The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1894-07-28

Additional evidence on the subject
VI the supposed heat from the suns
rays is furnished by an experiment
recently reported in France. Aballoon.
with registering instruments was sent
mp distance of ten miles above the
earths surface, where the temperature
registered wan found to be 104 degrees
Fahrenheit.
The japanese are now making ten
mis- raclSets, and some of them are inn
ported to the United States The work.
manship Is uncommonly fine and all
tie materials look durable. Europeans
in Japan have long played tennis, and
the game originated a good deal nearer
Japan than Europe. 1t was the Badmin-
ton brought to England by East Indian
travellers.
DIR. Lewis Swift. who is credited
with nine distinct comet discoveries,
thinks that comets are composed OF
little particles as small as kernels of
wheat, each with its own atmosphere
surrounding it," but this is about the
extent of his knowledge on the subject.
land as to why the tail is sometimes
one way and sometimes the other" he
says, 81 do not think any one knows"
| -Krupp of Prussia claims as the re-
suit of experiments that while only 10
to Is per cent. of heat units are utilized
in the modern steam engine, if the coal
is powdered to an impalpable powder
and exploded in cylinders, after the
manner of an ordinary gas engine. 70
to so per cent. of the heat units may
be realized.
1t is surprising fact that of all the
organic salts of our body we only take
one-sodium chloride, or common salt
from inorganic nature and add it to
our food. All other salts are present
in organic foodstuffs in quantities suf-
ficient to our requirements; we have no
need to seek for them elsewhere.
Copper must have been one of the
earliest metals known, worked and
valued in human industry. 1t ranks
second to silver in malleability and due
tility. or third as compared with gold,
which is the most malleable metal
known, and ranks next to iron in ten
sile strength, and, being an abundant
metal, native in many parts of the
world it often lies at or near the sur
face of the earth.
"A series of chemical tests. insti-
tuted at the instance of Pomeranian
dairy farmers, showed that fully TWEEN
ty-fve per cent. of the butter sold in
Berlin was adulterated with margarin.
The amount of the adlniXture ranged
from 30 to 100 per cent. The conclusion
was that the loss to German dairy far
mers on this account could not be less
than ten thousand dollars per day A
movement has been started to procure
legislation against the fraud.
: The vertebrae of snake are fitted
together with sort of ball and socket
articulation, which, however. is capa-
BILE of motion only from side to side. A
} snake moves by propelling himself on
, the points of the scales, which, to him,
, answer the purpose of ribs. A snake
does not climb tree or bush by coiline
around it, but by holding on with the
points of it's scales. A snake on pane
j., of glass is almost helpless.
At the agricultural experiment sta
!, tion of the Maine State college, oh
a servations covering the period O
n growth of four years have shown tina
:, the excess of moisture in forest abov
" that of open field averages 10 per cent
a. reaching IA per cent. in the middle c
"a the day. The excess would undoubte6
ly be greater in very dense forest
"a The presence of patches of forest i
~ any region eXerts marked infuenc
a on the microscopic conditions of tn
i atmosphere, and this condition, il
turn, is an important factor in tn
growth of vegetation.