Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1871-11-18
CURIOUS AND SCIENTIFIC.

= NOhAyND AND ~ I'm llII ILs
Two-thirds Of all the zinc produC
n ed is manufactured into sheets. Th
3 remainder is employed in maxim
: brass, in wire, in zinc.wbite as a sui
stitut3 for lead in paints and for cast
ings. The two chief requirement
for zinc sheets are roofing AID sheath
ing the bottoms of ships.
An English chemist has been cx
perimenting for the purpose Of as
ccrtaining how much OF variou,
kinds Of food must be eaten in order
to make one pound Of flesh. lie
comes to the concluson that requir.
es p pounds Of milk, TO of turnips.
30 Of potatoes, 80 OF carrots, S OF oat-
mea, 7ia of barley meal, and 3l9 0
beans.
Some recent preparation have
/ proved dangerously explosive on
being mixed by the apothecary. A
lady in England recently put a box
otpills which had been prescribed
for her in her bosom. In a short
time there was q severe explosion.
aud she was badly burned. The re-
cipc was mixture Of oxyd OF silver,
muriat OF morphia ard extract of
gentian.
a Western physician successfully
used ipccGcuanha in delirium trem.
ems. lie first gave il as an cmctic.
and afterwards from u to IS grains
every other hour. Connected with
this remedy he used shower baths.
and let the patients frequently drink
strong heet tea, without any alco-
holic stimulants. 1t quoted the encrv-
ou5 system, excited the appetite, act
ed Oh secretion, and uniformly pro-
duocd sleep, curing the patients in
nearly every case.
Prof. i. A. Gould, who has gone to
the Argentine Republic to take charge
of the National Observatory at Cor
dova, writes home very enthusiastic.
cally in regard to the splcndors of
the Southern heavens. lie saws the
naOuiG.nnnn nf tho NI;1l.,, W.,
indegcriEaiIo nvL;L;.;na III I'm WY 10
tfrs tho sigbt ,ybioh ', hro,5l.h mup 'lu'. US
toioscono n,.oI.a. ~ "+'en nrn,aio, my II we
delight and surprise from every be.
viii or vi,ho,,' ' ,["' n'oriio0H ",,H "He,lcI
nation WV" ''''' 0"0'ni0'' Inlor'
w.
4hG stevens lhSl'ute OF Iechno-
io3y has an cIectro'ma made i'll
Allsoilla' dHa Cghi, Whlch weighs about
l,o?o pounds, and mas lt14ng force
eSLilllt'eu ma sUo at between ~ and oO tons.
Aooat tOo POUNDS OF copper wire,
ohe-Hi'o oi an men ihlck: Is wound
Nv III oJ,o, noho,, WI . i"CteS I; ni9I'
Tbo coros % oro b,I,au y-a,u' nui o,"!licter' q :L
IN dioH,otor "' ~. nC''S"; . S,o uHu lncneS
icn,(1b T5i, =; r1oomat -" ,vI' ,Lo,t i"o.t' III
i'm. a, Inno,'s'1 ',% "U' - @OouI , llEu
Faro5 " f. XIX t%r fa ,o,' 40 ,,n. use! D!
- '''' ''' no '''i'o"' i'S''''ne''
from Q paper on the vertebrate
animals OF Australia, lately publish
ed by Mr. hreitt, the Curator of the
Sidney Museum, we learn that no
Woodpcckers or hnmming-birds have
ever been met with in that country.
Among birds, the parrot is the most
prominent, there being more than
sixty species. Reptiles abound,
among them a species Of crocodile,
lndividua of which frequently grow
TO the extraordinary length of thirty
!I', !Gc', i ano occasion inuca trouble 10
,,5 .'lG Io,oI..',s' no one OF 'he hYe ve-
1ol'lVu' jIlI,y sHaNeS H oi the country IS so
""a"!! ,,I,'''i as s ne, .Hc E"g.lsh VIPER Inc
= 0iIi .-'.I. oga VI t SHOWN harmless species
Is seNei'! -li'c'
Among recent discoveries in fossil
botany Is the occurrence Of three or
TOUR species OF tree ferns, like those
OF the coal period, in the Devonian
formation OF New York and Ohio, !
which underlles the coal. BY this
discovery, made by the geological |
surveys OF those States under the di- |
recucn OF Prots. Hall and Ncwbercy !
respectively the existence of those |
terms is carried back as far
as the bottom of the middle Devo-
man. One Of them, says DIR. Dlw- |
son, ihclr describcr, has the cellular
structure and vascular bundles in