Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-04-15

wheat supply for Europe Is the river
Platte country in South America.
Large shipments of new-crop wheat
have already been made by steamers TO
Liverpool and Bordeaux. Australia,
also, has now become n serious COM
petitor of the United States, and during
tue past few months has shipped or
nous quantities of wheat TO England
by Suez canal steamers. Countries in
the southern hemisphere finish their
winter wheat harvests mt just the time
when the supply from northern coun-
tries begins 10 be exhausted.
The ReU1e I,tdIstTieile states that a
German mandatory is turning out over
n ton day of glucose made from old
linen rags. These rags, which are COM
posed of hard vegetable fibers, are treated
with sulphuric acid, which converts
them into dextrine. The latter product
thus obtained undergoes washing with
milk of lime, and is then treated with
fresh supply of acid stronger than the
for mer, when the mass is at once trans
formed and crystalliZes into glucose. Of
which rich " CONNECTIONS and jellies
may be made. The process is said to be
n very cheap one, and the glucose chemi-
n
strong outcry, however, has arisen
against the manufacture Of grape sugar
from rags, and the enterprise is under
stood TO be in danger of being interiered
with by the German government.
a French scientist has invented a
number of small electric lamps which
can be used by the surgeon in illuminat-
ing the throat, the mouth, or even the
more internal parts of the body, while
performing an operation. 1t is now sug-
gested that it would be possible TO ma
terially assist the physician in his dag
nosis. by means Of powerful electric
light. On the assumption that the hu-
man body is only semi-opnque, il is
proposed TO place the patient in such
position in connection with a dark
screen, that it is probable powerful
electric light would sufficiently illum-
mate his interior to enable the physician
in a dark room TO see so much of the
workings of the principal organs as
would assist him TO arrive at correct
conclusion rs 10 the nature Of the case
If such a scheme is possible it would
undoubtedly be OF much advantage TO
medicine.
A New York paper asserts that cit has
been shown by recent testimony before
the committee of the legislature, in one
of the most enlightened OF the New
England States, that there are dozens
OF men in regular practice in the United
States whose diplomas, though proceed
ing from Incorporated colleges, repre-
sent nothing intellectual whatever, but
were simply bought and paid for.
without pretense OF examination, ma
circulation or lecture tickets, for GER
tain stipulated sum, not usually exceed
ing S25 or $50. Philadelphia appears,
according 10 n late number of the Aedi-
cal Record of this city, to be the great
center of operations Of this class, and
TO possess several duly incorporated
business of selling authorizations TO
kill to persons not competent to kill
with scientific accuracy"
Not long ago Vienese artist ex-
hibited "a masterpiece OF painting, n
historical subject in the treatment of
which he introduced a wonderful head
that of an old man, venerable and
benevolent. All Vienna fell to talking
about the old mans face, and one day n
mysterious stranger called upon the
artist, and after felicitating him warmly
on the success of his picture, asked him
coniidentially for the address of his
model. A few hours later the mysteri-
Gus stranger and another detective had
collared and carried of the original of
that venerable and benevolent portrait
-one Venceslas Gunesch, aged sixty
seven, n notorious and dangerous Grim
inal who had broken jail and had
hitherto su ueceeded in eluding the sharp
pursuit Of the officers. Thus Venccslas
Gunesch. by his good looks, gained n
models fee, the admiration Of n great
capital-and imprisonment for life.
The Moscow industrial exhibition,
which was 10 have been opened on the
first of May, as an additional celebra-
tion of the cars twenty-fifth anniver-
sary, Is postponed till next year. chiefly
on account of the present disturbed state
of public affairs. II will not be inter-
national. as was reported, confining it.
self strictly to Russian produce. in
fact, IL appears intended Tor a duplicate
of that of 1872, and will probably oc-
cupy the same site. viz, the slope around
the foot of the Kremlin wall. One of
the leading attractions on that occasion
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Central Asian Sarts and Kirghiz, whom
shrewd Russian had hired to hang
around his refreshment bar, and draw
attention by their outlandish dress and
features. Another curious episode was
the bewilderment of group of Russian
peasants at the sight of n small wooden
building. the character of which they
guessed at in vain, till a passer-by in
formed them that IL was model OF one
of their own cottages.
A worthy couple in Norristown, Pa,
have been wonderfully blessed either
by an active Providence or an imagina-
tive reporter. The husband Is now in
his eighty-third year. but is remarkably
active. His sight remained good rather
longer than Is the case with most old
men, but at length failed with all the
phenomena usual in advancing life, and
for sixteen years he was obliged 10 use
glasses. At length he found great diff
Guilty in obtaining spectacles TO suit