New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-09-22
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

A FRENCH veten nary surgeon has
discovered that vaccination may be use
fully applied to dogs. It apparently
prevents the development of those dis.
eases that in many cases prove fatal to
pups:
The doctors say that the glucose made
in this country might be good to eat if it
were not corn-starch boiled with oil of
vitriol and mixed with lime. Still,
Americans did eat $50, 100000 worth Of
it last year disguised as sugar.
PROLONGED exposure TO very intense
cold has very little influence in destroy
ing the terminating power Of seeds.
De Candolle and B. Pictet subjected the
seeds of plants to temperature of
eighty degrees without injuring them
very seriously.
The microphone has been success
fully employed by Prof. Mine, of Toxic,
Japan, to announce the premonitory
signs of an earthquake. He places the
instrument in pits remote from roads,
and he is careful, also, to exclude all in
sects, the movements of which would,
of course, affect the indications, and
lead to false differences.
FRUIT RIPENED BY ELECTRIC1TY.-
DR.. Siemens has shown the result of
further experiments of fruit ripened by
electricity, and exhibited two pots of
strawberries. The contrast was very
great, the fruit being quite ripe in the
case of the plant which had continuous
light, and still green in that which had
merely sunlight. It seems clear that the
enterprising gardener will some day call
in the aid Of the electric light to obtain
an early crop.
The British Government has just Civ
en- an order to the Anglo-American
Electric Light Company of London,
which recently bought the English pat
ents from Charles F. Brush, of Cleve-
land, Ohio, for twenty-four largest size
Brush machines and 1872 lamps. The
order amounts to nearly 100000, and
when t1lled will make the number of
Brush lights in operation about 5000.
The lights are for the use of the British
navy. The order was sent to Cleveland
because the British company is not yet
ready to manufacture.
THE composition of L. Won Faber's
variously colored pencils for writing on
glass, porcelain, metals, etc., is given
as follows: Black - ten parts lamp
black, forty parts white wax and ten
parts tallow. White-forty parts white
lead, twenty parts wax and ten parts
tallow. Blue-ten parts Berlin blue,
twenty parts wax and ten parts tallow.
Dark blue - fifteen parts Berlin blue,
five parts gum Arabic and ten parts
tallow. Yellow-ten parts chrome yell
low, twenty parts wax and ten parts
tallow.
A CORRESPONDENT who met Mrs.
Christiancy ON the street lately writes
that she is demure-looking little lady,
with very white skin, violet eyes and
very handsome blonde hair. She dresses
in conventional black, and by her quick
step and averted look denotes that she
shrinks from public gaze.
THE deep we'll which is being drilled
at Petrolia, Ont, has now reached a
depth of 1880 feet. The last ninety
feet have been drilled in a bed of pure
salt, and is still drilling. This is the
largest body of pure salt ever found, and
with an unlimited supply of cheap fuel
in the shape of oil and tar Petrolia may
supply the world with salt.
PROF. FOURN1ER. in lecture on
alopecia, says of badness: "There is
nothing ridiculous or uniformed about
it, and it confers upon the physiognomy
an expression of wisdom, experience,
and venerability. 1t adapts itself mar
vclously to certain heads which would
be deformad by wi &, and is the severe
beauty represented in sculpture by the
classic head of Eschylus.''
IT would be interesting to know how
much Windsor Castle has, from first to
last, cost. In 1880, on the vote for
$500,000 to defray the expenses incur
red by the alterations of Windsor, q
member objected on the score that 3d.
100000 has already been spent, and
there was no knowing when the expense
would cease. The bill was withdrawn
for the time Enormous sums have since
been expended.
A MAN living at Montreal obtained
two young seals, and after feeding them
about year they became very tame,
and would 60 into his house and stay an
hour or two by the fire, and then 90 out
and take swim in the St. Lawrence,
returning again to the house and strik-
ing their flappers against it to gain en-
trance. Finally he decided to send them
off, and gave them to a steamboat pilot
to carry forty or fifty miles down the
river, which was done; but the next
morning the seals made their ap-
pearance again as usual.
OLD SHEN is dead, that good old
mandarin who used to govern the
Chinese provinces of Lang and Kiang.
Though the revenues of his high office
had amounted for four years past to
between ST. 100000 and $2,000,OOO per
annum, he had nobly spent them upon
himself and died poor, but owing no
one aught: During his forty-eight
months tenure of office he had sem
fenced no fewer than 1000 evil-doers to
suffer capital punishment. His loss is
the more poignantly dcplored because his
successor bears an unpleasant reputa-
ton for administrative severity.
AN English newspaper has an adver-
tisement calling for 'an organist who
can also take the village blacksmith
business.'
LADIES who wear sealskin sacques
are very liable not to wear them, for in
Belgium rabbit skins are successfully
prepared to resemble sealskin, and
thousands of rabbits arc annually
killed in England whose pelts go to
Belgium, and leave that country as gen.
uine sealskins. -
A MINER of Winnemucca, New, was
seized the other day with lock jaw.
Greatly alarmed, he ran to a drug. store,
and was so precipitate in his entrance
that the druggist installing him for a