Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1851-05-24

very remarkable aeroEe came 10 earth last week In th
village Of Largnac, department Of Lot in France In its al
struck and broke down the seePie Of the church TIT
Academy of Sciences three Of its members from Paris
examine the aeroie. They report that the matter Of ,b
diamond prevails in the gangse, partly schstous and ammo
nacal, Of this heavenly body.
The above phenomenon would seem to cooborse an opi
ion recently published BY M. Petit director of The Observa
tory at Toulouse. He says, in the Journal de Toulouse
"The earth Is at this passing region Of space
which taversed ny an nnumeabe quantity Of small pla
Notary bodies placed for the part between our globe and
the sum- This is one Of the principal Of the falling
the temperature experienced at present. and which will pro-
baby continue till about the 18th or 18th Of May for the
earth will not have entirely escaped till about that date from
the influence Of the meteoc nebulosy which now environs
It is very likely that the passage Of our gote athwa
veabe cloud of asteroids will be sgnaized by the falling
several stones"
is sitting before the last upon ohydrc ether az
newly discovered anesthe,ic agent. He says:
'The theory which have developed in several of my
ranked bromhydrc ether among those agents which,
in presence Of humid oxygen, projecting animal
against slow combustion, antsepc after DEATH and,
cordng the dose, sedatve anphlogs and poson pro-
ducng asphyxy during e Those of the agents moderatng
slow combustion, which belong to this class necessarily
anesthess when they penetrate into the circulation in su
cen doses. When they have not acrd taste they
anesthess By inspiration, the point of ebullon,
lower than 500, O76o Fahrenheit permits them emit
considerable quantity of vapor at ordinary temperatures
they merely aneshesic locally By application, if their
point of ebuliion is too elevated.
Bomhydric ether, which bols at 400 T. Close so Fab
renhei) which possesses neither acd causc taste,
which weak and very agreeable odo united there
FORE in my opinion the conditions useful to constitute an
aneshesc agent by inspiration and have failed,
raj months ago. class my sealed PACKAGES with Others
which there specified agents not yetemPoyed but which
should possess the aneshesc property by inspiration. Cir
cumsances have at last permitted me make the trial Of il.
Its properties really such theory would Indicate Its
vapor quickly deprves birds Of sensation they readily re-
the activity Of life and do exhibit, either during
after the experiment. any sign Of suffering. Birds with which
have repeatedly experimental, four days ago.
full life Bromhydrc ether, therefore, is offered for aught
that present appears one very anes-
thesc agents The low point Of ebullon Of chlo,hydrc
ether renders its habua mpracicabe except in cold
countries in the winter Of temperate climates.
Bromhydic ether speak, another chlorhydric ether
with point of ebuton different, and adapted c-
mates"
The gentleman at the sitting, also presented
paper upon the advantages of reced aromatized coalo
(huk de ho,l employed for the preservation of anima
and vegetable substances" He says
have the honor Of submitting to the examination Of the
Academy portion Of flesh which, notwithstanding the pre-
Of damp air. has been preserved by the vapor which
coalol ems ordinary temperatures This mode of pre-
servaton. extremely cheap, keeps flesh for time
in all its freshness In economical point of view well
in the satisfactory character Of lis results coao has evil
IDENTIFY many advantages the liquors hitherto employed
in The specimens which in the museums are
kept immersed in these liquors are is true, preserved from
putreacton but they undergo changes they are longer
fresh animal substances whereas entire Birds with their
feathers, us Of every age placed in well stopped boes at
the bottom of which has been placed little coao have
perenced no change whatever.
The conservative property Of coaoil is applicable,
have said 10 first note to vegetable well animal sub
stances The bo,anst will for the preservation Of fruits
and flowers. Experiments process Of execution
indicate that certain flowers may be thus preserved with
the appearance of life and without any very notable change
OF color In all external applications where the object to
pain and Inflammation, this substance may be
used substitute for the essential oils of plants for ether
for camphorated alcohol and for chorform and other
costly substances which possess known virtue, rendering
them superior to recifed and aromatized coal-oil."
M. MArrHIEU, in the of the section Of astronomy
eighteen candidates for the post correspondent
vssant by the decease Of NJ. Schumacher. Mr.. Hind of
London, comes alone in the first rank Mr. William Bond
of Cambridge, Massachusetts, occupies alone the second rank
and sixteen gentlemen from various countries occupy the
third rank Mr. Hind has been elected by an almost unan
nous vote. t.
attended last evening the general sitting of the "Na
tional Industry Encouragement Society,"" to which made
aluson in late letter. This meeting had hear the
reports of its financial officers and distribute the medals which
had been accorded by the society reward of the
table improvements effected in the various branches Of French
industry during the year. The PRESIDENT Dumas, having,
suspended by broad red iband about his neck the of
the Legion Of Honor, distributed, with great a.by and
kind word for each recipient some thirty medals Of bronze,
pana, silver, and gold The society founded in 1902,
and appears to be in highly Aoushing condition. My in
forman the other day mistaken the number Of
das to be awarded, exceptionally, to American inventors
There but It medal Of silver Samuel Cor
nell of Greenwich, for his machine for the fabrication Of
leaden pipes. e....... w.. ~" .>