The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1879-12-05

between points In Nebraska and Penn
,ylvsnia, two thousand miles apart.
BY the new system of telegraphy
which the American Rapid Telegraph |
Co. is putting I'M operation, it is claimed
that fifteen hundred words a minute |
can be transmitted. The method con-
sists in passing strip of paper, pune
tured with telegraphic characters,
through an electric current, the paper
opening and closing the circuit accord
ing 10 the perforations. The message
is received in dots and dashes by the
discolorstion of a strip of chemically
prepared paper passing under pencil
In the circuit at the receiving end of the
wire. The perforators are in the pos
session of business men, who prepare
their own messages.
The following method of testing milk
is given by German authority. About
an ounce of pulverized gypsum is mix
ed with sufficient milk to give the mass
the consistency Of paste. The quality
of the milk can be determined by care
fully noting the time this paste requires
TO CONCEAL. If the milk's specific gray
ity at sixty degrees Fahrenheit is ,O3O,
the mixture will CONCEAL in ten hours !;
with twenty-five per cent. of water,
two hours only will be required; with
fifty per cent. of water, one and one
half hours; and with seventy.fve per
cent. of water, forty minutes.
The ravages of the phylloxera in
French vineyards had, at the close OF
1873, extended over more than $780,
600 acres, the vines on more than zoe, 900
acres being totally destroyed. The in
sect is now reported in the Medoc, the
most famous viticulLural district of
France. The Medoc vineyards are con.
tanned in . narrow strip of land about
twenty miles long, yet their value is
said to amount to many millions ster-
ling. The phylloxera has also appeared
in Australia, where government pur-
chase and prompt destruction of the in.
tested vineyards is earnestly recon.
mended.
Near Rothenburg, Germany, DR.. Mos
esta, an eminent geologist, has discov.
cred an oak forest at depth of eigh.
feet beneath the surface of the earth
The number of we'll preserved trees is
enormous. The wood is as black al
Irish bog oak, in consequence of ex-
posure to the water for ages. 1t is hard
and sound, however, and forms an ex.
cellent material for Woodworking and
mosaic. The size ofsome of the trunks
is surprising. One of them, fifty-seven
feet In length and five feet in diameter
has been preserved for exhibition at the
Royal Museum, Berlin. The forest ap.
pears to belong to very remote period
The discovery Of the long sought
remedy for consumption is claimed by
DR.. M. NJ. Griffith, of Bradford, Pa.
His treatment is the administration OF
crude petroleum.. He states that out OF
twenty-five cases of we'll marked tuber-
culosis twenty are cured, aud the others
materially benefited. The treatment
has in no case been continued more
than five months. at is to be hoped"
says the Scientific American, "thst DIR.
Griffith has not mistaken some self-lim.
iting phase of throat or bronchial dis
order for true consumption of the lungs
also, that continued trial of the alleged
remedy will justify the high opinion he
hss formed in regard to its efficacy.
A Paris company employing a large
number OF horses has made . scientific
investigation of the nutritive value OF
oats. The conclusions reached are that
neither recently harvested oats nor
those gathered in damp condition
form suitable food for horses. 1t was
also found that light oats are considera-
bly, less valuable for feeding purposes
than the heavy.
A late medical writer considers the
proper position to assume during sleep
to be that OF lying face downward, as
In that position only can all the organs
of the body freely perform their proper
functions.
The deep-sea dredging conducted by
the American Fish Commission between
Saybrook and the Bay of Fundy, has
brought to light more than fifty varie-
ties of fish previously unknown, at
least in American waters. Many kinds
of these newly discovered fish are quite
palatable. The dredging expedition,
in charge of Prof. Verrill of Yale, has
carefully studied the habits and histories
of the different fish and animals found,
and has sought to learn the localities
where each species most abounds, their
food, time and circumstances of breed
ing, and particulars concerning their
migration. Fishes have been opened,
and the contents of their stomechs ex-
amined, to see what they eat. This is
very important part of the investiga-
ton, and the most that is known in this
direction has been learned through the
researches of the Commission. This
point known, the reason or absence of
particular fish in any locality could be
readily determined. 4 In places where
herring have been found in large guam
titles one season, none could be discov-
cred the next, on account of the disap-
pearance of their favorite food. Their
diet is shrimps.t THEREAFTER exist on
almost invisible crustacea, and these
again on microscopic creations. The
microscopic life would bring the crus-
tacea, to be followed by the shrimps,
the behring's, and the whales and sharks,
in the order named. Thus is seen the
important part the most minute things
may play in the economy of nature. A
knowledge Of these facts will teach the
fisherman not to destroy the food sup
ply of his prospective prey. IL
A German engineer has discovered
on the site of ancient Pergamos (now
Bergama), in Asiatic Turkey, over two
statues and pieces of sculpture
belonging to the best period of Greek
art. These works are mainly from a
temple to Athena ON the site of the
Acropolis. They include the altar, a
colossal LAGOON, figures of Eros oil
many Roman ladies, of satyrs and tri- |
tons. together with a highly ornamen-
tai frieze and base of q pedestal sup
porting statue Of Zeus, and adorned |
with representations of the deities of
the elements.
Iron HARRY HILL, THE CHAMPION
No. ~ EAST HoUsroN Sr.,
Y. VI know of no remedy that will
10 quickly remove the discolorations OF
he skin rasulfinU from ininriaa so.o