The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1895-12-10
Brief Notes Of Science.

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| Hiram Maxim still believes in his
| tlying-machine aud devotes much
time and thought to it.
| Carbouic oxide is among the gases
| liberated from carbons kept incandes-
cent by the electric arc.
| Gold leaf Of any thickness down to
one four-milionth of an inch is now
being made by electrolysis.
Gilliland, in his laboratory at Pei
ham Maner, N. Y, is hard at work on
advanced telephone apparatus.
| The wheels of roller skates are now
made of paper. The advantages
claimed for tie compressed paper tires
are great toughness and flexibility
| The Investigations of Weber have
shown that the curliness of hair va
ries with its fairness. The flatter it is
the more it curls. Curling irons flat
Ten the hair.
Horseshoes are now made of paper
in Germany. They are said to be
very durable, light and easy on the
foot and to absolutely prevent slipping
Oh ordinary pavements.
At last hydrogen is liquified. What
was once pure theory is now estab-
llshed, substantial fact. Every known
gas has been forced from invisibility
to visibility. |
The Russian Amy authorities are
about to establish scientific branch
of the service. The object is to work
out the applicability of electrical dis
coveries to war purposes.
A dentists battery is among the re-
cent inventions. The idea is to OBJ
tain an electric battery which can be
worn in the mouth of person for its
therapeutic effect, and also to give
strength to the palate when false teeth
are worn.
A new understanding device for
furnaces is an attachment automati-
calIy feeding quantity Of oil to the
fire when fuel is added. AS the oil
burns it consumes the smoke, the in
lection of oil being adjusted at will
to the amount of smoke expected at
each fresh charge of fuel.
The reason why ships are not struck
by lightning is attributed to the gen.
eral use which is now made of wire
rope for rigging purposes, as well as
the fact that the hulls of ships are
usually constructed of iron or steel I.
Thus the ship forms an excellent and
continuous conductor, by means of
which the electricity is led away into
the ocean before it has time to do any
serious damage.
The temperature of the earth's
crust increases at the average rate of
one degree Fair. for each fifty-five
feet of descent. At such a uniform
rate of increase we find that we must
only descend to a depth of something
like thirty miles into the bowels of the
earth to find heat sufficient to melt
any known substance, and that few
miles deeper all rocks and metals
must be in state of white-hot fusion
The Chamber of Commerce testing
house Just established at Manchester,
England, proposes to ascertain the
true condition., weight. length and
other ply sical properties of such sub
stances as the directors may from time
to time determine, and to issue certi-
ficates OF the tests. The first work
will be to determine the moisture in
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test the true counts, length, twist and
strength of yarns.
il A curious influence of moonlight is
!. reported by a Benares correspondent
of Nature and the fact is said to be
in accordance with other observations.
During May and June last a person
who stammered observed that on
moonlight nights he stammered more
than on dark nights, and when he
slept exposed to the moon's rays dur
ing June he found that he stammered
most on the day succeeding full moon,
when on the day before aud day after
new moon he has no attack at all.
In the dry battery recently devised
nv a Frenchman each cell is caribou
vessel. In the bottom of which is placed