The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1880-11-10
QUEEN sABE.

QUlEM 5A1L.
The new incumben5 Of the chair of Latin
at Yale college, Professor Tracy Peck, wants
the Roman system OF ~pronouncing Latin
adopted there, and it will probably be done,
beginning with the next class.
Bands Of music are forbidden to play on
most bridges Of the world. A constant sue
ce3sion of sound waves, especially such as
come from the playing OF g band will excite
the wires 20 vibration. At first, the vibra-
tions ara very slight, hut they will increase as
the sound waves continue to come.
A case OF poisoning by pressed corned
beef IS reported from Colorado Springs, Mr..
and Mrs. w. Ell. Knight and Mrs. Mary
Freeman and son being the victims. They
were ezcursionists from Denver, snd had the
corned beef il their comnlissery supplies.
At last accounts they Were recovering.
The Harvard students, having decided to
rival the success Of the Oxford students in
producing a Grek play, looked about for
some one who would take tbs lsading part,
and finally found an excellent mar in Mr.
Riddle, who has undertaken to learn seven
hundred lines of sophocles. "Gadipus Tyran-
nus before next May. The remaining
characters will be taken BY students.
An effort will be made n5xt winter to in
duce congress to establish . geological gar
don il Washington. Officers Of The Smith
sonion institute and Of the National museum
say thatthey are il daily receipt &c offers
from the scientific bodies with which they
correspond and exchange. and from public
spirited owners CT rare animals, for which at
present they have no accommodation.
Prof. Oldberg, Of Washington, recon-
mends various changes in the pharmaceuti-
cal nomenclature, which are vigorously OPP
posed by the druggists, who don'tpropose to
be swindled out Of their godlike p%rerogative
of charging extra for their Latin, and putting
down five cents worth OF potash as ten cents
worth OF potassa pura, misc. Mill, ed i'd est
omnes, dissolved in AQUA, fifteen cents extra.
1t has been learned that the common
milk-weed which is found ia almost every
part of the United States, end which has
heretofore been considered only q cumberer
Of the ground, may be put to many valuable
uses. From its floss 8 fabric resembling
Irish poplin has been made; the seeds yield
q fine oil; its gum can be used in place of
India rubber, while the young shoots may be
used in the spring instead af asparagus,
which they very much resemble.
The annual report for the fiscal year
ending June 80, 1880, shows that on that
date the postal service was in operation on l,
118 railroad routes, a%ggregating s., 800 miles
in length, at an nnnal cost Tor Transports
ton alone Of $1O,498, $50. The cost Of tran
sportation on G,663 star. service routes (aggrl-
eating 235, 248 miles) for the year was ST.
321,,149. This was $$919,6 | in excess of the
expenditures for the same branch of service
in the preceding year, and was $1,421,449
greater than the estimate submitted by the
department to congress IN December, 1878.
A very curious invention has just found
birth in the brain of a German scientist. He
has obtained a chemical composition by
means of which q mirror image may be fixed
and sold as q photograph. With this com
position the mirror surface is painted, and
the back part of it receives q coating of oil.
The mirror thus prepared is held before the
person to be photographed. The oil coating
evaporates and the likeness of the person re-
mains in natural colors on the light surface.
The image SO fixed il brought into q bath,
and is exposed for half an hour il the sunlight
when II ID ready for delivery.
Doctor Sydney Ringer calls the attention
Of the medical profession to the value Of
glyceriIe as q remedy IN datulence, acidity
Of the stomach and pyresis. He states that
sometimes he finds oil OF these gastric trou-
bles cont ined, but glycerine in Iearly sl
cases relieves them. In some cases, too, it
removes pain and vomiting, probably. like
charcoal, by preventing the formation of
acrid acid, which irritate delicate and ;rrita-
III EEstomaehs. Glycerine does not prevent
the digestive action Of nepsins and %hydrochlo-
ricsacid; and hence, while it prevents the
formation OF wind and acidity, probably By
checking the fermentation, il il 40 way hin
ders digestion. He administers y dra;hm Of