Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-07-09

partially fills It. lhc tube l. thcll "lll"rl"i
and Il short nlia-rubbcr tube attached ut
its open end Into this mercury is poured +;
that in the bulb is boiled to cxprl the air,
which rises up through the mercury III the
lnda-rubbcr tube, an,! an atmosphere Of the
vapor of mercury now fills the glass tube and
bulb As this condcnScS, the mercury IN the
indurubbcr tube takes its place, when th,
tube, with any mercury remaining, IN 1t Is re-
moved. The tube is now warmed and the
open end of the glass tube is Theoretically
sealed.
The bulb and portion Of the tube are i'm
mcrscd in melting ice, and the heI9ht OF the
mercury marked they are then transferred
to Il bath of g. degrees Fahrenheit, and the
height marked; next to Il bath at 81 degrees
Fahrenheit, and the height marked again.
The lengths of the three spaces 80 degrees
arc now carefully measured If they are tx.
act!y equal the bore Of the tube is assumed
to be uniform, and the degrees laid off ON the
brass scale Of the thermometer are all made
of the same length. lfthc space Of the thirty
degrees each are not found to be exactly equal,
then, by means Of highly ingenious divid-
ing engine the degrees Oh the scale are made
to increase in length as the caIibcr Of the
tube dimini<hcS. When the plate has been
divided, and the figures and letters punched,
it is passed, atcrallv between two rollers, to
remove the burr left by the tools. Were it
rolled lcngthwiSc, the accuracy Of the divid-
ing would be impaired. The plate is then
silvcred and lacqucred, the 6 lass tabc attach
cd, and the whole >idden into the well.known
japanncd tin case.
TIE POWER OF MIND OVER BODY.-lhc
sccrclons are arrested or made active by
nerve influence Nursing mothers who give
way to anger or other emotions poison their
own milk, whereby the infants heart IL often
injured for life, if he be not killed outright.
The bowels are purgcd by bread pills (as was
once proven on large scale by the Emperor
Nichola<l provided people arc told they are
to be purged; eighty out Of one hundred hos.
pital patients have been vomitcd by a neutral
remedy, when told "thcrc had been mistake
make and they had all taken cmctics." Much
sc:-sicknc<s would be avoided if people could
be made to believe they were not going to
have it. The $tgmata, or marks of the nails
on the Savior's hands and feet, have been
plainly seen to appear on the corresponding
portions of the bodies Of certain of his more de-
vout followers, among whom st. Francis Of AS
<isi must be special ynamcd Yet ought we not
to lose from our sight the possibility that these
occurrences, however unqucstionablc they be,
are yet simply owing TO an action OF the I'M
agination, whereof notable instance is rclat-
ed upon authority of great weight \ moth
cr sawa window.sash descend with violence
upon her little child's fingers, whcrcupon she
herself was instantly seized with extreme
pains in her own fingers, which did attcrward
swell and intlamc in such a manner that she
was long in being cured. The flkirs Of In
dia are sometimes able to divcst themselves
of the signs Of litc-respralon and rircua-
tion being stopped and bodily temperature
lowcred-for months continually. The pain
Of toothace vaniShcs at sight ola dentists
chair neuralgia once disappeared rs the lcc-
turcr was about to enter on an operation for
its relief; most functional, and even some or
ganic, affections (as dropsy) may be cured by
givinga patient the idea that he Is to be cur
ed and the well atte>tcd list Of modern mir
aclcs is in the same category Of tacts.-Dr.
Btvrn,Sequard.
FEEDING MEAL To Cows.-Thc best way
to give meal to COWS is either to mix it with
with some cut hay, moStcncd 50 that the meal
will adhere to it, or to scald it and give it in
the shape of Il thin cruel as Il drink. In the
first place it is necessary to perfect digestion
that the saliva should be mixed with the
food and that the food should be returned
from the first stomach to the mouth for 4
second chewing or rumination. This is only
done when the food is bulky, requiring con-
siderable chewing In the second place the
gulIct, or passage from the mouth to the
stomach, in ruminants, opens directly into the
third stomach, having intermediate lon9ltu-
dinal openings closed by lips, by which the
food enters the first and second Stonachs. If
the food is bulky and solid, it separates the lips
Of these openings and finds an entrance TO
either or both the first and second stomach.
If otherwise, it passes over the closed lips and
enters the third stomach In the first case,
by periodic inverted action Of the gullct,
the food is thrown in small quantities from
the stomachs to the mouth where it is rcduc-
ed to q soft scmi-liquid condition, in which
state it is passed easily to the third stomach
for Digestion In the second place it misses
this process Of ruminlton, and is therefore
not in condition for perfect digestion, and
the meal is seen to pass away III considerable
quantities unaltercd -1merican i yicultuTii.
E~.Y" The Reverend james Gallaher, who
preceded the Reverend William II. Milburn
as chaplain of the House of Representatives,
commenced his ministry in Tennessee. He