The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-05-20
Curious and Scientific.

AMONG the astronomers who went
from England to Sicily to observe the
late eclipse, were two women, appoint
ed to take observations with the spec
troscope
New JERSEY nail mills are manufac-
turing q new patent nail, for which
they have secured 8 State right It has
a serrated edge, and It's superiority IS
said to be manifest in work where any
jolting motion may have tendency to
shake the nail loose
THE strongest vegetable fibre known
is said to be that of New Zealand fax
1t has sword like leaves, tep or twelve
feet III length. 1t is used 10y The set
tiers for binding their sheaves, fasten-
ing their gates, tying up their horses,
and IN almost every possible way.
IN ordinary flight, the house-fy
makes about 600 strokes with it's wings
in a second, and is carried through the
air about five feet; but if alarmed. the
velocity can be increased SIX or seven
fold, SO as to carry the insect thirty or
thlrty-fi feet in that brief time.
A CURIOUS experiment was tried IN
Russia with some murderers. They
were pldtttt. NltIltuU h'EoNtIB Ii, IL
four beds where four persons had died
of the cholera They did not take the
disease. They were then told that
they were to sleep III beds where some
persons had died of malignant cholera,
but the beds We're, in fact, new and had
not been used at all Nevertheless
three of them died of the disease with
In four hours
THE English Mechanic says that when
a living oyster is opened, the liquor in
the lower shell, if viewed through a
microscope, will be found to contain
multitudes of small oysters, covered
with shells, and swimming himbly
about. One bundled and twenty Of
these little oysters extend but single
inch. The liquor also contains va
riety of animalcula, and myriads of
worms of three distinct species.
PROBABLY the most curious ant IL the
world is the parasol ant of the West
Indies. Df. Forbes Wihsicw; ii his
work on Light" says these ants walk
III long procession, each one carrying a
cut-leaf over its head as parasol, III the
sun, and they deposit these in holes
ten or twelve feet under ground, APP
parently with no other object than to
form a comfortable nest for a species
of white snake, which is found in them.
THE use of perchloride of iron is
recommended for rheumatism by DR..
Reynolds, in the British Medical Jour
nal 1t is claimed for this remedy that
it relieves the joints in from one to
three days, and shortens the duration
of the fever; and the sooner the iron is
given the shorter will be the duration.
The dose is from twenty to forty drops
every six hours.
EXPERIENCE with cast-iron beams in
architecture has convinced the best
Judges that it can never be known,
whatever care is taken, whether the
girders when made will be as strong as
expected. They are never to be de
pended on and the accident at Kings
College, where the whole dining room
was destroyed by the giving way of an
imperfect cast-iron beam, should pre-
vent their use henceforth in any case
where wrought iron can be substituted.
The WIND Is TEMPERED TO THE SHORN
LAMB, otherwise the delicate organiza-
ton of woman could never bear UP
under the severe trials which it is hen
lot to endure. As a means of sustaining
her strength, and bringing her safely
through the difficulties and dangers OF
which she is by nature the helress, nc
medicine ever prescribed is comparable
| to DIR. WALKERS VEGETABLE VINEGAR
| BIrrERs. La all arrangements of the
female system it restores regularity
and promotes physical vigor an6
mental repose.