The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1894-06-01
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL,
There is an electric doorstep.


Paper beltin; has been invented.
Only about 5000 stars are visible to
tho naked eye.
There are $4,000 species of fishes,
one-tenth of which iuhabit fresh water.
Scientists arc of the opinion that
some icebcrgs 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 mandiblcs
are movable-a peculiarly unknown
in other species of birds.
A section of California tree sent to
the British Museum, London. is 1880
years old, according to it's rings.
Plenty of water is reported to sup.
ply good level for the proposed
canal between Lake Superior and tho
Mississippi.
An eminent anatomist says that
more of the i'll health of women is duo
to their habit of cramping their feet
than is realized.
There are 1877 pounds Of salt in
ton of water from the Dead Sea. In
the Atlantic the amount is eighty ono
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
no bigger than wren, but he is as
strong as the stormy petrol, and fits
about in infinite gleo when the wind
is blowing fifty miles an hour.
A medical man has found ont that
dismal weather has II bad effect upon
the reasoning powers as well rs upon
the spirits. He says hst5 deductions
made on cloudy days often prove to be
faulty.
To make animals unconscious before
slaughtering is considered humane in
Bernc, Switzerland. A test was recent
ly mado 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 t.
the State Depart tmcnt, suggests that
our fruit prcscrvers try tho new fruit
syrup made from beet sugar and
chemically identical with natural fruit
sugar.
There were many expressions of
wonder by persons who chanccd to bc
out Ill rainstorm at Pocatello, Idaho.
The rain had n peculiar whiteness and
ln ~ yy,ita h, nIn 10
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
Ions way in search of moisture. Ii
was discovered, after an important
aqueduct had caved in, that its walls
were cracked and filled 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 o..
the district south Of sixty-two degrees
south latitude as strewn with ice-
bergs, which become worry numerous
south of sixty-two degrees. The base
of the bergs was colored pale brown
by marine organisms md other brown
streaks were seen beyond the water
level No luminous glow was Obj
served. Clothed in mist they rs,
their mighty snowclai shoulders to y
stately height, or shine fourth brill.
iantly in the sun. Although they AIRY
OF the purest white yet they glow with
color. The creyiccs exhibit rich CO!
baltic blue aniev&rywherc are splashe;
Of emerald green.