Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-10-04
SCIENTIFIC GLEANINGs.

ct Almond, Mich. The jack wheel Of q
threehing machine burst and killed Al
bert Tucker, who was in charge OF tine
machine.
Lyons, Mich, has leo acres OF pep-
permint under cultivation, and has
made this year 1000 pounds Of pure oil,
and is still at it. The oil is worth s. a
The cost Of the iron bridge to be
erected by the Union Pacific Railroad
Company, over the Missouri river, Will
probably not fall below two millions Of
dollars.
Prof. Whittlesey has discovered evil
dences of the residence of man at the
High Rock Spring, Saratoga, just 1910
years ago, or about six centuries before
the dsluge.
| "A Matchmaker OF Paris has Just
completed watch for the Sultan, val
ued at one million francs. There is .
diamond st the back nearly as large as 2
walnut.
The museum of the Academy Of Sci
enees in Philadelphia ia now receiving
eight large meteoric stones, weighing to-
gether 5000 pounds, discovered in the
Mexicsn mountains by DR.. II. b. Butch
ar, OF that city.
"A Southerner proposes 10 supply the
Boston market with paper stock made
from the cane of the Florida csnebrakes.
He has Invented machine for reducing
it to fiber which he affirms can be sold
in Boston for two cents per pound.
! An Albany mechanic has invented q
| process of manufacturing paper boxes by
pressing the pulp in molds. They come
out fit for immediate use, and can be
made quicker and cheaper than from the
board.
1t is rumorad that movement is on
foot to unite the United States, England
and Russis in grand expedition TO solve
the problem OF the North Pole and its
surroundings. Something of the kind
ought to be done, in order 10 freeze of q
/ few more adventurers.
! 1t was proposed to give the Chinese
an American watch, bat as the Chinese
day consists of only twelve hours, an in
| genious Yankee has undertaken 10 man
ufacture q watch adapted to both the
] Chinese system and the one used in Eu-
rope and America.
An iron msUntsin, five miles long
and two hundred feet high, has been
| found in Golden, III. 1t is worth three
miles of the Illinois Central Railroad,
and q large part OF the land belongs to
\ that corporation. The iron drops out all
along the ridge and ia of extra purity.
Mr.. Rscbterl, of Bremen, has been
exhibiting the newly patented German
whaling gun st New Bedford. The gun
Is double and very heavy, mounted on
| trunniops. Oae barrel is designed for 8
harpoon and the other fOr bomb lance.
I The harpoon is said to have been thrown
a long distance with great accuracy.
Mount Vista, about ten miles from
Saratoga, a bluff rising directly from
some table land to a hight of 500 feet, is
found to be composed OF pure white
sienite granite, equal or superior 70 any
Eastern granite for monumental or other
purposes, with grain so fine that after
dressing it resem bles marble.
The st. Louis bridge over the Missis-
sippi is expected to be completed by the
summer OF 1871, and the st. Louis mer-
chants are anxiously awaiting the dsy.
Now it costs them twelve cents barrel
to send hour 1900 yards aoross the river,
while it costs only twenty cents barrel
to send it to New Orleans, 100 miles
below.
DR.. Fox remarks that under the use
of flannel, local heat is Intensified, and
itching often increased and kept up. he
gives, as q practical rule, - whenever
you have a eongestive state OF the skin,
or any disposition to neuTosis, take of
the flannel and place it, If necessary,
outside the linen, this will prevent any
catching cold"
An organ is now being built in Lon
don for Christ Church Cam6erwell,
which is to have its keyboard placed
fifty feet away from the body of the in
strument. Instead of wooden trackers,
l.. sn
instrument will be played by electrical
agency, IN the same way as telegrsphie
machine may be worked by an operator
at distance.
Work upon the Iron Mountain Rail-
road between st. Louis and the South is
going on rapidly. Track laying will be
Pennington within sixty days, and the
track has already been laid from Bel
mont to Charleston. Fifteen hundred
men are employed upon the line in and
at the tunnel, fifty miles from Bismarck;
four sets of hands are constantly en-
plOyed working night and day. This
tunnel is twelve hundred feet in length.
The japanese manufacture and use
paper to as great an extent az perhaps
any other nation. There are very few
OF their industrial operations that do not
involve the use Of this material. Both
for ornamental and useful purposes it
seems to be the sigs qua non. Fans, Ian
terms, umbrellas, pocket handkerchiefe,
cl0sks and windows are made of il. The
paper strings and hats lately introduced
into this country have been in use for
centuries in Japan.
M. Toumschon, the photographer,
recently performed feat worth record
ing. Having ascended to the hight of
nearly Thousand feet in the captive
balloon at the Hippodrome, Paris, he
succeeded in taking several Photographic
views, accurately representing the
city from a birdseye view. The
chief difficulty he encountered was
the rotary motion OF the bal
loon. His success shows the pfac-
tieabillty of obtaining correct represen-
tatioas of the positions ofmilitary forces
safely and rapidly.
During the recent visit here Of the
Chinese Ambassadors, one Of them
stated in reply to the inquiries OF ply
sician, that it wss not customary In
China, except among the lower classes
Of the people, for the doctor to see or
touch female patients. In order to as
certain the pulse OF the sick woman, 3
string Is tied around her wrist and ex-
tended outside the window TO the doctor,
who holds the string between thumb
and finger, and by this sort of telegraph
ls enabled to count the pulsstions. This
seems ludicrous plan; but it is far less
misehievous than our custom Of admit
ting men doctors to the private apart
ments OF females. The opportunities
for the medical education Of women in
this country are yearly increasing and
we hope the day is not far distant when
the ladies viii be able to rout the men
from the sick room, and compel thsm to
stand out in the cold, under the window
sill. In China only women nurses at
tend during childbirth.
We have in our house little inyen-
ton which we have several times no.
tieed In other dwellings, but having no
direct interest in It's operation we have
not paid much attention to its working.
1t is little thing and stands ~ 10 lit
tie shelf in our sleeping room but In an
emergency il Is capable of making
good deal Of noise and impartiBg useful
information. 1t is an electric alarm,
with wires entirely concealed from the
eye, and which run from il to the doors 1
and windows and scuttle Of the house;
and should any Of these bs disturbed, the
alarm is st once si,unded. BY means
IT tell-tale" it can be sseertainsd at