The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-12-24
SCIENTIFIC.

~'A' AslShNhObSiY III HOllNluS lllt DNllC"
ment that DR.. f. Spitzka found in the
egg OF turtle live maggol, says that
he once found in hens egg small
piece OF printed paper.
Mr.. Maxwell Hall has succe ded in
establishing a regular system Of mete-
geological observations throughout tho
Island Of Jamaica, aud both shipping
and agricultural interests have the BEN
eft of weather-forecasts
Prof. Owen, in an article lately pub
lished, questions whether man ever re-
ceives third set of teeth. He ascribes
alleged cases TO the temperance Of old
and worn stumps in consequence OF
the shrinkage and absorption Of the
jaws.
Calomel, DR.. +. Drechsel notes, read
lily dissolves in a solution of mercuric
chloride and mercnrous nitrate. Mer-
curic chloride is preciptated, however,
by mercurous nitrate. except an ex-
cess OF mercuric nitrate is likewise
present.
The commission appointed by the
government of South Australia TO in
qure into the matter Of the sparrow
nuisance have sent in n report They
recommend that the sparrows. who
have multiplied excessively, should be
destroyed, and that rewards be offered
for the heads and eggs Of the birds
A matchmaker at Vouvry, in Swift
zerland, claims TO have made watch
which will run four years without wind
ing up. The Nature says that a box
containing two watches intrusted to lie
municipal authorities on Jan. 10, 1879,
has just been opened, and the watches
were found going.
1t is stated that the Fheng-ehui. or
the superstition of gcomantic influence,
is still 50 strong in China that troops
had TO be sent 10 protect the telegraph
line between Soochow and Shanghai.
However the authorities in that country
are quite well awake now TO the neces-
sity of the adoption Of the great inven-
tons Of the west.
A tunnel TO join France with Spain
by passing under the Pyrenees at some
point equldistant from the Bay of Bis
cay and the Mediterranean is under the
consideration Of the government of
each country. The present routes by
Bayonne and Perpignon are too distant
for a great portion of the traffic be-
tween the north of Spain and the south
of France.
Prof. Archibald Geikie writes in the
Nature giving a general idea of the
great geological value of the fossils
from the shales of Liddesdale and Esk-
dale, on the Scottish border. The more
important of them consist of fishes,
crustaceans, and arachnids. When the
discoveries are fully examined, the
conclusions are likely to prove of great
Importance.
LEtincelle is the name given to a
new petroleum motor invented by MN.
Eteve and Lailemont 1t is like an or
binary steam engine. A hydrocarbon
vapor is injected into the cylinder, and
there ignited by spark from a small
dynamo machine. The explosion of
the gas drives forward the piston. and
the same process at the other end drives
it back. The consumption OF petro-
leum from which the vapor is produced
is said TO be very small.
In the Gazette Chemicd HuiiuR), u.
Vital says the reaction discovered by
Schpnbein in researches on blood Stains
is preferable to any other. A hue col
GRAFTON is produced BY mixture of oil
of turpentine and alcoholic tirc;lre of
the resin Of guiacum on the adj ion of
little blood or q very dilute solution
OF hGmoglobin. But all substances
capable of acting as direct or indirect
oxidizing agents are capable of produc-
ing the same reaction.