The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1876-02-20
SCIENTIFIC NOTES.

Salt of lemon is the best material for re-
moving stains of iron mold, but it should be
used very sparingly, as any excess will de.
stroy the fabric.
The TELEGRAPHIc VALUE OF LANGUAGE
larger number and greater variety OF ideas
can be conveyed, with more exactness, in a
given number of words in the English lam
guage than in almost any other This il
strikingly shown in the matter of telegraphy.
It has been demonstrated that, for all tele-
graphic purposes, the English language is
from Is to 33 per cent cheaper than the
French. German. or any other language
Dry earth treatment for ulcers has been
found very successful. Large, sloughy ulcers.
after being washed. were covered with thick
layer of earth, over which piece of wet
paper was placed as q support, the whole be-
ing neatly bandaged. In q few days the ulcers
began to clear, and when the surfaces looked
healthy and granulating, q dressing made as
follows was used: A piece of muslin the size
of the ulcer was immersed in carbolie oil lin
the proportion of one part acid to ten parts
coaconut oily; with this the sore was covered.
and over that dry earth was placed, and then
moistened earth and a bandsge. In short
time the healing process manifested itself
satisfactorily, while all odor was entirely re-
moved.
BIcARBoNATE OF SODA TooTHAcHE REM
EDY.-Dr. Duckworth, of st. Bartholomew s
Hospital, London, has recently successfully
used bicarbonate of soda as q remedy for
ssvers toothache, when applications of chloro-
form, either externally to the cheek or to the
ear, or placed on cotton in the decaye tooth,
failed; and when carboIic acid, applied as
last mentioned, also proved imperative
PIodnotS nf Coffnr anokoA in 1f
thirty grains of bicarbonate of soda in one
fluid ounce of water gave almost instant re-
lief. Dr.. Duckworth considers that very fire..
quently the pain is due to the contact OF acid
saliva with the decayed tooth; and, therefore,
it is important in cases of odontalgia, first to
determine whether the saliva has an acid re-
action. If this be the case, then q simple
alkaline application. as above stated, is the
most eficaciops means of cure.
Gases of toothache are such common accom-
paniments to disordered stomach that there
seems every reason fer the truth of the above
authors conjecture. Doubtless, on the same
ground is due the efficacy of ammonia, SO
frequently recommended. but which, if ap-
pain by burning the gum than already exists
in the tooth.
Bicarbonate of soda is found in every
kitchen, and hence no more handy remedy
could be devised, while it is destitute of any
painful effects; and the rationale of its opera
ton and its sim plicity makes Us wonder why
it has not been thought of before.
The CUCUMBER IN RUssIA.-What the onion
is to the Spaniard, or the potato TO the Irish
man, that the cucumber is to the native Rus
sian. 1t is the indispensable part of every
Russian peasants every neal In the
account Of his trip up the Volga to
the great fair of Mini Novgorod- which,
by the wav, packs the greatest amount
OF instructive and entertaining description
in the smallest space of any book OF travels
printed the past season--Mr. Munro Butler
Johnstons remarks the profusion of water.
melons and cucumbers everywhere offered for
sale. At the fair and on the road thither.
pyramids of melons, like cannon balls in an
arsenal, were heapsd up in every direction:
and as for cucumbers, one couldn't help think
ing that plague of cucumbers, like iocusts,
had descended upon the earth. All along the
Volga. from Astrakhau to Mini, the whole
population seemed engaged in eating water
melons, which were sold for three copecks.
equivalent to one English penny, two cents.
At every station the trade in melons was
rivaled only by the traffic in sunaowers.
But if the water melon and the suptlower are
Injuries and pastimes, the cucum Der is law
and necessity. One never sees q Russian
peasant at dinner without q lump of black
bread and cucumber. "A mouiick's dinner
may be SAID to consist of e plus cucumber"
Inc VIII consist of his favorite cabbage
soup, with or without meat in it, and some-
times, in addition to it, the famous grit Dor.
ndge; sometimes the soup is without the DOR
ridge, sometimes the porridge without the
soup, but in either case the cucumber II Al
ways there; and should equal zero, then the
evar faithful cucumber does duty for all the
rest.