The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1904-07-07

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". Eoualt has found that trees may
&c ir;i!.>Dlintel in full foliage in May
c" Jun, with little or no injury if the
moving is done at night This has
been demonstrated to the entire salts
faction OF prominent French hort;-
cu,t,lrists.
The report Of the English turbine
commission. to determine the advan-
1ages of turbine over reciprocal ting en-
Sines for the TO-000-horse- power new
Cunarders. shows that the economy Of
turbines on the English Channel is
only two to four per cent, and that
the saving of weight will be only 800
tons. ~ - ="
The Boston Natural History So
cety is preparing complete lists Of
the fauna of New England, of which
the first part, containing the reptiles.
has been issued in Occa sional Papers.
These. lists are to prepare the way for
complete illustrated monograph of
the fauna which the society proposes
to furnish. - - r y
For some time astronomers have
tried to adapt the stereoscope to as
tronomy. says Cosmos, Paris, and very
satisfactory relief photographs Of the
moon have been obtained by taking
views at sufficiently long intervals
and utilizing the slight swinging of
the moon to and fro in space. The
moon appears in exaggerated relief.
An Austrian statistician finds that
tie average lease Of life of a medical
practitioner is sixty years. Deaths
due to tubercu.ar consumption only
amount among them to seven per
cent, thus Showing how careful they
are in taking precautions against in
lection. On the other land, fully
forty per cent. of doctors die of heart
disease ard nervous collapse.
a correspondent to an English
science journal announces that an
archaeological undertaking Of an in
portant character is about to be set
on foot, namely, the complete .exca-
vation of Herculaneum. It is pro-
posed that this vast work should be.
carried out by the cooperation Of
| Italy with all civilized countries, and
that there should be central manag-
ing committee in Rome, with national
committees elsewhere.
A committee has been appointed by
he Council of the Library Association
Of Great Britain to consider the ques-
ton of the deterioration Of modern
binding feathers and to suggest a
remedy. A circular is being issued to
the chief libraries in the United King
dom with the view of ascertaining,
among other matters, what effective
support is likely to be Forthcoming
from librarians in favor of Fathers
of the standard specified by the So
ciety of Arts Committee. -
One of the curious devices offNature
for scattering seeds is seen in the bal
loon plant of California. The fruit is
yellow, and is a little larger tlan an
egg. It has the appearance of an empty
bag. not of solid, but it contains Il
watery substance which evaporates or
dries up when the fruit natures. a
sort of gas taking its place. This gas
is lighter than air, and the fruit fips
back and forth in the wind until it
finally breaks loose from its slender
stem, rises into the air to height Of
from seventy-fve to hundred feet,
and sails away to fall in some distant
spot. and thus extend the growth of
its kind.
In his work as Director Of the In
dian Meteorological Department. Sir
John Eliot has found that while one
hemisphere of the earth. which in
cludcs Europe, Southern Asia, Africa.
India and Australia. is experiencing
high atmospheric pressure on the aver
age. the other hemisphere, which in
cludes North and South America and
Siberia. is experiencing deficiency OF