The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-02-13

THE WOODLANDS FIREwoRK.
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.
F1REs1DE Po1soN.-Ilate 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 we'll ventilated
for the health of their occupants.
THE HEALTH GAUeE.-In announcing
daily the quantity of ozone existing in
the air, the weather bureau really gives
the sanitary tone of the atmosphere.
Ozone, discovered In 184S 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. all fruits
and vegetables, the democratic apple is
found upon careful analysis to contain
eliminative acid for torpid livers. Its
effect upon the thinking faculties is
organically 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.
AGAssIZ MEsAIERIZED.-In his your
ger days the late Prof. Agassiz met the
a.
Hare Townshend, at NeufchaeeT. in
Switzerland, and was as curious to be
magnetized as sceptical about the pos
sibility. A few hourishes and passes
of the mesmeric hands deprived the
future great naturalist of volition and
speech, the while his mind was infiu
enced by the operators to every con
ceivable fantasy, illusion, and delight
He then believed in. the power, bu
never felt satisfied about its definition
MIND AND MUTToN.-One of the re
cent admirable newspaper essays o
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 MAJ
who has no regard for his stomach viii
have no regard for anything else," tn,
professor contends that bad digestion
means Generalization of social charac
ter no less than impairment of intellec
tual force. Plain living and higl
thinking" go together, whether in tn,
practical moralisb 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 us t.
be perfectly still. When we conside
what we have leaned about him w
know that all the forms of uproar OF
the earth are as absolute quiet. Eyel
the hideous grooming of the earthquake
is surpassed million-fold by the dis
turbances of every square mile of tia
1ntiamed sea. This is no idle dream
This great central machine of the sola
sun, the central heart, pulsates with lift
and will continue to do so until the fue
IS exhausted"
SPURIOUS HYDRoPHoBIA.-The Ten
dency of all modern scientific investi
cation goes to show that cases of genu
Inc hydrophobia in human beings are a
rare as the visitations of visible comets
By sheer nervous frenzy, people VIII
have been bitten by cross or distem
pered brutes bring upon themselve
sometimes a kind of hysterical resem
b.ance of the disease, occasionally end
ing fatally; or the result s tetanus, O.
locklaw, which might as readily hav
followed from a common cut or scratch
10 all the ages of medical history Their
have not been a score of authoritative,
attested instances of genuine human
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