New-York tribune., 1874-11-23

uru,ion It seems, according to The London Ld"ee''
that some months no was called TO see young Bf'
who was suffering from severe nervous symphonic anu
who was evidently dying. N xt day. on making post
mortem examination fount that the rubber pana OF
hair net, which had been worn day and night for q
month was deeply mbeddcd in the pericrania tissues
and had IN part cut through the wais OF te sh,
and was pressing the dura matter wnleh was III
state OF acute inflammation The poor Vicn,
had n cruel stcpmother, who greatly objected 10 be
loose and dshevelcd locks 0f her daughter ahu ssu,
therefore, on the child wearing net 10 Keep Tic h'
place.
SANITARY ARCIITECTURE.-Sir VIM. Ihomp-
son. IN his address the Society OF Telegraph EnR
neers London, expresses it as his opinion that "hen
architects to regard themselves as engineers ana
when the public come to expect them To act as ehgr
neer there will assuredly be less typhoid FEVER; inVa
lids III 20 walk ride. or drive out OF doors' OF 10
be benefited by the beauty of foreign scenery VIII not
be expariated merely avoid the evil effects OF indoor
atmosphere; people in good health will not be stupcned
by few hours evening at home in gasght, or OF
social reunion, by one hour OF crowded popular rec
ture or meeting; and in all hotels dwellings ana otner
buildings there will but refreshing aerial inn
The problem OF thus lnsuring wlthln aoors any
prescribed degree Of temperature, with ar rs au
pure a. the outside of the supply Sir William
allows, Is not easy one, bat bcfevcs that VII, y,
tainy be solved when architecture pecomes VI
scientific engineering
PEAT CHARCOAL AS "A DEODoRIZER.-ln some
parts OF England and Scotland peat s now extensively
used for mixing with the excreta Of households on ac
OF value deodorlzer not OF course IN i's
natural state but In the form OF the charcoal oDtaneu
from it, Peat charcoal is OF the most porous OF all
forms OF impure carbon and its powers OF absorption
when dry are very great Thus in some experiments
tried in the town OF bennington. England. recently, II
was fouud that two or three Of newlymade peat
charcoal were sufficient to deodOrize six gallons OF
ordinary sewage The actual proportions employed, ac
cording the report. were about one part or cnaco
to 150 OF sewage by weight: and IN f9w mimi es aer
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a peculiar sweet smell was hoceo, out III s"e M .n"u h
quarter OF an all smell had disappeared anu INC
constant addition OF feca matter did not permanently
re store the OdOr. closet arranged Ior tne puPose
devoted to the use OF some lory oolei' as anx
dunng the hottest weather. on no OCCASION was an1
offensive efuvia noticeable. although tbe amount VI
peat charcoal daily made use or did not eqhai the po
portion already stated
RESPIRATION IN MINEs.-lt has been ascer-
tanned as all important fact in relation to the now much
discussed question to how properly TO venate coal
mines, that, when the workings of mine are begun,
no particular phenomena facilitate the renewal OF air.
the respiration of the and the combustion OF their
lamps are not slow to modify it seusiby that In fact
workman respires average 2l0 gallons OF air per
hour from which absorbs in part oxygen and suDst
tutes for oxygen in that space OF time G gallons OF car
Donc ecid; his lamp operating with the same INTENSITY
as his respiration produces much carbonic acd ana
augmens besides the proportion OF unconnected axoe
This carbOnlc acld or choke-1amp winch Is tbus tne
most immediate and most general lrOduct OF tne "or
uCs in the mne recognized by It's welght-hat Is, IL
alWays occupies the lowest parts or the excaValonsi
and its nterxture with the air maniiests Itself by The
difficulty of combustion in the lamps whose niInc
dminlshes in briIiancy in proportion as lhe aclu III
creases, and is extinguished when the mixture atas
10 oue-enth AS is well known carbonlc acid inanests
itself upon miners by an oppression whlch oVeIWcis
them, though OF course, habits and temperament greatly
vary The proportion of the mixture which some men are
able to breathe Axoe. nitrogen is much less TO
he dreaded than carDonlc acd.