Huntsville gazette., 1881-11-26

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it up well with quicklime, abeus-shree-=
ounces to the gallon+f aa vow .YAaarTAs
-Fuller's earth-fnade into s--pasts-----------f
with cold water and Plastered on to
soiled wallpaper and allowedtbsaxy
until dry will remove all the-grsase
spots Serb t1e Haneu ailn al ss.s,alro.r,#n
GOALS p ps1s so9 ef aas sas R Rinssa e sAS
pors produced carrying off SQps s;ssy no .ss,
chemical decomposition.
--Itis stated that the average daily 's'
error Of the Yale Observatory standhft hea@;
clock, which distributed the daigti9sssa - b,sof.
81 scol af dafn daf1af bs %anE
October 81, was thirty-six opei eiitp-.,sdsss-s'ns
dredths of one second a..s -
1t is said that many Of the ranroaafs; " 50
il England, Portugal Italy and.rSpah'ss at sTs'i1f
are about to adopt Ancelin's method Of
heating. He uses acetate of soCi8,sRa Easaoaot
suitable boxes. This substance when
heated will give out about,four times as
much heat as the same volume of f~ater,oa a"al'n'
without, increasing the temperature Of sa aa Issp
the vessel that cOutans it.
A peculiar phenomenon occurred in
August on a mountain in RhenisfrFftiS nSSitsot
sa. In the side Of the Brennende BsEs.i add aoia
pit of about a hundred yards in
suddenly opened, emitting great vo
ume, Of flame and engulfng a House rna ''"f ~'N
its nraate 1t is believed that the eaHsan.s,A 90 iA
of the catastrophe the Ignition Of
San.bS of tbe ,orta = - ss1 ~ ssAa n1siiB9
-,Expefiment has proved that, mxai- s,s-n yahis
ganese bronze is ninetysix per sent. "a, hoo
stronger than gun metal in tenacity and
more than cent. per cent. in resisting
bending strai9a Consequently the. REt-ss,nas n4r
sh Admiralty have ordered that it bes, s,,.b.,,,
used in the construction of propelers
for large and twir-screw vessels hGOhs' '" uotiH'b
siderable weight of machinery wil4be oa nssi l.l
saved and thinner blades, offering less
resistance to water, can be made.
The considerable sum of as, ,e00sa'se = "
italian lire ssoffered by the ,RoYalris,a y.a.,,
Academy of Sciences at Turin as 2. sci .
entifcsprize during the coming yeat.'h S'H'H f"~
This prize, known the Bressa, aQht io s,aiS s4t
or of its founder, is to be awarded to the
inventor or author, whatever be his
tionality who during the years included to,n .nr
from 1879 to 1882 shall have, accoIaing !,
to the Judgment Of the Academy, made 'H"'h f'S'"
the most ifnpaftant and useful discovery ~ ~
or published The most valuable work on ,s,t t.
physical and experimental SCIENCE, hat
ural- history mathematics, chemStiwg sh hssua o'H
physiology, and pathology, as also geol-
ogy, history, geography, and statistics.
BY the conditions of the foundes,,this gAF
prize can ia no case be given to any Of ,.t.,,
the national inYentors of the Academy
of Turin Resident or nonresident own ", ,d''" 'a'
THE announcement some time sinae,ii Is,i
that DIR. ,ALosso, sof4 Turin, Italy,, had IA, III,
measured the consumption of blood BY
the brain in its diverse mental acts ek-hi iSsst at
cited much interest in medical circles,
and the various investigations to which
it has given sehave been Of pecWiarsooE ~
interest. Briefly explained, the arm, of,u y, t,,u
the subject to be thus operated upon is
nclosed in a vessel tightly, the empty 'ap'ei 80
space beingcompletely filledwth water;.,su paooti
if blood aows out of the to the n s.
brain the vessel will hold wate ~" 20 s'''
if the flow of blood lis from the brainj Sc; ..,A 10
water will cfowi out of the vessel 1sp o a.f..,,A
that, bya very simple apparatus the
means are afforded for registering the 'oa'nsd 80
demand Of the brain for blood for,anyo III. ~ asu.
purpose, and the relative amount of
mental power required by different per-
sons to work out the same mental probT Y, a,iA "
lem. .t.t .,