterflies

There are 90, 900 kinds of butterflies.
The electric motor supplanted about
80, 900 horses on the streets last year.
In France 8079 patents were granted
for electrical improvements during the
past year.
A Brooklyn IN. " man has invented
an 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
geon made an iucision into woman s
neck and recovered the false teeth she
had swallowed
About year ago Miss Tolleson, of
Memphis, Tenn, had an attack of ton
silitis that ran her temperature up to the
unheard of point of 1873 degrees.
A fresh egg contains the same amount
of nourishment rs one and half ounces
of fresh meat and one ounce of wheaton
bread, but in more digestible form.
A blast set off in the Wenrich mines,
between Joplin and Webb City, Mo-,
blew bowlder weighing 1000 pounds
clear out of the shaft, which is 1876 feet
deep.
If the atmospheric pressure is fourteen
pounds to the square inch as usually rec
koned, the man of average size is con
stantly subjected to pressure of 20, 900
pounds.
Numerous experiments to determine
the best fire. resisting materials for the
construction of doors proved that wood
covered with tin resisted the fire better
than an ironsdoor.
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 Paris artiicer successfully
produced artificial rubies.
The most powerful and heaviest gun
in the world weighs 1876 tons, is forty
feet in length and has a thirteeo and a
quarter inch bore. Its range is eleven
miles with projectile weighing 1900
pounds.
An electric carriage was tried on the
Chicago streets few days ago, and
made trip of over twelve miles without
giving out. Five persons rode on the
carriage, and the whole outfit attracted
considerable attention.
If you could cut sections out of the
side of soap bubbles, and then had some
delicate continuance with which you could
handle the pieces, you would find that it
would take $4,000, 900 films laid one
upon the other to make pile one inch in
height.
A company has been recently formed
in Japan to be known as the Hakone
Electric Light Company. 1t is intended
to erect a 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 and serene, yet it is i'm.
possible to distinguish in it any one oil
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 been
only thirteen years, was in the eighteenth
increased to twenty, and in the nine
teenth to thirty-six. Men used to be con
sidered old when they passed fifty.