The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-11-15
POPULAR SCIENCE.

Fossil cats of the triassic period have
been dug up in Oklahoma.
More people die in the spring than
in any of the other seasons.
Taken right through, the English
and American races are approximately
of the same height.
The tronometer is a device of DR..
Quintard, Frenchman, for gauging
the trembling of nervous people.
The amount of air that a man will
inhale in twenty-four hours will fill
seventy-eight hogsheads and weigh
ffty-three pounds.
The average weight of the English
brain is 1875 ounces; of the Eskimo,
43.9, but compared with weight OF
body the difference is small.
The highest lakes in the world ore
the Himalayas in Thibet, where there
are some bodies of water as high as
10000 feet above the level of the sea.
During o recent storm at Seis, Tyrol,
lightning struck o mass of rocks.
Shortly afterwards stream of mineral
water was found running from under
the rocks. and has continued to run
ever since.
When there is prospect of rain or
wind the spider shortens the filaments
from which its web is suspended and
leaves things in this state as long as
the weather is variable. If the insect
elongates it's thread it is a sign CT fine,
calm weather, the duration of which
may be judged by the length to which
the threads are let out. If the spider
remains inactive it is a sign of rain.
The material in which imitation dia-
monds are produced is called strass,
from the name of its inventor, Ger
man ieweler who hourished at the be-
ginning of the present century. 1t is
perfectly colorless and transparent
glass, or rather crystal, of irreproach-
able purity, composed of rock crystal,
or of white sand, mixed with oxide of
lead, arsenical acid and other ingredi-
ents.
A simple method of photographing
o person in five different attitudes all
at once has been invented by New
Jersey photographer, by means OF
which the same picture gives five diff
ferent views of the sitter. This is ac-
complished by using as background
two plane mirrors, forming between
them an angle of forty-five degrees,
and placing the person at the Junction.
The usefulness of such pictures will
not be confined to ordinary life, as
they will be most valuable in GRIMM
ology and anthropology.
One gallon of water weighs ten
pounds, so the number of gallons IN
the Pacific is over 200, 900, 900, 600, 600,
an amount which would take more
than l, 100000 years to pass over the
falls of Niagara. Yet, put into l. sphere,
the whole of the Pacific would only
measure 726 miles across. The Allan.
tic could be contained bodily in the
Pacific nearly three times. The num-
Der of cubic feet is II, 700, 900, 900, ,OOO,.
900, 900, number that would be licked
off by 1, 900, 900 clocks IN $40, 900 years.
Its weight is 325, 900, OOD, 900, 900 tons,
and the number of gallons in it are
5000, ,0OO,O 100000. A sphere to hold
the Atlantic would have to be 5333
miles in diameter.
Photography has been introduced
into the clinical laboratory of DR..
! Charcot, the Partisan specialist. In
Simultaneous pictures have been taken
of patients. One shows woman just
at the point of being hypnotized. The
condition is being produced by mere
look and by the sight of a diamond.
Other photographs present patients in
various lethargic and cataleptic con-
ditions. One of the most remarkable
of these photographs shows hysterical
contraction, and in this strange
phenomenon is apparent. One of the
middle fingers of the patient reaches
far over the wrist. Under hypnotiza'
ton the patient appears to develop
the faculty of lengthen1ng the middle
finger abnormally: -....
1t is prophesied that next year will be