New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1879-10-01

caterpillar denude fruit and other trees
of their foliage, the curculio stings the
plum and some other stone fruits, and
the codling worm perforates the apple,
greatly affecting its value.-lowa State
Register.
AN emigrant to Kansas writes to the
Cincinnati Gazette that the land IL
taken up 50 rapidly there, man can
hardly have time to write to his friends
telling them they can get q location
within some miles Of him, ere the
chance is gone.
For the last five years have not
lost q cucumber or q melon, vine or
cabbage plant. Get barrel with
few gallons of gas tar in it; pour water
on the tar; always have it ready when
needed, and when the bugs appear,
give them q liberal drink of the tar
water from q garden-sprinkler or 9th.
erwise, and. if the rain washes it of
and they return, repeat the dose. It
will also destroy the Colorado potato
beetle, and brighten the old long pota-
to-bug worse than threshing with
brush. Five years ago this summer
both kinds appeared on my late pota-
toes, and l watered with the tar water.
The next day all Colorados that had
not been we'll protected from the sprin-
kler were dead, and the Others, though
their name was legion, were all gone,
and | have never seen one of them on
the farm since. I am aware that many
will look upon this with indifference,
because it is so cheap and simple Q
remedy. Such should always feed
both their own and their neighbors', as
they frequently do.-Cor. ChicagQpQr;b-
N2e.
observations Of snow collected on
mountain-tops and within the Arctic
circle, far beyond the influence of fac
tories and smoke, confirm the SUPPOSE
ton that minute particles of iron float
in the atmosphere, and in time fall to
the earth. Some physicists believe
that these floating particles of iron are
concerned in the striking phenomena
Of the aurora. Groneman, of Gottingen,
holds that streams Of the particles re-
volve round the sun, and that when pass
ing the earth they are attracted to the
poles, and then stretch forth as long
filaments into space. But as they
travel with planetary velocity they be-
come ignited in our atmosphere. and
thus produce theluminious appearance
OF the aurora. In his recent voyages
Prof. Nordenskjold examined snow far
in the north beyond Spitzbergen, and
found therein exceedingly small parti-
cles of metallic iron, phosphorus and
cobalt Eclectic Magazine.
m. Bert, Of the Biological Society
of Paris, has obtained some curious
results from his experiments on the
temperature of the brain. When body
and mind are in state of absolute in
action, the temperatureof both sides of
the head is the same. When any
brain-work is undertaken, if the equal
ity does not continue. the left side al
ways shows the higher temperature.
Raymond says that in cases of paralysis
the temperature is higher in the pa
rietal region than over the rest of the
Uranium, and here again the left side is
hotter than the right by 0.3 to o.
deg. 9. -
BETWEEN 1857 and 1876 the value Of
imported AID cereal food consumed in
Great Britain rose from E35, 900, 900 to
S11O,OOQ, 900, about one-h half being rep
resented by wheat; in fact, it seems
that the half of every loaf eaten in En-
gland is made Of foreign wheat. One
point which has not been fully noticed
before is that to-day the use of food de-
rived from animal sources has very
much increased in England. Thirty
years ago not more than one-third Of
the English people consumed animal
food even once in the week. To-day
nearly all Of them use it at least once
every day. Now, ten years ago the
United Kingdom produced nine-tenths
of the meat and dairy produce which
was eaten, but last year three-fourtha
only were made, the other fourth com.
ing from abroad. !.
a METHOD Of producing from oak On
imitation ebony, Of great beauty, d
thus described in the Revue I,sdust,iells:
The wood IL immersed for forty-eight
hours in q hot saturated solution o1
alum, and then brushed over with {
logwood decoction. To this end, one
part Of best logwood Is boiled in ten
parts Of water, filtered through linen.
and evaporated at = gentle heat until
the volume 10 reduced one half; to every
quart Of this arc added ten to fifteen
drops Of o saturated solution, neutral,
Of indigo. After applying this dye e
the wood, the latter is rubbed With {
saturated solution, filtered, o. verdi Fis
In hot concentrated acetlo acid, III