The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1872-09-20
scieatinc and Practical.

A GERMAN ecientlnc au-
nounces that silk dresses dyed with
picrate of lead are liable to to sponta-
eou combustion.
THE practical value of the much
Landed narrow-gauge railway system IS
to be tested IN England by the con-
.struction of . line with a gauge OF two
feet. g
Tnr number of spots observed on the
sun in 1871 was smaller than that re.
corded in 1870, and the regular de-
crease toward the minimum number is
now going on.
A PAsIs p asserts that a method
of solidifying petroleum has been in
vented, whereby it q be made perma-
nently solid, so that the resulting mass
will burn without liquefying.
BEEr.rEA, if given alone, says a writer
in the Moniteur Seientifque, tends only to
retard the recovery of convalescents.
L. is too deficient in albuminous mate
rial to constitute true food.
A NEW ORLEANS inventor attaches a
small boiler with motive machinery to
a horse car, and fills the boiler from a
generator at a station. Thus the car is
made to run several miles under a
pressure, but without a fire.
THESE are the properties of milk
Water, $40 parts ca~seine, 40; milk SUI
gar, As; butter in oil, 40; phosphate of
lime, IL; phosphate of magnesia, 4;
chloride of potassium, @; common salt,
2; free soda, 3. To draw a dividing
line, the water in milk amounts to $40
parts, while all the other parts swell to
only LOO.
PRoF. PACNIERI records a singular
fact in connection with the recent erup-
ton of Mount Vesuvius. The vaporous
emanations alone were observed to be
charged with positive electricity, while
the ashes alone were charged with mega
tive electricity. Hence electric effects
resulted from the collision of the clouds
of ashes with those of vapor, thunder
and Lightning being produced as in an
ordinary storm. f,
The coast of the Island of New
Guinea is to be explored by a private
expedition from Australia, numbering
thirty persons. Interesting discoveries
in geography and natural science are
hoped for but as each member pays
$500 toward the expenses of the party,
they have arranged to C them
selves against loss by going pearl fish.
ing, in case of failure to effect q land.
ing in New Guinea.
A PHILADELPHIA mechanic has in.
vented a patent filter and cooler that
will furnish cool and pure water, with
out the use of ice. The apparatus,
which consists of an upright cylinder
Of boiler iron, lined, is sunk into the
ground, and gives a temperature of
fifty-six degrees, while the temperature
of hydrant water in the summer aver
ages about eighty degrees. The water
is filtered of every impurity, leaving it
as clear and cool as spring water.
The thrush is said TO work from 2:3O
in the morning until $50 in the even
ing, or nineteen hours. During this
time he feeds his young BOG times.
Blackbirds work seventeen hours. The
male feeds the young forty-four times
and the female ffty-five times per day.
The industrious titmouse manages to
spread Alt meals a day before its vora-
cious offspring. According to n
naturalist, their food consists largely of
c~aterpillars. The eight-hour agitation
has not yet commenced among the
feathered bipeds.
TnE opinion that light was absolutely
necessary to the existence of life, which
formerly prevailed among scientific
men, has been modified by the view of
Agassiz, that The animals of the Man,
moth Cave in Kentucky, including the
blind fish, are aboriginal inhabitants of
their present sbode. Sir Humphrey
Davy, who studied the habit of the eve
less reptiles found in the caves of the
Austrian province of Carniola, came 10
the conclusion that these creatures are
brought from surface lakes through
assures i'll the limestone rocks.
ADDING Poison TO PoIsoN.-There is
no disease in which the blood is not
more or less impregnated with unwhole-
some matter, and the direct, inevitable
effect of all preparations containing
spirituous excitants is TO increase the
volume of poison in the veins, and
thereby aggrayate and prolong the NAL
ady. Hence it is that dyspepsia, bilious
fever, cholera morbus, lung-complaints,
govt, dropsy, rheumatism, nervous dis
orders, and cases of general and local
debility. originally mild in type, are fire.
quently rendered chronic and danger
GUS by dosing the sufferers with the
alcoholic bitters advertised as medicinal
shmulants. As a counterblast to the cdndrds
put forth by tho proprietors of those perni-
cious compounds, the plain, honest, philo-
sophical statements of Or. JOSEPH WALKER,
relative to the nature and effects of his CALI
IoRNIA VINEGAR BIrTERs, are doing a world of
good. He has opened the eyes OF the public
to the important fact that q pure vegetable
tonic and Alternative, u~npolluted by alcohol, if
not an absolute specific for every variety of
olsease, ls the nearest approach to ii yet at
tanned. His VINEGAR BIrTERs are unauestion-
ably working such wonders in affections of the
stomach, bowels, nervous and muscular sys-
TENS, and the glands and respiratory organs.
GOLD wears away in handling. Gov.
eminent officials state that in the sim.
pie counting and transfer of 81, 900, 600
from one vault to another the loss by
abrasion amounts TO Sc
The most astonishing cure Tor chronic
diarrhea we ever heard of is that of VIM.
Clark. Frankfort Mills. Waldo co., Maine: the
facts are attested by Ezra Treat, Upton Treat
M A. Merrill, either of whom might be
addressed for particulars. Mr.. Clark vas
cured by Johnson's Anodyne Liniment.
THEIRS spends his leisure studying
the Greek philosophers and writing and
getting up a book on the philosophy of
pelitics. =
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