The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1880-07-03
CURRENT NOTES.

when one way to tell bad bill from a
good one is because in the counterfeit
the engraving is much superior to the
workmanship on the genuine bill. The
clerks in the United States treasury de-
partment recently came across 800
counterfeit that in makeup and finish
was equal to the real article, and in many
respects was greatly superior. Weshall
have to be careful not to to take in those
800 bills heedlessly.
1t has been officially decided that
railroad company or steamboat corpora
ton has no right to detain or imprison
passenger for refusing or neglecting to
pay his fare. The Metropolitan Ele-
waited Railroad company detained pas
senger, because at the end of his journey
he had lost his ticket and had tried to
force himself past the gate. The court
awarded him 800 damages. A Harvard
student, last summer, going to Newport
bought through ticket to New York
for dollar, the fare to Newport being
81 so. The officers of the boat kept him
on board by force at Newport until he
had paid the extra sixty cents. The
court adjudged him $75 damages for
false imprisonment. Another passen-
ger lost his ticket during the night, and
was not allowed to depart next morn
ing until he had left his watch in pawn
for his ticket. The court gave him $50.
In recent lecture on the possibility
of foretelling earthquakes, Professor
Palmieri expressed the belief that by
means of seismographic stations, tele-
graphically connected, for registering
and reporting preliminary earth trem-
bfngs, it would be possible to foretell
earthquakes just as tempests are now
toretold, and to issue warnings to
threatened districts about three days in
advance. He did not expect to live to
see such q system in operation, but he
hoped and in measure expected that
posterity would be benefited by its n2i-
versal and permanent >esta Ri shment.
Last January California fruit dealer
took 900 fresh lemons fresh from the
tree and buried them in the ground, to
see how they would keep. Four months
after he dug them up and found hem in
perfect preservation, as sound and fresh
and nice as the day they were buried.
Every one knows how potatoes keep
when properly covered by earth
Apples would doubtless do equally well;
and possibly the same method may an
swer for grapes and other more perisha-
BILE fruit. 1t would not cost much to
try a tew experiments in this direction,
and success could not fail to be advan
tageous.
The Medical Times and Gazette men
lions the case of young man who,
while travelling from Paris to Lyons, lit
a match by scratching it with his
thumb nail, and piece of the incandes-
cent phosphorus penetrated under the
nail and made slight burn, to which
he paid no attention. But after an hour
the pain became intense, the thumb
swelled, then the hand, and next the
forearm. He was obliged to alight at
station on the journey and send for
medical man, who declared that imme.
date amputatlon of the arm was neces-
sary. The patient insisted on postpon-
ing the operation for few hours until
the arrival of his father, for whom he
had telegraphed. Before the latter,
however, could reach his son, it was
too late; the poisonous matter had
gained the arm, then the shoulder, and
any operation became impossible. He
died in great agony in only twenty
seven hours after the burn. The case
shows the danger of handling phos-
phorus in the manner described.
An insect called neen. of the cOcus