The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1894-06-01
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL

There is an electric doorstep
Paper betting has been invented.
Only about 5000 stars are visible to
the naked eye.
There are $4,000 species of fishes,
one-tenth of which lnhabit fresh water.
1t is pointed out that one-legged
men usually grow fat possibly from
lack of exercise.
In the parrots beak both mandibles
are movable-a popularity unknown
IN other species of birds.
A section of Il California tree sent to
the British Museum, London, is 1880
years old, according to its rings.
Plenty of water is reported to sup
ply good level for the proposed ca
nal between Lake Superior and the
Mississippi.
An eminent anatomist says that
more of the i'll health of women Is due
to their habit of cramping their feet
than is realized.
There are 1s7 pounds of salt in a
ton of water from the Dead Sea. In
the Atlantic the amount Is eighty-one
pounds to every ton.
At one year old the infant alligator
is twelve inches long. He is fifteen
before he doubles that length and he
does not attain his maximum develop
ment until the age Of fifty.
The little snow bird Of the Sierra IS
no bigger than wren, but he is as
strong as the stormy petrel, and fits
about in infinite glee when the wind is
blowing fifty miles an hour.
A medical man has found out that
dismal weather has bad effect upon
the reasoning powers as we'll as upon
the spirits. He says his deductions
made on cloudy days often prove to be
faulty.
To make animals unconscious before
slaughtering is considered humane in
Berne, Switzerland. A test was recent
ly made there by legal enactment, and
it took six quarts of alcohol to render
an OK unfeelingly drunk.
United States Consul General Mason
at Frankfort, Germany, in Il report to
the State Department., suggests that
ou. frrit preservers try the new fruit
syrup made from beet sugar and
chemically identical with natural fruit
sugar.
There were many expressions OF
wonder by persons who Glanced to be
out in a rainstorm at Pocatello, Idaho.
The rain had Il peculiar whiteness and
left white spots on the clothing, like
mud. They wese examined and found
to be the residue of salt water.
One secret of the viii ow's marvellous
tenacity ofllfe is to be found, perhaps,
in the fact that it sends its roots Il
long way IN search of moisture. 1t
was discovered. after an important aque-
duct had caved in, that its walls were
cracked and filed for many feet with
roots. These roots, i. was discovered,
came from willows at least thirty feet
distant
Mr.. Bruce, of the Dundee Antarctic
whaling fleet, describes the whole OF
the district south of sixtv-two degrees
south latitude us strewn with ice-bergs,
which become very numerous south OF
sixty-two degrees. The base of the
bergs was colored pale brown by ma
rine organisms and other brown streaks
were seen beyond the water level. Nc
luminous glow was observed. Clothed
in mist they rise their mighty snow
cad shoulders to stately heish., OF
shine forth brilliantly IN the sun. AL.
though they are of the purest white
yet they glow with color. The crew.
ces exhibit rich co-baltic blue anl
every where are splashes of emera't
| green.