Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-11-28
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

A new element, which has been
named europium, has been isolated"
by M. Demarcy. It has an atomic
weight of about 151, and in it's prop.
critics lies between gadolinium and
samarium.
A certain species of beetle at Berke.
ley, CAL, has been observed to collect
in considerable numbers in the neigh.
borhood of local smelling works,
alighting on the warm Stag and appar.
emily enjoying the fumes
1t is not probable that food has any.
thing to do with temperament or tenn.
per, except as one may be irritable
from over-eating and bad diet, with
consequent Indigestion, or, if a very
hearty person, one may have a sur
plus energy that wreaks itself in any
way that inborn and INDUCED pro-
clivities and passion impel.
French hygenic journal states
that in Tunis the mortality from tuber
culosis is 11.3 per 1000 among the
Arabs, and only 075 per 1000 among
the Jews, who lead pretty much the
same life as the Arabs except that
they daily clean all their furniture
with moist cloths, and never stir up
the germ-infected dust with brooms.
The depths of the sea are nearly at
the freezing point; they are subjected
to enormous pressures and displaced
by slow currents moving from the pole
to the equator. They contain oxygen
in sufficient quantity to sustain animal
life, and are deprived of sunlight.
Is it possible to conceive less com
Portable habitat for animal popula-
ton? No, from our point of view;
but it must not be forgotten that we
are neither fish nor mollusks, and that
everything depends on adaptation to
the surrounding medium.
Among the causes of death of occu-
pied men in general, phthisis and dis
eases of the respiratory organs most
generally cause death. Alcoholism.
gcut, cancer, and suicide are more
common in city life, while in rural and
industrial districts diseases of the ner-
vous and respiratory systems are more
than ordinarily frequent. Phthisis
and alcoholism are far below the aver.
age among agricultural workers. Re-
cords of recent years show that cancer
is increasing slightly, while phthsis
and all other tubercular diseases are
decreasing.
The remarkable marine beetle,
Aepys, believed to be, geologically.
one of the most ancient inhabitants
of the British Islands, and found in
both hemispheres, lives under water
when the tide is in, and on dry land
when the tide is out. The air is it's
natural element, and as the tide rises
the Aepys hides under a stone, where
little globule of air, imprisoned by
it's bristly hairs, remains enveloping it
until the water recedes again. Ex-
periments have shown that if the
Aepys is kept artificially immersed for
a long time it falls into a condition Of
apparent death, but revives on being
exposed to the sun. 1t is relieved to
prey on minute mollusks.
A German scientist has given ano
ther proof of the painstaking nature
of his race in obtaining perfect accu-
racy and the most minute detail of all
things. This savant has measured the
time that is occupied by a wink He
used a special Photographic appara.
tus and fixed piece of white paper
on the edge of the eyelid for mark
He found that the lid descends
quickly and rests little at the bottom
movement Then it rises more slowly
than it fell. The mean duration of the
downward movement was from .075
to .091 of second. The time from
the instant the eye rested till it closed
varied from is to 1t of second. In
rising the lid took IT of second. The
wink was completed in 4 of second.
Lessons by Phonograph.