Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-08-02
Curious. Useful and Scientific.

The finger nails should only De cut
when the hand is moist; otherwise
there is danger of tearing or breakin g
Them go ss ~@sa sA'>@ @'~ ss.ss 4
TIE Chinese are said to have made
paper at the commencement of the
Christian era, from pulp artifcially pre-
pared and they and the Japanes csc are
still the raost skillful paper makers in
the world. !. o-ssa.se -, ! 80 3 I,
If an icicle forty-fve miles in diane.
ter were thrust toward the sun with the
velocity of light, say 100000 miles a
minute, it could never reach the sun,
but would melt as fast as it came. 30
LONDON was first lighted. with gas on
the 18th of January, 1907. In 1906,
Walter Scott wrote g There is a mad
man in London who is trying to light
the city with smoke" - -
THE american Journal of Pharmacy says
thai 10000 infants are killed every
year by the opium contained in the
various kinds of soothing syrups which
they are allowed, or rather forced, to
drink fE ~ % Y<1ErgE%k /
n IOUSSlAN StfdilU ulOCOFCICo
all cholera starts from one of seven
points, situated in or nearsthe, Tropic
of Cancer. From there it is propaga-
ted by atmospheric streams, all ofWhich
were in active operation in 1866. The
streams are called into being, he says,
by spots on the sun. ~ .ss3 aET
IT is an interesting fact, not generally
l. l. ,~f oIl
Indians is the same, or nearly the same +;
so that If man meets another, belong
ing to a different tribe, he is able to
converse with him by means Of signs,
much in the same manner that deaf
and dumb people converse with one
another.
THE "Pilgrim's Progress" which has
been translated into almost every lam
guage, has lately been rendered into
the Chinese by a native publisher, on
the mere ground of its great merit as a
religious allegory. 1t is said to be hand
somely printed. The illustrations are
of course all Chinese in their cast, and
Christian and Hopeful each have their
inevitable queue dangling from their
heads. G5&8AM #<E
THE Taranaki iron sand, which is
found abundantly on the beaches OF
New Zealand, has been converted into
excellent steel by a simple and eco
nomical process. 1t is mixed with an
equal quantity of clay, and of the or
binary sea sand, which contains a large
admixture of shells. The mixture is
worked up into bricks, which are hard
ened in a kiln, then broken and smell
ed in an ordinary cupola furnace. J
A CURsoRY examination of the South
African diamond region and its geologi-
cal features has convinced Mr.. John
Patel son, as he recently told the Lon.
don Biologists Association, that the
diggings there "are to be no feeting,
passing industry, but continuous en-
ployment, not only for many years, but
for many ages" tzsesaa.&
AN instrument for measuring the pro
portions of the human body, especially
useful as a means of identifying Grim.
mails, was recently exhibited and de-
scribed by Mr.. j. Bonomi, at a meeting
of the Anthropological Institute.
A SCIENTIFIC examination of the "sul'
phuric substance" W HIGH fell in shower
of June II, at Gardner, Mass, has
been made by G.. 7. jackson, State
Assayer, and Prof. Asa Gray, of Harvard
College, who have decided that it is the
pollen of the pine tree, which at this
season is found in abundance in the all
and rain in some localities. 1@G