The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-10-23
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omoRDn Of lime is good to absorb
putrid ef1uvia and TO stop putrefaction.
Use as lime is used.
WE notice that diamond-cutting has
recently been introduced in Birming-
ham, England, where there is every
prospect Of the art reaching flourish
ing state. Recent advices also inform
as that a huge diamond has been dis
covered and brought from the cape.
It weighs 1885, carats in the rough, and
when cut viii be half as large again as
the yorld-renowned Koh-I-Noor.
ACTION OF WATER ON LEAD PIPES.
Robert Christison, who has devoted
much attention to the influence Of water
upon lead IN passing through pipes,
etc., has ascertained that the purest
waters are those which act most pow
erfully upon lead, corroding it, and
forming a carbonate of peculiar and
uniform composition, and that all salts
impede this action, many prevent it alto
gether, some of them doing so when IN
extremely minute proportions.
A CHOLERA SPEmFIC.-A correspond
emit of the Cultivator and Country Gen
tleman writes that one heaping tea
spoonful of -four of sulphur and one
heaping teaspoonful of powdered char
coal, mixed with whisky to the consis-
tency Of cream, and taken after each dis
chsrge, is considered by him almost
specific for cholera. He states that the
above is a very large dose, and that it
viii sometimes check the discharge so
suddenly as to bring on feverish state
in such cases oil or pills viii remove
the bad effects. He says that he has
used this as a remedy in all obstinate
kinds of bowel complaints with great
success. The recipe was obtained from
gentleman who used it while on the
Ohio and Mississippi river boats
NEW AND REMARKABLE CANNoN.
German journals announce that the re-
cent trials of new guns on iron-plated
targets, which took place at Tegel, near
Berlin, fully satisfied all expections.
The shot from the 11-inch ring cast
steel gun penetrated an iron plate u
inches thick, that from the 1O-inch gun
of the same pattern an iron plate of II
inches, and there was force to spare
in both cases. At Krupp's works, at
Essen, trials have been made with the
newly-constructed BOZ centimeters (12-
inch ring cast-steel gun, and the re-
suit justifes the belief that this gun
will pierce IA and perhaps 10 inches of
armor. Thus the strongest iron-clad
now existing, Her British Majesty's ship
Devastation, which is provided with an
armor of IA inches, will no longer be
invulnerable if opposed to such guns.
PoTAToEs PRoscRrBED. Several Ger
man writer's upon races predict that ma
tions, far from improving, viii deterior-
ate both in physical and mental char
acteristics, if potatoes become a princi-
pal article of diet. The celebrated Carl
Voight says that "The nourishing po-
tato does not restore the wasted tissues,
but makes our proletariats physically
and mentally weak" The Holland ply
siologist, Mulder, gives the same judg-
ment when he declares that the Excess
sive use of potatoes among the poorer
classes, and coffee and tea by the higher
ranks, is the cause of the Incidence of
nations. Leidenfrost maintains that the
revolutions of the last three centuries
have been caused by the changed nour-
ishment the lowest workmen, in former
times, ate more flesh than now, when
the cheap potato forms his principal
substance, but gives him no muscular or
nervous strength.