The Sun.
London, England, 1859-03-07 00:00:00

SCIENTIFIC JOTTING.'

The Cliniqne Europeene states, according to Pro-
fessor Ragsky's analysis, that in cases of death
from hyprophobia the blood is found to be neutral,
while in its normal state it is slightly alkaline,-
that it contains 79.59 of water, instead of 80, and
has only 2:2 solid parts, instead of 4.42, which it
ought to hove when in a healthy stale.--The Re-
pertoire de Chinzie pare et appliquee gives an ac-
count of a new new method for obtaining rosolic
acid, due to Mr. R. A. Smith. It consists in treat-
ing creosote with a mixture of caustic soda and
oxyde of manganese at the temperate at which
evaporation commences. The mass thus obtained
is dissolved in water, and the rosolete of soda is
decomposed by an acid. The composition of rosolic
acid is : twelve equivalents of carbon, six of hydro-
gen, and two of oxygen. Attempts are being made
to use it in dyeing, since it gives stuffs a beautiful
rose-coulour ; unfortunately, the weakest acid, even
carbonic acid of air, destroys it, but it bears
action of alkalies very Enz has discovered
the existence of saponine in the Arum Maculatum
or Wakerobin. The fresh tubercules of
is
the plant
are treated with acohol ; the tincture obtained
distilled, and the purified alcoholic extract is treated
with yeast, which produces a great fermentation ;
after which a new alcoholic solution is made, which
deposits saponine in small granular crystals.--M.
v
Pavesi, and subsequently M. ee, have succeeded
in obtaining the principle of the Kousso plant,
which is a specific against the tape-worm. This
new substance, which they call _You:sine, or
r alzine, is obtained by treating 300 grammes of
kousso with 1,000 grammes of alcohol and 25
grammes of hydrate of lime, at a temperature of
from 60 to 70 degrees centigrade (140 to 158 Fahr.)
The residue is also digested in 600 grammes of
boiling water. The tinctures thus obtained are
then mixed together,
filted, and precipitated by
acetic acid. Koussine is yellow, bitter, insoluble
in alcohol and in alkalies, and does not crystalise.

ENDOWED SCHOOLS.—A bill brought in by Mr.
Dillwyn, M.P.,Sir R. Bethell, and Mr. Massey enacts that
no endowed school or educational charity shall be deemed
to have been founded for the purpose of affording religious
instruction according to the doctrine of the Church (of
England) exclusively, and that no person shall be disquali-
fied by reason of his dissent from the doctrines or discipline
of the said Church to be a feoffee or trustee of the estates
the Cambridge,
scuhgoorf
Westminster, or personalty of such school or charity, or to be a master or
a scholar therein, iipless the will and intention of the
founder be expressly declared to that effect. The Act 'will
not affect the
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so
emcsatlieidnster, Eton, Harrow, Charter-House,itboyis, the
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Winchester.
A strange affair occurred the day before yester-
day at Belleville. A mason named day
on passing
near a deep well in the Impasse Tonzez, hear' d from the
bottom of it cries for hel-pbroaan.,d,s osnaklei,stegnietngmeheouditrinl-
Fcohrildren I ' He immediately Pro-
catdsthheedafsatsthihseteanrwcooerfd:fa,7iat
a man quite wet and shivering
with cold, was brought out. Thisman said that he
was a journeyman shoemaker living in the Passage aux
Ronces, and that having been drunk he supposed that he
had accidentally
had fallen into the well. He further said that
for
he fancied he been inteltyee
wellthea largo at
stone
but
that there having tuna
bot-
tom, on which he placed his foot, he had been able to keep
his head above water. As, however, the covering of the
well had been fastened down, the police, who were con-
sulted, are inclined to think that the man must have been
thrown into the well, and they arc making an hives-
, tigation