The hatchet. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1883-19??, 1900-06-17
POPULAR . SCIENCE.

Three hundred twenty purchased
in Salt Lake Valley, the idea being consolidate far
possible, the ostrich industry.
swimmer who broke his neck last August and who
successfully operated upon able to write and his hand
gained steadiness with each attempt.
The statue of the late Prof Huxley by Onslow Ford
Gently unveiled 1t has been placed in the great hall of the
Natural History Museum at South Kensington
crystal of bery has been founded at Grafton N H. which
1900 pounds and another from the locality
ing 45 by "a inches weighed by calculation about 2
In Utah crystals of gypsum feet long have been found
crystal of spodumene-hium aluminium silicate-3O feet
long has been discovered in South Dakota.
The question of the stability the Duca Palace in Venice
is receiving great attention The alarming reports which have
bTary archaeological transferred thus
ievng the weight OF the upper Tie palace
intended by its builders stoehOuse for books and heavy
models
Vesuvus becoming and active and those who
live around greatly alarmed Experts inclined
consider that there immediate danger The station of the
cable road which leads its summit been destroyed Four
English travellers who making the ascent of the volcano
enured too far and oveaken by the lava and severely
burned.
An recently poisoned by hydogen arsenide
which escaped balloon This shows the necessity of
purifying the hydrogen used for balloon purposes The balloon
filled in the ordinary way and nothing peculiar in the
odor of gas noticed afterward the per-
who had assisted in the operation taken seriously i'll
and one of them died.
probable that the system will be introduced
long in Russia the bill which has been prepared this
effect by the Minister of Finance has received the appreciation
of the State Council with the understanding that the Unive
the verfcaton of the weights and
commercial The details all decided
upon and will be submitted to the Council in the future
Since 1896 the metric system has been used by the medical
vice of the in the compounding of formulas this having
been made obligatory.
Dr. Chavernao of AK France has just designed a new
army retcher 1t is rigid conrvance made in two halves
and existing French ambulance
the wounded lifted off ground without exper
iencing shock pain The halves of the streche
placed each side of the sufferer and by pressure they fold
together under the body of the patient who not touched
in
is loaded light bicycle carriage Under the existing
don of ambulance work in France four required
lift the wounded but by the aid of the strcher
two attendants are required.
new kind of map railroad stations is being introduced
in England by the Northwestern Railway Company The map
up white tiles and about six feet square and each
tile inches square The lines marked in black and
burnt sienna
The stronger made nest of the is example of the
of nests of birds whose young born naked The
cuckoo though it constructs nest of rudimentry character
builds which will protect its young which, curousy
enough, born time presumably in the order in
which they laid The kngfsher shows architectural
ability all in the building but burrows hole instead The
chimneysw builds its nest with twigs which stuck to
gether by means OF guey secretion In It's savary glands
which deposits required Rain easily moistens this glue
and quite often the nests fall through into repace
by American microscopic the theory
the red blood cOrpuscles size In different
have failed to show any marked differences
bulletin the Kew botanic garden states that of the
Amaranth family, Acnida auralis originally from Florida
attained length of about twenty five feet
The director Observatory that the map
the heavens on which work has progressing for nearly
years. nearly completed 1t will show nearly thirty million
stars down to the fourteenth magnitude
The effects hunger prolonged found by Professor
Lassgnarde be much like those of drunkenness At first
the intellectual powers become unusually active and the i'm
Imagination Wild then there is change excitabiy
selfshness cruelty and weakened faculties
The deepest oil that yet been sunk in this country
says New York Sum- in the valley of the Monongahea
river about twenty live miles from Pittsburgh and is not yet
completed work has been resumed quite recently
few months ago the hole had been drilled to depth of 5532
or little than mile and then work suspended
of accident 1t is intended to dig the we'll to
depth six thousand feet The deepest bore holes in the
country both sunk in Germany at government expense
to the thickness of the coal measures and also
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