The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-02-19

ing to the Journal of Chemistry. a cir
die OF compressed cakes of gun cotton
tied around the trunk and ignited will
instantly cut down the largest tree as
clearly as the keenest knife.
FmEs1DE PoIsoN.-I,ate tests of the
effect of coal-gas upon vegetation in the
Botanical garden of Berlin prove that
the hardest trees wilt rapidly and die
from contact of their roots with the car
bonic poison. Another proof that win
ter homes in which coal is the source of
artificial heat should be well ventilated
for the health of their occupants.
THE HEAnTH- GAUGE. In announcing
daily the quantity of ozone exciting in
the air, the weather bureau really gives
the sanitary tone of the atmosphere.
Ozone, discovered In 1913 by Schori-
beird, as a new chemical principle, is a
varied form of oxygen, and the most
powerful disinfectant known and the
atmosphere is pure or impure, whole
some or sickly, according to the amount
present in it.
FooD FOR THoUGHT.-Of all fruits
and vegetables, the democratic apple is
found upon careful analysis to contain
the most phosphorus for the brain and
eliminative acid for torpid livers. It's
effect upon the thinking faculties is
Organioally nutrifying and stimulative,
and its juice acts as a chemical equiva-
lent for the muscular exercise that
should work effete matter out of the
system. I .tt
AGAssIz MEsArERIzED.-In his youn-
ger days the late Prof. Agassiz met the
renowned mesmerist, Rev. Chauncey
Hare Townshend, at Neufchatel, in
Switzerland, and was as curious to be
magnetized as sceptical about the pos
sibility. A few hourishes and passes
OF tho mesmeric hands deprived the
future great naturalist of volition and
speech, the while his mind was influ-
enced by the operators to every con-
ceivable fantasy, illusion, and delight.
He then believed in the power. but
never felt satisfied about its definition.
MIND AND MuTToN. of the re-
cent admirable newspaper essays of
Prof William Mathews, of the univer-
sity OF Chicago, was upon the morality
and intellectually of good living. Quot
ing from DR. johnson, that ga man
who has no regard for his stomach will
have no regard for anything else,'' the
professor contends that bad digestion
means decentralization of social charac-
ter no lees than impairment of intellec.
tual force. "Plain living and high
thinking" go together, whether in the
practical mOralist or the poet.
SOLAR UPRoAR.-Said Prof. Richard
A. Proctor, the celebrated English as
tronomer, in one of his recent Ameri-
can lectures +" The sun seems to MS 10
be perfectly still. When we consider
what we have learned about him we
know that all the forms of uproar on
the earth are as absolute quiet. Even
the hideOus grooming of the earthquake
is surpassed a million-fold by the dis
turbances Of every square mile of that
lntiamed sea. This is no idle dream.
This great central machine of the solar
sun, the central heart, pulsates with life
and will continue TO do SO until the fIIel
is exhausted" I-7 20
SPUiHoUs HYDRoPHoB1A.-The ten.
dency of all modern scientific investi.
CATION goes TO show that cases of GEM.
Inc hydrophobia in human beings are as
rare as the visitations of visible comets
by sheer nervous frenzy, people who
have been bitten by cross or distem
pered brutes brig upon themselye,
sometimes a kind of hysterical resem
blanee OF the disease, occasionally end
ing fatally; or the result 8 tetanus, OF
lockJaw, which might as readily have
followed from a common cut or scratch
In all the ages of medical history there
have not been a score of authoritatiyely
attested instances of genuine humar
hydrophobis.