The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-06-05

deluslOn which has existed % years, and |
attracted in the United States alone,
nearly three millions of people. The |
last census informs MS that there are in
the republic "a, 600 insane, setting aside
idiots; and it is believed that out of this
number 1900 cases may be traced di-
rectly to spiritualism. The delusion
does not appear to be decreasing,
though fortunately its victims are now
almost altogether from the Vulgar and
illiterate classes, and scientific men do
not seem to be liable to the contagion.
Medical RcUielU.
TRANSMISSION OF BLOoD.-The Chica-
go medical professors have been exper-
imenting with the TRANSMISSION of blood,
for the benefit of their students. On
account of the danger, in the old mode
of direct TRANSMISSION, of carrying air IN
clotted blood into the vein, which is IA
tai, the instrument of Mr.. Mcdonald
was used, by which the blood is def
brated by beating with a stick before it
is put into the tube for injection into
the vein, the red corpuscles containing
the life only remaining. The blood
having been transferred to the tube,
the tube is then held upright and in
serted into the vein of the recipient.
The blood flows in naturally, and no
air or clOt Is admitted. The expert
menis were made with a large dog, who
was brought into the hall and chloro-
formed for use. The first was to show
the pressure of blood in the arteries.
An artery was opened and tube in
serted. The blood mounted in the tube
to the height of over six feet, and rose
and fell with the pulsatiOns. The ami
NAL was then subjected to a drain of
blood until respiration ceased, and he
was apparently a dead dog. A prick of n
needle between the toes, where a dogs
keenest sansibilities are, failed to pro-
duce any responsive movement. In the
meantime the blood had been prepared,
and the instrument was adjusted to
prove the process. When tho dog had
received back four ounces of his blood
he kicked. Twenty ounces made him
quite lively and wagged his tail. When
he got up, in about five mi rutes after
he began to get back his life-current,
and began to eat meat with a ravenOus
appetite, he was cheered as a success.
SCIENTIFIC MEN SCIENTIFICALLY STUD
IED.-Francis Gallon, well known for
his researches in regard to hereditary
mental powers, has been pursuing these
studies. He made personal inquiries of
$50 leading scientific men of the day,
and on their replies based his cOnclu-
siOns. Most important was the almost
persistent combination of remarkable
energy of body with remarkable ener-
gy OF mind. Size of head was consid-
cred, and, as a general rule, was larger
than of ordinary gentlemen. Still, re-
Isl L,
small heads, and the small heads were
remarkable for activity. Health was
a marked feature Independence of
spirit and tenacity of purpose were al
so most marked characteristics of men
of science, and notably a large proper
ton were men of business, as principals
of large commercial or mercantile con-
Germs. The great incentive to science
seemed, to the author, to be innate taste,
and in character he regarded the scien-
titic mind as anti-feminine. As to he
reditaries, that of health seemed most
essentially due to parentage ; and on
the parental side the influences of quail
tiles was apparently on the fathers side,
in the proportion of l2S to 40 on the
mothers side. 4 combination of all es-
sential qualities seemed necessary to
the production of man of mark, aud
that the laws of chances and alterna-
tivos came in to give actuality to re-
suits. In regard to education, the gen.
eral condition seemed to be that they
were not tied down in their studies to
particular subjects, but were given to
the investigation of many.
EDUcATIoN.-Th science of educa-
ton, to-day, is where the science of
geology was fifty years ago. We are
Just beginning to think of itas n science.
Men and women are waking up to its
demands. Children, with their ingnite
variety of organizations, Compartments
and idiosyncrasies, can no more be edu-
Gated at random than plants, gathered
from the four quarter of the earth, can
be perfected through the same culture,
and in the same climate and soil. Each
child in the great crowd that gathers in
our schools is in some respects like a
particular musical instrument, designed
by God in its complicated mechanism
TO perform its particular part, to yield
its own particular tone in the diapason
of life; and l shudder when 1 think
how rudely it is often played upon by
untauRht teachers-teachers who have
drifted TO their work, or resorted to it
but who have never thought of study
ing its principles as physicians, lawyers,
artists study the principles of their pro-
fessions. Played upon by the unskill-
full hands of those who have never
troubled themselves to study the physi-
cal, much less the psychic, delicacy of
this wonderful human instrument, the
only wonder Is that society should yield
the harmonies it does. No! women
need to think more, not less to in
crease, not diminish, brain-work to
over-live the drudgery of it, whether it
1t involve teaching, writing, study, the
work of profession, or homework, by
breathing into it the living spirit of
love, which scanctifies and ennobles
whatever the hands or the brain find to
do. H. Stone.
MISCELLANEOUS achievement of
telegraphic science in China, lately, is
method by which messages may be
sent not only III the Chinese language
but printed in its intricate characters.
Proctor has small faith that
the million dollar telescope which the
wealthy Californian, Mr.. Lick, pro-
poses to have built can be made power
ful enough to bring the moon within
lulTlN iulltS vi us a. 1OIltAi u1Btu ny
the enthusiastic projectors.-A burner
is in use, in Canada, by which crude
petroleum is used instead Of coal or
wo in brick kilns. BY a simple con-
trivancs the nozzle of the burner is
made 10 throw the flame directly down
ward at the first firing and, after burn
ing the head (as it is termed), this noz
gle Is replaced by a straight one, the
change being effected il few moments.
Tie flame is thereby thrown into the
arch any required distance, burning the
whole kiln from one end, and doing it
in much less time than by the old
method, and with perfect success as re-
cards the equality of the burning. To
light dark room looking out on mar
row ward or street, let the glass be
roughly ground on the outside, and set
flush with the outer wall. The light
from the whole of the visible sky, and
from tile remotest parts of the opposite
wall, will be introduced into the apart