Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1881-05-12
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rho deepest known worked mine is in
Australia-a shalt having been sunk
3, 200 feet.
Experiments at Woolwich have demon
strated that the transmission of detona-
tion from one mass of gun cotton to
another not in contact is So rapid that 1t
row OF gun cotton reaching from London to
Edinburgh could be fired in two minutes
Replying to the question whether or
not our ancestors were acquainted with
the peculiar physical condition known to
rs is somnambulism, DIR. Regnard, of
Paris, said in recent lecture that one of
the most accurate descriptions of somuam-
bulismi in existence was that IN the sleep
walking scene Of Macbeth.
In a communication to the ST. Peters,
burg Technical Society. Prof. Beilstein
recommends the use Of sulphate of
alumina as the best practical disinlectant.
He states that the host method of making
the salt for disinfecting purposes is to
mis- red clay with four per cent. of
4ulphuric acid, and to add to the mixture
-amc carbolic acid for destroying the
smell Of the matter to he disinfected.
Late researches are showing an astonisl-
ing vitality of disease germs. Pasteur
has investigated case in which cattle
died of carbunuular fever II years ago,
and were buried at certain spot in
walled garden. Guinea pigs have been
inoculated with the matter secured by
washing samples OF the soil, and died
quickly with well-markud symptoms of
carhunele, OF seven sheep allowed 4x-
perimentally to pass a few hours daily on
this spot, two died Of the same disease in
tie course Of six weeks, the rest OF the
liOcks remaining unaffected. This seems
70 prove beyond doubt the existence OF
disease germs for a space of II years.
Says q recent writer: "What has been
the ultimate fate Of the Egyptian mum
mics stored with care in the rocky vaults
and pyramids on the banks Of the Nile ?
Ihey have in these later times been
dragged from their recrsses aud ground
into powder, as an article Of commerce. to
be exported TO Europe. The cereal crops
of England are partly produced from the
muniied remains Of human beings who
walird about the streets of Thehes
'three thousand years ago. The bodies
Of venerable Thebans-swells in theil,
time-laid to rest in fond anticipation OF
securing a mortal immortality, sold at so
much 4 ton to tertili@e the exhausted soil
Of an island in the German ucpan That
is what the ancient Egyptians have got
by all their skin in protracting the dis
solution of mortal remains, Their mar
yrlous preparations have ended IN a
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