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About The Oregon register. (Lafayette, Yamhill County, Or.) 18??-1889 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 6, 1888)
Lafayette Laundry. Tile Oregon ZRegrister just been made that small diamond lafaykttx X X eoon . corpuscles have been obtmned from _ JANUARY \ SCIENTIFIC MISCELI. AX Y PETROLEUM FORMATION. The theory is held by Prof. Men- deleef that petroleum is not of ani mal or vegetable origin, as is gener ally supposed, but is produced by water which penetrates the earth’s crust and comes in contact with glowing carbides of metals, especi ally of iron. The water is decom posed into its constituent gases, the oxygen uniting with the - iron, while thé hydrogen takes up the carbon, and ascends to a higher region, where part of it is condensed into mineral oil. and part remains as natural gas, to escape wherever and whenever it can find an outlet. If this assumption is correct, and a sufficient store of metallic carbides is contained in the earth’s .interior, petroleum may continué' to be formed almost indefinitely, and yield a supply of fuel long after the coal has become exhausted. Prof. 'Mçndeleef supports his views by producing artificial petroleum in a manner similar to that by which he believes the natural product is made. » f PARLOR PHYSICS. An astonishing experiment may be performed with nd apparatus but a piece of string five or six feet long. A person’s'hands being held over his ears, this string is passed around his head by another person, who holds both ends in one hand, and by drawing the fingers or nails 'of the other hand over the cord pro duces upon the tympanum tof the subject impressions of almost start ling intensity. Sharp peals of thunder, changing into a distant and prolonged rumbling, are effects that may be readily given. * In visits to nearly forty tribes iff American Indians, Dr. J. S. New1 berry has found twenty-three kinds of native vegetable products includ ed in the Indian dietary, besides a great variety of nuts and berries. In Germany ven- nearly twelve pounds of sugar are now made from a hundred pounds of beets, the cost of the product being only two cents per pound. A MAN-MEASURING INSTlUfTIOM. A knowledge of bow one’s powers compare with those of Jus. fellows- might be of advantage in several ways, such as in showing what weak poiqU need strengthening, in determining the work l>est suited to the individual, and in suggesting the attributes which a fif-partner should possess. Mr. Frància Gal- ton has long been éiigagôl in per fecting apparatus for the accurate measurement of all the lodile facul ties, and is now considering the es tablishment of a permanent anthro pometric laboratory, similar in plan to the temporary one that recently proved so popular in London. Çor a small fee. this laboratory would provide accurate measurements not only of a person's height, weight. * „chest capacity, muscular strength. .XÌnd swiftness, but of the efficiency of his various senses, and even of certain limits of mental power. Du plicates of these measurements would be preserved,—some for pri vate reference only, and others for public use. A lil>rary would be connected with the institution. in which would be placed such docu menta, together with family records and works bearing on anthropology, and instructions for home measure- * ment Would be given. rUAMOND-BEABiNO METEORS. Carbon has now been yielded by I meteorites in three stages of devel-1 opement. fncrystallired graphite ! has long been known as a ronstit- ' uenl of meteoric irons and stones, and graphite crystals were recently 1 found in a meteorie iron from west-1 cm Australia, while the report has I » meteoric stone which fell in Rus sia in 1886. It is suggested that these discoveries may point out the r ad to the artificial production-«/ eeef ghabdise the diamond. „ -r At a French agricultural society —West Chehalem, Oregon,— wheat is soaked in acetate of lead solution six hours before sowing. Wishes to inform the people of West Chehalqjn, and vicinity, The seed is said to germinate more quickly and grow more vigorously that he keeps ou hand, a com plete stock of than wheat ¡subjected to any other fertilising treatment , An English chemist has devised CROCK RIAS. HATS, CAPS. an economical process of reclaiming soap from washing solutions. // G C l M e ^ DRY GOODS, ' * PROGRESS OF DENTAL CARIES. Russian observations have shown that teeth decay in a quite regular order, the lower third molar being first attacked, then the upper, then the lower fourth molar, and so on, the lower incisors and canine teeth being the last affected. »Upper teeth as a rule are more durable, than lower, right than left, those of dark persons than those of blonds, those of short persons than those of the tall. BOOl^S & SHOES and TINWARE. In fact every thing usually found in »country store; which he proposes to sell as cheap as can be bought in 1 Yamhill County. ia»Highest market price paid for produce, j Herr Most is a judge of prisons. Austria sent hiui to prison for one year in 1869, and in‘18“0 repeated with five years. On his release he went to Prussia and got sucessively a year and a half for anarchy, and six months for blasphemy. He then went to England and soon got a year and a half for anarchy. Then be came to this, country where he has done a year already and has just got another. S. P. Rounds, well known by re putation to all printers of the north west, formerly as a type foundry man of Chicago, afterwards as gov ernment printer at Washington, and- recently as a resident editor of Omaha, is dead. Notice lor Publi. ^Williams and. Hibbs merchant tailors . NOTICE FOR PVB1 If you want anytiiing in t£b.e line of Containing Over Twenty Thou. Kami Articles on Promin ent People. Farming Implements AND I WILL MAKE YOU MONEY, FOR This stan.iahi work is th« only National Cyclopedia oi Biography in this country, and is worthv to rank with the great na tional works of its kind in the Old World, Buggies, Carts, Hacks. Wagons. Bufori plows, and a full line of farming imp-e- now being published in England, Ger meats. Am Agent for the Celebrated Steel Skein LaBelle Wagon, the many. and Belgium. Rol in the World. _____ No name eminent in literature, art. musk-, science or invention will be omitt ed. “I Am Underselling Them All.~ Notice for Pubi Notice of Appointl ’ccutor. PETERSON’S MAGAZINE OF LITERATURE, ART, AND FASHION Notire i* hereby fives list i has been duly appointed byk of Yamhill county, ('n-goe,« last Will and teaUment ol Muy Therefore all p- rsone harsc the eetate of said decedent» to present them with proper r undersigned at Payton, OeF months from the date hereof. . Dated this 18th day of S* JOBS T, I 1887. F cttox At FtVKIX, A Homey* tur Esule