Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-06-27

A huge mammoth has been dis
covered in Siberia at depth of TWEEN
~ two feet beneath the surface. Its
hide and flesh at first had pinky hue.
but IN few days it turned to solid.
white, argillaceous mass.
Preserved pease are, far more COM
monty than people think, colored with
salts OF copper, to counterfeit the fresh,
natural tint. If they are put up with
out being artiticially colored, they have
a yellowish hue, and this suggests an
easy test OF their purity by simple in
spectlon. Pasteur has found that out
OF fourteen cases of pease which he an
alyzed ten had been treated with cop
per, to such an amount in some in
stances that this poisonous adulterant
was equal TO one ten-thousandth OF the
entire mass minus the water.--Chicago
Times.
MIR. Mellard Reade has been esti-
mating the quantity of the soluble
constituents of the soil held invisibly
III solution in the waters of rivers and
borne out into the ocean. He believes
that, over the whole earth, 100 tons of
such matter are removed annually
from every square mile, and at this
rate It would take 10000. 0C0 years to
accumulate the quantity of sulphates
OF lime and magnesia in the ocean.
but the carbonates could be replaced in
$50, 900 years. If the chlorides of the
ocean all came from the rivers, which
contain so little, their renewal would
take 200, 100000 years. These calcu-
lations are interesting rs indicating the
length of geological time.
AS yet, the center of disturbance
which produced the wave in inc Pa
citic that destroyed Iquique, on the
10th of May, is not ascertained. The
direction from which it came may per-
haps be determined by calculations
from its time of reaching different
places on the Peruvian, Californian
and Sandwich Island coasts; and from
the height to which it rose at different
localities, especially on different sides
OF the Hawaiian group, where the va
ration of height was from four to
thirty-siX feet. Prof. Dawson, of San
Francisco, keeps record of the height
of the sea 1T that port, by instrument
tai means, and he finds that the dis
turbance lasted for three and half
days after it began, on the 10th Ilt.,
and that there was, in particular, Il
second shock ten to twelve hoars after
the first. About two or three a. IN.
on the It'll a shock of earthquake was
felt in Perthshire, Scotland.
In Russia the common cockioach
(Blatta 0rientaliS) is a favorite popular
remedy for dropsy. DR.. r. Bogomo-
low, of st. Petersburg, has lately ex.
amined its effects in nine cases of
Bright's disease, heart disease, and
other affections accompanied with
severe dropsy, and in all the result was
the same. There was an increase in
the secretion OF the urine and perspira-
ton, with rapid disappearance of
ndema, ana also almost complete dis
appearance from the urine of albumen
and renal derivatives. The dose was
five to ten grains of the powered cock
reaches in the twenty-four hours, but
they were also administered as IL tinct-
ure and as an infusion. These insects
do not, like canthardes, says the
Boston Journal Of Chemistry, produce
any irritant action on the kidneys.
DR.. Bogomolow has succeeded in ex-
tracing from them crystalline body
which he calls antihydropin, and which
is their active principle. Scientific
american.
The production of glass signs has
recently been 50 much improved as to
almost rank among the fine arts. The
method heretofore pursued has been
that Of roughly painting the letters on
one side of the glass; then, on the OPP
pOsite side, carefully painting these
letters in gold size the gold leaf being
laid on this, the superiluous gliding
being removed on the whole becoming
dry, wnen the letters are finally shaded
by hand In the new process, the
artist begins by covering the glass
where it is to be lettered with gold or
silver leaf, having previously applied a
coating of isinglass size; then a yell
low, hard drying-ink is applied to the
gilded surface with elastic type, In
such places as to retain the leaf. On
this ink becoming thoroughly hard and
dry, the surplus leaf is removed with
whiting, by the use of damp pledget
of cotton, while the lettering or orna-
mentation is retained by the ink. The
shading, or its outline, IS now printed
on the glass with elastic type IN any
required color, and, when dry, hand
work may be added, when desired,
and the whole backed up III the usual
way.-N. Y. sun.