Western news-Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1898-1900, 1898-10-13

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Professor Alsnel says that betweeI
the ticks Of a watch ray Of ligh
could move around the globe.
Professor Bilslik says. The righ
hand, which is more sensitive to the
touch than the left, is less sensitive
than the latter to the effect Of the heal
and cold.
Dr.. Sharpbil says: The elephant does
not smell with his trunk. His olfactory
nerves are contained in single nos
tril, which is in the roof Of the mouth
near the front.
Every ton of Atlantic water when
evaporated yields eighty-one pounds OF
salt; a ton Of Pacific water seventy
nine pounds; Arctic and Antarctic wat.
er yield eighty-fve pounds to the ton;
Dead Sea water 1877 pounds; the Med.
iterranean eighty-seven and four.
tenths.
A medical authority condemns slow
eating as well as hurried eating, for
both beget imperfect mastication. But
rapid and energetic chewing with free.
dom from mental anxiety insures the
most thorough mastication while
stimulating the secretion of saliva in
the most favorable manner.
1t is asserted in Popular Science
News that spectacles for horses are
among recently patented inventions
The purpose is said to be not to i'm.
prove the sight, but by causing the
ground in front to appear nearer than
it really is, to induce the horse to take
high steps. After training with
such spectacleS it is averred, the horse
acquires and retains the habit of high
stepping.
When liquid air, containing from
40 to so per cent of oxygen, is mixed
with powdered charcoal it forms an
explosion which is said to be compar.
able in power to dynamite, and can be
exploded by means Of a detonator. This
new explosive has been tested in a
coal mine at Penzburg, Germany The
liquid air evaporates so rapidly that
the explosive cannot be stored, but
must be used within few minutes af.
ter it is prepared.
Floors are making in France from a
mixture of six parts of good plaster
with one part Of freshly slaked lime.
This is hardened, when very dry by
thorough saturation with sulphate Of
iron or Zinc-the former giving a sur
face twenty times as strong as ordi.
nary plaster, while the latter is choser
for it's whiteness. Linseed oil boiled
with 1itharge turns the rust color Civ
en- by the iron to beautiful mahog-
any, which is further improved by
coat of copal varnish.
NJ. Oh. Ed. Guillaume, in an article
in the Bulletin de la Societe d'Encour-
agement pour PIndustrie Rationale
calls attention to certain properties of
which are little under.
stood. Now certain of these alloys are
not magnetic, but acquire magnetic
after they have been sub.
mitted to the action of intense cold.
Under the influence of variations in
it is found also that nick.
el-steel expands and contracts in reg
ular ratio, but within very small linn.
it's.
DR.. Lydekker, in knowledge, points
out the error of the widespread belief
that deserts, like the Sahara, are the
bottoms of ancient seas, which have
been lifted above their original eleva.
ton by geological forces. 1t is abso
utely certain, he says, that the sands
If all the great deserts of the world
nave been formed ON the spot by the
of the solid rocks oD
which they rest. Desert sands CORE.
;pond in all respects, so far as their
node of origin is concerned, to the
lust and sand which accumulate on
,ur highroads in summer All des.
.rts are situated where the winds from |
he ocean, before reaching them, are |
Exhausted Of their moisture by pass
ng over mountains Or across extensive |
racts of land.