The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1895-04-05
scientine Notes.

Watercress grown in sewer.polluted
water may cause typhoid.
Russia has five female examiners
have submitted papers to the Academy
Of Sciences.
An English surgeon treats wounds by
tRe application OF gases and medicated
vapors, OF which oxygen Is the most
important.
1t has been found That bees find their
way back to their hives from distances
OF about four miles, and that they fiv
with q velocity of about thirteen mica
IN hour.
Excessive tea drinking is said to be
on the increase in America. OF the
patients applying IN one week Mt dis.
pensary in Brooklyn. 10 per cent were
said to be tea drunkards.
1t is due to the dust that the heavens
are blue. We see the sunlight reflected
by every particle Of dust. There Is
nothing but dust between us and the
sun to transmit its light to US.
Mercury must get much more heat
from the sun than the earth does, since
1t 10 80 much nearer to the sun. II
there were living creatures on Mercury
the sun must also look much larger to
them than 1t does to us.
When ray Of sunlight falls through
an aperture into darkened room, It
70 rendered visible as far Us It extends,
What we actually see, however, is not
the ray Of light, but the particles of
floating dust rendered visible by 1t.
The Egyptian government has lust
granted concession for an electric
road In Cairo, 1t Is suggested that the
pyramids are but eight miles distant,
those famous monuments Of antiquity
may yet serve as the terminus Of q
trolley road.
In Sax0ny scheme Is said to be nm.
der consideration Of the government
for the erection Of an immense central
station to generate electric current in
the Hanichen coal district, with a
view to distributing power to about
10 industrial localities.
The natural antagonism of microbes
OF various species toward each other
has lately received fresh illustration.
DR.. Rumpf has cultivated a bacillus
that Is said to cure typhus In eight
days, and Mt about the same time DR..
Fraenckel announced the discovery of
the typhus bacillus.
Gravity, on the surface Of Mercury is
such that a pound weight of ours
would weigh something less than
seven ounces on Mercury. Hence the
creatures on earth which seem to us
most clumsy, such as the elephant or
the rhinOceros, would be as light and
graceful as the antelope or greyhound
on Mercury.
Some one has suggested the sinking
OF a shaft 1900 or 1900 feet into the
earth for the purpose Of utilizing the
central heat Of the globe. It Is said
that such denth 10 by no means Inn.
possible, with the improved. machinery
and advanced methods Of the coming
engineer. Water at Temperature II
200 degrees centigrade, which can. It
10 said. be obtained from these deem
borings, would not only heat houses
and public buildings, but would fur.
nish power that could be utilised for
many purposes.
According to Cassier's Maeasine, the
smallest generator Of electrical or me-
chanlcal energy 10 the world Il 4 hat.
terry constructed By one OF the electri.
Clans Of the Boston Telephone com.
pany, consisting Of an ordinary glasc
bead, through which two wires, one Of
copper and the other OF iron, are loon.
ed and. twisted % az to prevent their
coming In contact. The calculated wa.
ter In the bead causes current to
how. It has been used In signaling to
!. Q distance Of nearly two hundred mllsp.