The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-05-23
POPULAR SCIENCE.

Churches lighted by electricity are
increasing in number.
Ten engines of the Kansas City,
Fort Scott and Memphis Railway will
soon be furnished with electric head
lights.
The Pope has ordered that st.
Peters have an elevator that shall run
to the dome, and will introduce cleo
trio lights into the Vatican.
William Yansey is Chicago janitor
who is said to be possessed of double
decked throat, with two separate and
distinct voices. He can sing a duet
all by himself.
Negotiations are in hand between
the Italian and Swiss Governments to
establish telephone communication
Between Milan, Como and Lugano and
other towns in Switzerland.
A new enemy of the vine in France
is a galley worm, or myriopod, which
has been observed by NJ. Fontaine to
invade the buds in numbers ranging
from five to ten on bud, forming
balls of the size of small pea.
Such has been the growth of popu-
lar opinion in favor Of the sudden dis
position of the dead by heat that there
are now in the country eighteen incor-
porated cremation societies, and dur
ing the past ten years about three
thousand cremations have taken place.
It seems strange, both from individ-
ual and social conditions, that there
should be more suicides in Germany
than in other European countries, yet
80 itappears, the annual average being
about 2.7 to every 10000 persons. In
France it is 1877, in Austria 1.63, in
England .76 and in Italy .46.
Glassware cracks when placed in
aot water because, being poor con-
ductor of heat, the outside becomes
hot and expands, while the interior is
Gtin cool. The strain resulting from
this unequal expansion causes the
fracture. For this reason, thin glass,
which is quickly heated through, is
less likely to break than the thick,
heavy varieties.
A curious phenomenon has been dis
covered near Eddy, New Mexico. In
Dark Canyon, about three miles from
Eddy, number of tunnels were run
in order to tap streams of water to get
supply for the water works. The
water was found running in small
natural water pipes, made by the de-
posit of lime from the water. The
whole space cut by the tunnels was
found to be perforated with these lime
pipes.
NJ. Max Schuler is said to have dis
covered, in the joints of persons at
tackled with chronic articular rheuma.
tism, bacteria, which are always iden-
tical in like cases. These bacilli are
short and thick, having at each end
bright grains which aniline. colors
make still more evident. The discov-
erer has been able to cultivate these
bacteria in bouillon, on gelatine, or
on piece of potato. Their culture
requires O temperature of at least
twenty-five degrees, and darkness IS
indispensable. When shall we have
anti-rheumatic vaccination?
At the level of the sea the pressure
of the atmosphere on the piston OF an
engine is about fifteen pounds to the
square inch, but decreases at higher
attitudes. As this atmospheric pres
sure must be overcome by the steam
pressure before any work can be done,
it is evident that the diminished air
pressure of high attitudes more work
can be obtained from a given pressure
of steam than at the SEQ level, or in
other words, an equally effective
pressure of steam can be obtained with
the expenditure of less fuel. The diff.
ference, however, is not great enough
to be of any practical importance.