The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-12-14

SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

1T is stated that benzine may be
freed from all offensive odor by shaking
It up well with quicklime, about three
ounces to the gallon. 10 ii U.r o..ae,
-Fuller's earth made into a paste
with cold water and plastered on to
soiled wallpaper and allowed to stay
until dry VIII remove all the grease
spots. -1"i-' i'Il. ia79e'E 9 : l4- sIfse j..
y "A piece Of zinc placed ON the live
Goals in q hot stove will, it Is said, ef-
fectually clean out q stoye-pipe, the va
pors produced carrying off SCOT by
chemical decomposition. go go =.
s 1t is stated that the average daily
error of the Yale Observatory standard
clock, which distributed the daily time
signals to theErailroad telegraph offices
of Connecticut during the month ending
October 81, was thirty-six one-hun-
dredths of one second. ...f7-...
g. "A peculiar phenomenon occurred in
| August on q mountain in Rhenish Prus-
sia. In the side of the Brennende Berg,
q pit Of about a hundred yards in area
suddenly opened, emitting great vol
urne of flame and engulfng house and
its inmate. 1t is believed that the cause
of the catastrophe was the ignition of
gas rising from o petroleum vein in the
depths Of the mountain. s'fss l'sa
Fs -Experimentihas proved that man.
ganese bronze is, ninety-six per cent.
stronger than gun metal in tenacity and
more than cent. per cent. in resisting Q
bending strain. Consequently the Brit.
ish Admiralty have ordered that it be
used in the construction of ipropellers
for large and twin-screw vessels. Con-
siderable weight of machinery viii be
saved and thinner blades, offering less
resistance to water, can be made.
The considerable sum of 12,00e
Italian lire Is offered by the Royal
Academy of Sciences at Turin as a sci.
entific prize during the coming year
This prize, known as the Bressa, in hon
or of its founder, is to be awarded to the
inventor or author, whatever be his ma
tonality, who during the years included
from 1879 to 1882 shall have, according
to the judgment of the Academy, made
the most important and useful discovery
or published the most valuable work on
physical and experimental science, nat
ural history, mathematics, chemistry.
physiology, and pathology, as also geol
ogy, history, geography, and statistics.
By the conditofis of the founder, this
prize can in no case be given to any OF
the national inventors of the Academy
of Turin, resident or nonresident. =
o. The announcement some time since
that DR.. Mosso, of Turin, Italy, had
measured the consumption of blood by
the brain in. its diverse mental acts ex-
cited much interest in medical circles,
and the various Investigations to which
it has given rise have been of peculiar
interest. Briefly explained, the arm of
the subject to be thus operated uponiis
inclosed in avessel tightly, the empty
space being completely filed with water (;
If blood flows out of the arm to the
brain the vessel will hold more water, or
If the flow of blood is from the brain,
water will flow out of the vessel-so
that, by very simple apparatus, the
means are afforded for registering the
demand Of the brain for blood for any
purpose, and the relative amount of
mental power required by different per-
sons to work out the same mental prob
lem. oq-lc7 -uisA .,h. 81 1's.f