The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1872-08-02
Curious, Useful and Scientific.

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TIE finger nails should only be cut
when the hand is moist; otherwise
there is danger of tearing or breaking
them. us 81
I THE Chinese are said to have made
paper at the commencement OF the
Christian era, from pulp a~rtificially pre-
pared and they and the Japanese are
still the most skillful paper makers in
the world. vs., @
If an icicle forty.fve miles in DIANE.
ter were thrust toward the sun with the
velocity of light, say 12,OOO,OOO miles a
minute, it could never reach the sun,
but would melt as fast as it came.
LONDON was first lighted with gas on
the 2Sth of January, 1907. In lSO6,
Walter Scott wrote There is a mad,
man in London who is trying to light
the city with smoke" la 7+:1c7r Il.
TIE American Journal of Pharmacy says
that 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 10 hgi 49, i. -
A RUSSIAN savant has discovered that
all cholera starts from one of seven
points, situated in or near the Tropic
Of Cancer. From there it is propaga-
ted by atmospheric streams, all of which
we're in active operation in 1856. The
streams are called into being, he says,
by spots on the sun. - ga ,ai y
IT is an interesting fact, not generally
known, that the Sign language" of all
Indians is the same, or nearly the same;
so that if a man meets another, belong
ing to q different tribe, he is able to
converse with him by a of signs,
much in the same ann that deaf
and dumb people converse with one
another.
The "Pilgrim's Progress" which has
been translated into almost every Ian.
guage, has lately been rendered into
the Chinese by q native publisher, on
the mere ground of its great merit as q
religious allegory. IL is said to behand.
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. -H1r- 81
The Taranaki iron sand, which il
found abundantly on the beaches OF
New Zealand, has been converted into
excellent steel by q 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 q kiln, then broken and smelt.
ed in an ordinary cupola furnace.
A cuRsORY examination of the South
African diamond region and its geologi.
cal features has convinced Mr.. John
Paterson, a he recently told the Lon.
don Biologists Association, that the
diggings there "are TO be. no feeting,
passing industry, but n continuous em.
ploymSnt, not only for many years, bu.
for many ages"
An instrument for measuring the pro
portions of the human body, especially
useful as a means of identifying Grim.
Inals, was recently exhibited and de-
scribed by Mr.. j. Bonomi, at a meeting
of the Anthropological Institute. "A
A SCIENTIFIC examination OF the "sul
phuric substance" v hich fell in a shower
Of June II, at Gardner, Mass, ha:
been made by C. T. jackson, State
Asaayer, and Prof. Asa Gray, of Harvard
College, who have decided that il is the
pollen Of the pine tree, which at this
season is found in abundance in the ali
and rain in some localities. -: ri