Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-11-12
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

FROM S1,000,000 to S2,000,000 worth
of birds nests are annually imported in
to Canton, most of them coming from
Java. They are very expensive, costing
from $50 to $40 per pound. iThe nests
are composed of pure gelatine, secreted
by species of swallow and deposited
against wall. "tam
FRENCH physicians have foundbrandy
to be a perfect antitode to drunkenness
from beer, and French paper declares
that cabbage is a sovereign remedy, or
rather, antidote, against intoxication,
and that by eating a certain amount
people may drink ad libitum afterward
without inconvenience. t,
In late paper, DR.. Hughes Bennett,
of Edinburgh University, stated that the
tendency of modern physiology is TO as
cribe to man sixth sense. If there be
placed before a man two small tubes,
the one of lead and the other of wood,
both gilded over so as to look exactly
alike, and both Of the same tempera-
ture, not one of the five senses could tell
the man which is lead and which is
wood. He could tell this only by lifting
them, and this sense of weight, DIR.
Bennett thinks, is likely to be recognized
as the sixth sense.
LIKE horses, oysters have their points.
The points of an oyster are, first, the
shape, which, to be perfect, should re-
semble very much the petal of a rose
leaf. Next, the thickness of the shell;
a first-class thoroughbred native should
have a shell of the tenuity of thin
china or Japanese teacup. 1t should
also have an almost metallic ring, and
peculiar opalescent luster in the inner
side; the hollow for the meat of the
oyster should be as much like an egg
cup as possible Lastly, the meat itself
should be white and firm and nutllike in
taste. iruf
THE London Times says: "The new
and apparently most valuable method
of preserving raw meat, discovered by
Prof Artimini, of Florence, and patent
ed in this country, promises TO have a
great effect upon our markets. Accord
ing to report by Profs. Barff and
Mills, of the Glasgow University, and
DR.. Stevenson, of Guys Hospitab meat
six months old, was found to- be per-
fectly sound and good, the Ia mus
| cular fibre unchanged and the nutritive
properties unimpaired. The material
employed is said to be less expensive
than salt, and not only wholesome but
! pleasant to the taste.
AN ingenious method for obyiating
the frequent stoppage of trains. at sta
tions, and yet accommodating the pas
sengers from these stations, has been de-
vised by NJ. Hanrez, FreHchman. A
"waiting carriage" comprising steam
engine with special gear and space for
passengers and luggage, is placed on a
siding at the station, and picked up by
the train as it goes past. The latter, by
means of hook on its last carriage,
catches ring supported on post and
connected with cable wound on q
drum in the waiting carriage, There
upon the drum begins to unwind, and
in doing so congresses system OF
springs, while the carriage is moved at
rate gradually increasing to that of
the train. The engine of the carriage
then winds in the cable, the train and
carriage are connected, passengers are
transferred (the carriages being of the
American type) from the joined car
riage to the train, and vice versa, then
the two are disconnected, and the en-
CINE of the carriage working on the
wheels brings it back to the station
| whence it was taken -aW