Show POPULAR SCIENCE OTES ruby lake bowe eight ago being one of tho largest body of water in the eastern nevada bs entirely dried up and mysteriously dieal pearce leaving a barren waste of ground where it wa BO recently admired as a beautiful sheet of water this lake wag fed by au springs along tain between the and sierra nevada was from eighteen to twenty miles in length and varied in breadth from half a mile to two or three miles and waa very deep in a number of places scientists are baffled as yatin determining the cause of the mysterious and sudden dry ing up body of water A singular case of menial and physical disorder i reported from Mille kentucky a young lady under the treatment of dr T D badea being the subject the young lady is under treatment for a spinal disease and is not able to move about the house without the aid of friends and crutches except when asleep while in that condition asleep she manifests a sort of double ness and can edip around the room ag nimble as if nothing ailed her she also and works out mathematical problems sha recently wrote a latter containing four pages to friend while in thia buli stio state both ayea being firmly closed and doing the writing with her loft hand she also corrected several mistakes in spelling it is estimated that there are on the earth inhabitant of which number die every day of every 1000 persons one rarely reaches the age of years and not more than one in a reach the ago of 80 tall men it is said live longer than short ones and the married are longer lived than the single the inventor of the minimum prof M died recently in paris france at the advanced adv arced age of eighty five forem recent discoveries in mole cukr and heat prof Crook ci F R S haa been awarded prize ol 01 by the french academy of sciences the volta prize of francs or has been awarded to mr grunin bell by the committee appointed by the french minister mini ater of public instructions A most fatal aisea e is raging to an extent in cavana bogn and horses which the ann name or fever cures for hydrophobia and the bites of snakes and other poisonous poi onous rop liles have been discovered in two curious plants the guaco and the cedron which grow in abundance in new grenada and which are already being kropa in this country but as yet to a limited extent A newly invented gatling gun was recently exhibited in england which it is sid is capable of firing 1000 shots per minute and killing a man or a ho sa at a mile range A very interesting fact learned by scientists in fossile zoology is that the brain of about all animal especially ones ha increased greatly in size tho last few hundred years yet these learned men fail to give any satisfactory theory for such being th case according lo 10 the medical rule immunity from yellow fever is conferred at an elevation of feet above the level of the sea an artesian well i being bored in boston in order to determine whether or not there is under the city an adequate ade quata available supply of pure water to extract perfumes from flowers apply methyl chloride previously liquefied and purified by passage through concentrated sulphuric acid an appropriation of has just been made by the legislature at albany to enable the trustee to finish up the great bridge between new york city and brooklyn work is progressing rapidly and will be pushed to an early completion of the structure which will be the largest and finest of tho kind in america if not in the world in order to destroy tho contagious germs which remain in the bodies of such animal an have succumbed to a pestilential disease a new method of cremation has been invented by which the infected an amali are quickly and totally destroyed there has been a kind of shale discovered in pennsylvania which decomposes easily and rapidly and which 11 being considerably aad as a fertilizer and bug killer it is eom posed of sulphuric acid iron alum and humio acid it W that neither the chinch noran bug will attack vegetation growing in a soil fertilized by this material jr THE other half of the moon says the british quarterly could be again rendered partially molten and plastic and the entire masi gently dropped into the southern pacific first being careful to remove the comparatively recent coral erection and to dredge out the vart settle mens and deposits of tho geologic geol ocic ages such an addition to the earths bulk would considerably raise the general soa level but the continent thus restored when it had thoroughly settled to its ancient bearings would really bo little more than the size of the continent of af rica we are by no means proposing such a feat of engineering in fact this is one of the instance in which things are evidently very much better as wo find them than as we might endeavor to improve them T bitof thinks that it will bo sometime yet until the north polo is reached notwithstanding abo minute indications of the route by jules vernc tho fanciful author of sq called science novels the man who beta it as his tak to find the north polo will have to begin his undertaking when he n 20 and continue until be t fifty be causo the explorer must be familiar with tho peculiarities of the aralio acas and fully 30 years is necessary to gain the requisite experience is son where alie wicked bease from troubling aud the weary are at rest we hope be democrat brick rome roy hot not gone aho hia vigorous reason and caustic in the presidential contest without him the coup of po bitica will be without the halt of bat ire v |