The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-04-27
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TBicHN0sIs-1xsULT or THE RREN0H Nvusff0As
TON As TO THE xxIsTENon AND PR0PAGArIon
OF FHH PORK WORN.


ence To render their investigations more complete
eminent German physicians who had made the disease
in question their especial study. The chief practical
s stsy PREVALENT in has ucp saS
disappeared The mortality was everywhere slight
cep At Hadersleben. At Zwckau, setendorf and SOM
whom died In every case the disease was. causes
| by eating imperfectly cooked pork containing
Germany In Hanover. in twenty-ons months, out q
twenty-five thousand pigs eleven were found full q
wick and four out Of hundred in Blakenbug The
animals while living show signs ofther presence nor
can they be detected In the meat with an ordinary mAg-
nfying glass, but powerful microscope renders Thorn
distinctly visible. The utility OF microscopic nspec-
ton OF pigs flesh by competent observers Ia evidsnt
obligatory, and NM Depech and Rsyna would not hest
tate TO recommend 1t in any country contaminated with
where no ease Of the disease has yet noticed In
Germany the hospitals receive many patients suffering
teen at Magdsburs Of whom only one died Post moi
tenn examinations have also shown among persons whe
died from other diseases numerous cases OF ola rca
proportion Of these at Lepsc has been about six per
hundred In places where the complaint prevshs n
as proved BY Lcserng at Dresden Adam At Augsburg
and Roll at Vienna
amined many Of these animals IS well as pigs without
finding trace Of trchnes Consequently, there is
dcsh especially when thoroughly cooked Is usual
among the French. In Germany, on the contrary.
The most tmId may safely cat the heart kidneys, brain
and fat OF pigs, those parts contain richinsR
NJ DelpeOh and Reynai assert as an undoubted fact
Gent to kill trichines. Meat thoroughly sailed is ass
perfectly safe. Smoke dried sausages which have beea
kept long time, considered free from Danger bat
the wisest plan is TO give them good boiling. The
authors Of the report attribute the spread Of the disease
among pigs the fact that they foul feeders and wiz
any oa such the dead bodies OF rats and other
animals which now known to be liable TO trchinoss
things out Of their reach NM Depech and Reynsl like
wise advise oil expermenters never to throw away ch
missed esh but to burn it as soon as their examnao.
Is completed; for fragment of u carelessy exposed
might be eaten by rat the rat devoured by pig, ana
this last become the cause Of fatal accidents They ~
commend farmers 10 be very cautious IN feeding their
pigs, to avoid giving them Ofal flesh without first boil
ing IT, to destroy rats aud other small carnivorous anil
mails, and to leave human or other excremenA N
places wherapgs can 60.
ADULTERATIoNs OF FOOD EXPOSED BY THE xIoEe
SCOPE.
French writer publishes able article entitled In
Merpeles due Monde Invisible, in which he shows how
people may discover frauds practisod upon them BY dis
honest dealers simply by general acquaintance with the
microscope Thus, while genuine coffee ground to pow
der displays under that instrument quantity Of poly
gonal coils, any adueraton Of the Arabian berry By
means Of torreded sawdust will become evident b.
cause Of tho fbrous texture Of the latter. Purs
milk, seen through microscope between two CLAN
1s o each osr and eSsn
from each other by considerable intervals. But IL We
examine the liquid dishonesty sold for milk We =
once perceive the bres Of ingredient which have
resisted all manipulation. Let take chocolate, which
manufactured with Through the microscope We
that contains fragments Of cellular tissue with bis
of the outer skin of retculated shape then remnants
of the germ and grains Of fecula Aduerated ehocoAts
Is radically different from that Of the genuine article
The leaf Of the plant extremely whom
seen through the microscope and aduiteraed ea may
only grains Of sand but fccua derived from beans -
other puse fragments Of rice celules OF turmcric ~
Of indigo &c. The OF the microscope requires how
ever some preliminary study to make II applicable -
the purpose the author has In view; thus " would -
through the instrument and jot down the principaf
shapes The -four OF for instance contains
iween the ms.ones are crushed and burst 60 tAsa
under the microscope what has tho appearance -
number Of small bags each having Sark s ss = sss
sent this appearance. -.----..---.---
UTILIZATION or THE MARSHES or rRANcn.
French savant has proposed to the Society Of Accl
mstizatlon, Of Paris plan Of utilizing the marshes ~
France, which at present produce nothing but FOYER
and turning down lot ofsbssvers both the plant and
the animal can live In any climate both would b
present large sums are annually sent from France =
America TO purchase beaver skins, which might thus
become articles Of home production.
WHAT IS OXYGEN?
Professor Schoenbeln wres by invitation, his Vows
subject the Scientific Association Of France N
a lengthy communication, from which extract The
that for the last thirty years have almost excls
svcy and unintenuptedly engaged in investigating
collected. with respect to that elementary body Con-
siderable number Of new facts from which think caa
SSs. Ss % ss
active and opposed TO each other; distinguish thea
by the names OF ozone and antozone. 3 Equal quans-
cs OF and antozone neutaze each other In order
to form inactive or neutral oxygen Neutral oxvgN
may be decomposed transformed into equal partS g
mental demonstration Of the correctness Of these pfo
sons Is not simple as for example, that Of the con-
Understand their logical concaicna.ion is abscussy
necessary TO know good many facts relating 70 them
ossns and are %assa w
connected with the generation OF the two active modiss
cations Of oxygen.
WHAT'S THE USE or THE MOON,
NJ Geofroy, Of Paris. asks in an article In the xo.f
eur, what may be the utility OF the moon with regard 10
planet and whether is only there for the pupc.s
ae replies that, besides the great planets that
IRE carried along regula, path round the sun
Of different sizee, moving through space in evory
direction the almost daily discovery Of vast number
of asteroids proves In his opinion the moon WINS oncs
Of those crratc bodies, and, happening day 10
get within the sphere Of attraction OF planet We
Hence the moon IL but an accident rhs
earth had done without II before and might do without
again Venus il about the size OF the EARTH and goes
regularly round the sun, although IL has no satellite.
Why should the earth need onef He continues 10 say
that our moon IS Of no use 70 u because we might per-
aud the best cuogum no can pass on our satellite being
that IL utterly useless he goes further and docarss
that We owe u 10 the merest chance, Il having bcsn
picked up, ~ IL WERE the way; and such thing
might happen again. the author sees no mpossiblity
whatever In our getting day another and perhaps
more still, added 10 stock NJ Geoiroy 10
Of those who deny that the moon Is Inhabited FRS,
because the cold there prevent the poe
sibiity any animal life; and, second, because The
has atmosphere
THE HARDENING or IRON.
French cxperimentalist found, few years sincs,
that by heating toerably free from CARBON with
small quantity OF boron. 10 very high temperature, hs
obtained product which could not be forged, but whsh
possessed extraordinary hardness He has nov found
that equally hard metal may be obtained by adding
20 ordinary cast IRON In fusion, phosphate OF iron and
peroxide Of manganese; he does mention In what pro-
portions. the product cannc, bc forged, bat casts
easily and Is therefore applicable 90 tho construction
Of such machines pare II machines require In their
mafcris extreme hardness rather than tcnseity tho
metal snguisry and the dscovercr
proposes material for bells. He finds that stai
harder metal rs prcdacibie by the addition Of tunsscin