Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1872-06-06
Scientific Nenasranda.

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Perfect anesthesia may be produces
and sustained for a long time without tht
usual danger by administering subcuta
eous injection of hydrochlorate of morphin.
about hall an hour before the inhalation
of chloroform. Mrs, l.. Liable and G.
Guyon.)
There are no leeches or mosquitoes il
-Thibet, nor are maggots or feas ever seer
there. and in Dingcham or Thibet proper
there are no bees or wasps. A curious
disease, known as goomtook, or the laugh.
ing disease, at times attacks both the men
and women of this country. 1t is attend
ed by excruciating pain in the throat
and often proves fatal in few DAYS.
(Dr. Cambell, Superintendent of Darjeoll-
ing.) s.
The diving-bell has been successfully
nsed in mines in Westphalia that were
flooded w;:h water, for the purpose of re-
pairing the valves of the pumps.
The restoration of the writing on man.
uscripts charred by fire may, it is said :;
be accomplished by separating the charred
paper into single leaves, ,immersing the min
a solution of nitrate ef silver forty grains
to the ounce of water). The operation is to
be conducted in dark room, ,and when the
writing is sufficiently legiblc, the excess of
silver solution should be washed out with
distilled water and dilute solution of by
posulphite of soda. (Am. Arttzan)
NJ. Quetelet holds that virtuous and
vicious acts are products not merely of
the individual who does them but of the
society in which they take place. 'sThe
wealthy and educated classes, whose live
seem to themselves as free from moral
blame as they are from legal punishment,
may at first hear with no pleasant surprise
q theory which inculpates them as sharers
in the crimes necessarily resulting from
the state of society which they are inAu-
ential in shaping"
Remains of pteroaactyls. orwinged rep
tiles, found by Prof o. c. Marsh in the
cretaceous shale of Western Kansas. show
for one individual an expanse of both
wings equal to nearly twenty feet. and for
another twenty-feet. America therefore
not only possessed its pIerodactlys, but
they are the largest that have as yet been
found.
The great stone monuments of England,
like Stonehenge. are supposed by Mr..
James Ferguson to be military trophies,
erected in the time of King Arthur on the
by the victorious armies.
Dr. Shaw states that the diamonds of
South Africa originally belong to some
rock, probably talcose slate,
which occupied the heights during the
upheaval of the trap which has given to
the country its physical features. This
upheaval was followed by period of lakes,
the traces of which still exist, and it is in
The soil of these dried-up lakes that the |
diamonds are found. Prof. T. II. Jones, |
on tie contrary, thinks that the diamonds |
ire supplied both from metamorphic and |
gneous rocks, and that the gravel in which |
hey arc found has been conveyed by |
ylacial action from very remote moun- |
aims.
Water-2ro IF leather for various purpose
$ now prepared by exhausting the air
rom the pores of the leather and filling |
hem up with substance which unites
With and p ,rmeates the material without
njuring the elasticity
In Saxony the children of the lower
lasscs are compelled by law to attend the
vening schools for three years during the !
ime they are apprenticed to o trade.
rhe education of such children is thus
orced beyond the mere rddiments. and
,axony, hitherto in the van of the educa-
ional movement, promises still to hold
Ter place.
Through the agency of the Iron and
,teel Institute of Great Britain, impor-
ant Improvements in pudding by the
se of machinery are to be introduced,
nd the Iron manufacture relieved from
be uncertainties of the present system of
and pudding This desirable result Is
ntirely owing to the efforts of the society
1 question, and is an illustration of the
reat advantages resulting from united
ction among manufacturers.
The z ,o!ogical Station soon to be estab-
shed at Naples is to be placed about
90 feet from the Mediterranean Sea and
FINISHED with great tanks, through which
continuous stream of sea water is to
ass. In these aquaria various creatures
ON the adjoining waters are to be placed
nd their reproduction and develops
ent studied by competent observerd.
biological and physiological laboratories
nd commodations for the officers are also to
and every facility afforded for
le study of embryology. The important
,sults to be obtained from the systematic.
lreful investigation of such phenomena
IN not be overestimated, and it is to be
,ped that we may before long record the
of similar stations in eur
yn couutry.-Scribner's for June Sff