Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-08-28
POPULAR SCIENCE.

One bushel of real Graham -four is said
TO have more nutriment in it than barrel
of superfne flour and fifty pounds OF beef
steak.
Mr.. Gladstone, in addressing the pupils
of nonconformist school at Finchley,
England, advocated more important
place in our systems Of education for nat
ural history.
A lantern for use in milestone dressing
has been patented. 1t throws a clear
light upon the land or furrow Of the stone,
and is contrived so that the draught pro-
duced by it carries off the fine dust arising
from the stone.
Professor Stokes, of the university OF
Cambridge, England, has been elected a
corresponding member Of the Paris Acad-
emy Of Sciences. The German emperor
has also conferred upon mm the decoration
of the order "Pour lie Mente."
Musty flour can be restored and improv-
ed by taking three parts carbonate OF mag
nesia and 760 parts flour; mix and use
the flour in the usual way. This will not
only greatly improve bad flour, but the
bread will be much lighter, more whole
some and will keep longer than when alum
is used.
On the I'd of June the Paris Academy of
Sciences elected Professor Huxley to be,
corresponding member of the academy for
the section OF anatomy and zuology. Pro-
fessor Huxley received Al votes out OF a
total of 40; Agassiz received 5 votes, Bis
choff !, and there were two blank ballots.
Some chestnut timber that had been
stored over horse stable was found to
have acquired rich color from the am
monia present in the stable. This led to
the use of ammonia water (hartshornl for
staining chestnut. The wood Is rubbed
with this two or three times and when
A moth.proof paper is made from a mix
turc of woOlen, cotton and hempen waste;
it is then saturated with a mixture OF
crude carbolic acid, heated thin coal tar,
and the residual oil from the rectitication
of naphtha. The paper is then pressed
and dried, and serves to wrap up articles
liable to be damaged by moths.
The utilization of bamboo for paper
making is advocated by a writer in the
Journal Of the Society Of Arts, who pro-
nounces it far superior for that purpose to
esparto grass. Then, too, it can be pro-
duced at less cost than esparto. BY utiliz-
ing the bamboo spontaneously produced in
India, or, better still, by cultivating the
plant there, an unfailing supply OF the
fibre might be produced.
Mr.. w. Mattieu Williams, who for more
than thirty years has closely studied the
subject of the electric light and noted every
new development, does not hesitate to at-
firm that, although as scientific achieve
ment the electric light is a splendid sue
cess, its practical application to all pur-
poses where cost Is a matter of serious con-
is a complete and hopeless fail
ure, and must Of necessity continue 10 be
SOt"
DR.. Winnecke, of Strasburg, has discov-
cred record of observations made in 1880,
Or at least thirty years before the inven-
ton of the telescope, In which the places
of eleven stars of the Pleiades are given.
On comparing these with modern obser-
vations it appears that the places were de-
termlned with probable error of only two
hence there can be little doubt
that all these stars were seen by the naked
eye.
In France all pharmacies are subject to
inspection with regard to their general
and more particularly to
their practice in dispensing poisonous sub.
stances, and to the purity Of the drugs and
medicines kept on sale. But even in that
country are found inscriptions pharma-
cists who palm off upon the public adulter-
a. I..1 -
practice that careful physicians are wont
to advise their patients to have their pre-.
made up only by pharmacists OF
integrity.
Large numbers of trichinR spiralis have
been detected in cured meats imported into
Alsace from America. In Switzerland, too,
the discovery hus been made that Ameri-
can hams are full of trichina, and a gov
eminent commission has been appointed to
decide upon the precautionary measures
10 be taken. The cantonal authorities are
recommended to warn the people against
the use of American hams, especially in
he half raw state, and to arm the police
with discretionary powers over the sale OF
.he article,
A new method Of excavating for the
ERECTION of telegraph poles has been de-
,ised and put to the test at Titusvillc,
A man drives a crowbar
nto the ground to the depth offour or
i've feet and into the hole so made drops
four.ounce cartridge of so.called electric
powder" The fuse having been lighted,
he man proceeds to the site Of the next
,ole. In the meantime dull sound is
leard, and hole about the diameter of Il
lour barrel, and four or five feet deep, has
,een made by the exploding cartrige.