Connecticut western news., 1871-11-03
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It is said that few drops of coal oil, applied to parts stnug by bees, wasps, or hornets will give instant relief f-Asirono- mers in all parts of the world are now be- ginning to make arrangements for the care ful observation of the next transit of Venus, which occurs, in 1s74.-A paper on Ancient Dentistry, presented to one of the scientific associations not long ago. showed that gold was used by the Romans for filling teeth, and for holding artificial teeth, five hundred years before the Chris tian era.-A span of horses forty-two years old, and still in excellent condition, are daily seen in the streets of Watertown, N. Y.-The richest borax deposits in the Uni ted States are to be found in Nevada, where the area under the control of single com pauy covers twenty thousand acres.-To clean sink pipe that is clogged, take straight poker or stick, wrap one end with a wet cloth (keeping hold of the cloth for safety), and work it up and down few times in the pipe, like a piston.-The people of Louisiana and Mississippi, have found a new source of wealth in obtaining oil from the innumerable pelicans frequent ing that portion of the Gulf coast and quite fleet of small vessels is now en- gagged in capturing them.-A new tele- graph pole is made of galvanized iron tubes, shutting into one anothing in telescopic fashion, for convenience and economy in transportation to distant points.-Mr. A. R. Wallace, who lived for years in the East Indies. says that the popular notions of the gorgeousness of tropical vegetation are incorrect; flowers being less effective in lending color to the landscape than in temperate climates, since they are fewer in proportion to the mass of mere foliage Butterflies have been found flying at sea, six hundred miles from land.-One of our exchanges remarks that ''Mrs. Jones was very careful to get the 'nox- x-explosive' kind, but the lamp blew up all the same, and she died III the old fashioned way."-For coat ing fabrics and tissues with metal, such as copper, silver, and gold, the material is first to be inpregEated with solution of sulphate of copper, in ammonia, and then dried; after which the whole is immersed in warm solution of grape sugar, which develops oxide of copper, upon which sil- yer or gold can be electroplated in the usual way.-The active principles of many plants are found to be more concentrated under the slower growth of cold regions, where the vegetation is less luxuriant than in warm climates thus tobacco grown at the North is stronger than that raised at the South, and the same is said to be true of celery.-A concise list of s'infallible remedies" is given as follows :-''For corns, easy shoes; for bile, exercise; for rheu- matism, new flannel and patience; for gout, toast and water; and for the tooth- ache, dentist. Among the rules given in the sixteenth century for an apothecary's life and conduct, the following deserves preservation; ''That he put not in quid pro quo Chat is, use one ingredient in place of another when dispensing physicians s prescription, )soit7tout adUtsenaent ''-''Keep the door of the hospital closed, and the windows open," was the wise and pithy admonition of Florence Nightingale Cotton-growers and Manufacturers Asso- citation of California, has two thousand acres in cotton.