Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-03-28
MECHANICAL AND SCIENTIFIC.

Twenty minutes in the smoke of
wood or woolen-cloth will take the
pain out of the worst case OF infam-
nation arising from any wound. No
one need die from lock-jaw if this
simple remedy is resorted to. -Chicagp
Times.
The Springfield Republican says:
Those ater-motor fellows are trying
their hand at running sewing-ma-
chimes. A motor with "a six-inch
wheel, propelled by stream of water
the size OF large needle, has been
tested on machine at Superintendent
ilWcock's house with very satisfacto-
ry results. The machine was driven
with great rapidity, and, as the ex-
pense OF running IS only two or
three cents an hour, the motor bids fair
to be immensely popular with women.
DR.. J. {. Bucknill, IN eminent
London physician, who has made the
study of the brain specially, re-
marks that " No one brain is like any
other brain. Either through the force
of Inheritance from the parent organ
ism, or through the influence of edu-
cation or other modifying circum-
stances, every mind possesses such a
popularity of individuality in the rel
alive susceptibility and strength of
its organs, that the same disturbing
influence never produces in two brains
exactly the same pathological effects"
Mature prints the following letter,
dated Magdalen College, oxford, which
tends to increase our estimate of the
mental capacity of the feathered tribes:
have often" says the writer,
noticed that crows crowded on Sun
days TO a certain place, where, on the
seventh day, friend of mine was in
the habit of amusing himself by pac-
ing quantity of broken biscuit on his
windoW-siil. He had time for this
only on the Sunday morning, and dur
ing the week no food was SO presented.
We noticed that on the SUNDAYS a
crowd OF birds came about the win
dow, whereas on other days no special
sign Of excitement was visible among
them.
The project for railroad across
the Great African desert, which has
been much discussed by French scien-
title authorities, has received a new
impulse at the hands of the celebrated
traveller {. Rohlfs. The French no
ton was to draw the commerce of the
Soudan through Algeria. DR.. Rohlfs
advocates in Performances Uittheil,tng-
en- route between Tripoll on the Med
iterranean and kuka on Lake Chad.
The line will cross 200 miles of des-
ert, but DR.. RohlfS thinks that it will
find sufficient water supply. One thing
is tolerably certain about such a rail
road; 1t Will not create an element in
its prosperity such as all American
railways hope for. by building up
business from its way-sidc stations.
Prof. Saforik, of Prague, has en-
deavOred to explain the intense bright
ness OF Venus, and particularly the
dazzling splendOr of her bright limb.
without assuming Specular reflection
on the surface of the planet. He states
that the intensity of the phosphores-
cence of the sea in tropical waters is
not fully appreciated by the near oh.
server, who therefore has only faint
idea of the brilliancy which this phe-
nomenon can acquire under highly-fa-
VOrable circumstances and he thinks
1t not unreasonable to suppose that
such a phosphorescence can be seen
even at the distance of Venus. II so,
it explains the fact that the edge of
the dark limb of Venus is seen bright
CT than its central part; for it is dem
by calculation, and confirmed
by observations, that rough surface
rejecting diffused height appears the
brighter the more obliquely it is re-
garded.
49, Hot water, in the treatment of |
bruises and wounds, is strongly advo- |
Gated 10y certain medical authorities. |
In proof OF its efficacy, the New York /
Ie3ical Journal cites the following /.
case: The hand of a workman in "a /.
maChne-shop was crushed under the |.
tajl of trip-hammer weighing 700 |
pounds The hammer was arrested /
when within a Lali-inCh of its he'd, /
but the palm of the unfortunate hand /
receiving the blow was reduced 10 a /
pulp. The metacarpal bones were eX- /
lenSlyely commInuted. yet, in the hope F..
of saving the member, 1t was kept /
in hot water for two or F.
three weeks, and then taken out and /
dressed. In three months the patient .
was dismissed from the hospital, and F.
in nine months was able to move his /
fingers and demonstrate that he still /.
possessed a useful hand The temper /
ltuge of the water employed in such F.
eases should be about l03 degrees F..
Fahrenheit.