Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1880 — Popular Science Notes. [ARTICLE]

Popular Science Notes.

According to the medical rule, immunity from yellow fever is conferred at an elevation of 4,000 feet above the level of theses. A very interesting feet learned by scientist from fossil zoology is that the brain of about all animals, especially donwerticotod ones, has increased greatly in size the last few hundred years, yet these learned men fail to rive any satisfectory theory forsuch Wenderfal cures for hydrophobia, and the bites of snakes and other poisonous reptiles, have been discovered in two curious plants—ths “guaco,” and the “cedron.” whish grow in abundance in New Grenada, and which are already being propagated in this country, but as yet toalimitedeßtept, —A. M. Clapp, of the Washington X* publican, says that in 1867, he was present at an interview in the late Gay oso house, Memphis, between the late Beniamin F. Wade and General Forrest, ths Forrest was solicitous as to what congress intended to do with the southern states. than in the halls of congress.”