Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-06-08
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 inhabit fresh water.
Scientists are of the opinion that
some icebergs last for two hundred
years.
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 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
canal between Lake Superior and the
Mississippi.
An eminent anatomist sc $ that
more of the i'll health of women is due
to their habit of cramping their feet
than is realized.
There are 1877 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
ments until the age of fifty.
The little snow bird of the Sierra is
strong as the stormy petrol, 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 report to
the State Department, suggests that
our fruit 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 CHANGED to be
ont in rainstorm at Pocatello, Idaho.
The rain had peculiar whiteness and
left white spots on the clothing, like
mud. They were examined and found
to be the residuum of salt water.
One secret of the willows marvel
Gus tenacity of life is to be found, per-
haps, in the fact that it sends its roots
long way in search of moisture. 1t
was discovered, after an important
aqueduct had caved in, that its walls
were cracked and filed for many feet
with roots. These roots, it was dis
covered, came from willows at least
thirty feet distant.
Mr.. Bruce, of the Dundee Antarctic
whaling fleet, describes the whole of
the district south of sixty-two degrees
south latitude as strewn with ice
bergs, which become very numerous
south of sixtytwo degrees. The base
of the bergs was colored pale brown
by marine organisms and other brown
streaks were seen beyond the water
level. No luminous glow was OBJ
served. Clothed in mist they iss
their mighty snow-clad shoulders to a
stately height, or shine fourth brill
iantly in the sun. Although they are
of the purest white yet they glow with
color. The crevices exhibit rich co.
baltic blue and everywhere are splashes
of emerald green.