The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-06-18


In Paris, year by year, there is a uni.
form increase in the prevalence Of dipth.
eria, due, it is alleged,in a great measure
to a neglect OF isolated cases Of this dis.
ease.
On the railroad connecting Reveil and
Mary.le-Roi, France, it is said that the
experiment Of running the locomotives
by means Of superheated water has given
very satisfactory results. The water was
introduced at a temperature oil one hun.
dred aud eighty degrees centigrade.
Upto this time DR.. Richardson and
others have failed to make the micro.
phone available for ~diagnostic purposes,
10 auscultation Of the lungs and heart to
the extent anticipated. The stethescope
vet serves the purpose fully as we'll. But
Il is thought that the obstacles 70 the ex'
pected use Of the m%icrophone in detecting
irregularities in the working OF the ami.
mai mechanism will soon be removed.
Speaking OF the uses OF pain, The Ian.
&c. observes that generally it may be set
down as an axiom that the chief aud
most obvious service Of pain to human.
i,y is as a deterrent and warning sensa.
ton 10 ward of danger. Pain, however,
has q secondary and educational value as
regards the mind and temper, and some
sorts Of pain may be specially designed
for this purpose. In this view, also, pain
has apractical interest, because the deyel.
opment Of mind is a process governed by
natural laws OF which scienceis perfectly
competent to take heed.
NJ. Rsznier has communicated to the
French Academy Of Sciences a descrip.
ton Of a new electric lamp with incan.
desceuce acting in free air. A thin rod
Of carbon pressed ls.erally by an elastic
contact and pushed in the direc-
ton Of its axis against = fixed contact
becomes incandescent, and burns when
trayersed by 4 pretty strong current. As
the end Of the rod Is consumed the pres
sure urges /, forward through the elastic
sides 10 the point OF fixed contact, where
the combustion takes place.
The nitrate Of lead is nov recommen-
ded in the medical journals as scarcely
second 10 any other substance, in point OF
cheapness and efficacy as a deodoriler.
To prepare Il for use ii Is simply neces-
sary to take, for ordinary purposes, half
a drachm Of the nitrate, dissolve 1t In a
pint or more Of boiling water, dissolve
about two drachms OF common salt In 4
pail Of water, pour the two solutions to-
pether, and allow the sediment to settle.
10 purity and sweeten a fetid atmosphere
Immediately, dip a cloth in the liquid
and hang II up in the apartment.
Arrangements have been made for test.
ing the utmost powers Of carrier pigeons,
by q flight OF seven hundred and sixty
miles, from Rome to Brussels, on June
%. There are more than six hundred
bird, entered for the race, but It 10 not
expected that over half a dozen will sue
coed | n making the journey, as on the last
test race for great distances, only about !
per cent OF the birds arrived at their des.
tination. The line Of the projected race
crosses Mount ST. Gothard, and 1t Is sup
posed that the successful birds will take
The direct course, which must take them
over that peak,at ten thousand feet above
sea-leyel.
The electric light continues to grow in
favor. Arrangements are making to IL
Illuminate the British house OF lords by 1t.
An English scientist has been lecturing
before the society Of arts on the subject
and demonstrates that the electric costs
from a half To- twelfth as much as the
ras light. He does not consider the two
10 direct competition yet, but regards the
electric light as peculiarly fitted to do
Just what gas Is incapable Of. AZ the
Paris exposition great attention iaheins
paid TO illumination, and the eNetric
light IL being experimental upon and tes'
ted in various ways.
Mr.. F. Psppard issths inventor OF a
curious continuance for awakening a
sleeper al a given hour. The apparatus
Is 10 DO fixed TO an ordinary clock; II Is SO
arranged that when the hour hand o. the
clock touches a button,an electric circuit
10 completed; the minute hand passes
over the button without effect. There
are q series Of holes for the different
hours, into any one Of which the button