The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1881-08-27

OF lncubatiOn.
in Carylc's "reminiscences he
tells lis of his dyspepsia, and how lie
once rode sixty miles to Edinburgh, to
consult doctor, having at last reduced
! my complexities to the single question {:
Is this disease durable by medicine: or is
it chronic, incnrablc except by regimen.
if even so' This question earnestly
put; got the response: 1t is all tobac
co, sir; give up tobacco Gave it in
stantly and strictly up. Found, after
long months, that might as we'll have
ridden sixty miles in the opposite direc
ton, and poured my sorrows into the
long, hairy ear of the first jackass came
upon, as into this select medical mans,
whose name will not mention"
! -Anthropologists have always at
tached much Importance to the stone
age i'll Egypt, on account Of its bearing
upon the antiquity of the human race.
Hitherto the finds of stone implements
have bccuqnite superficial, indicating
| comparatively late date, but Gen. Pitt
Rivers has now announced the finding Of
| worked nints buried five or ten feet deep
| in stratified gravel and mud near Thebcs.
The gravel had become so hardened in
Egyptian times that they were able to
cut tombs supported by pillars in it, and
~
condition to this day. Some Of the i'm
plcmcnts were chiselled ont Of the gravel
in the sides Of these to,n:,s and their
age must be great.
considering the extensive use of
settler water, the thoroughly wholesome
quality Of the beverage is an important
matter. In report presented to the
ComitG Consnltatif d'Hysiene Of France,
DR.. Lheritier remarks that in the manu-
factnre Of settler water carbonic acid is
produced by the reaction of snlplluric
acid on CHALK the one is dangerous, the
other is impure hence the necessity Of
purifying the gas by thorough wash
ing. The information gained by the
committee named shows that mannf:,c-
tnrers in general carefully treat the gas
in this manner, so that the purity Of the
therefore, that settler water may be
taken without fear of communicating
substances.
An account WAS recently given to
the British Royal Society of the trans
planting Of Il bone. the first successful
instance of the kind ever recorded. A
piece of diseased bone had to be removed
from the arm of a boy of three years iii Il
Glasgow intirmary. Fifteen months
after the operation no new bone forma-
ton had appeared, and the experiment
Of negrafting was undertaken. On
three different occasions portions of hu-
man bone were tra,,splanted. the CRAFTS
being taken from patients from whom
wedges of bone had to be removed for
the purpose of Strengthening their limbs.
These wedges were divided into many
small pieces aud placed in the cl,ild's
arm. The fragments grew together and
to the bone of the arm above
and below, ultimately converting IL use
less arm into a thoroughly useful one by
tho formation OF !, complete bone.
Some conception Of the enormous en-
eryy Of the human heart may be formed
when it is considered that !. good climb
II can only ascend 5000 feet in nine
'onrs-that is, working continuously
Tor a considerable time can ouly raise
his own weight 1000 feet al hour-whie
he work done by the heart is equivalent
20 raising its own weight (tcn o,,nces)
L, $50 feet high every hour 4 still
more striking illustration of the great {
'ower of this little organ may I've found
" comparing it With the most powerful
'nginc ever made by lman-the "Baya-
ian" locomotive of the Vienna and 5
trieste railway-which can only raise
tse't through 200 feet an hour. That {
:, IFS energy is less than one-tifth that
# the human heart. OF course, the {
'ctual work done, both by engine and
Timber, is much greater i'll amount than
hat done b, the heart; but relative to {
weight, the energy Of the heart far ex- /;
eeds he other two.
The increasing applications of cleo l.
richly have given peculiar interest to :,
he attempts that have been made to
tore up electric currents for use when i
e>ircd. The latest innovation is due to !
|. Fanre, who has modified with re- !.
,arkalle success the secondary battery
t Castor Plant6. The apparatus cou-
sts of two sheets of lead coated with :,
linium (he lead oxide usually known 7
) red lead and rolled together i'll i,
'rai, being kept apart by Il layer of l.,
1T: and then placed in 4 vessel OF dilute Il
id. When a current is passed into ,
us Cell the minimum on one plate is re II
Hced 10 metallic lead. that on the other :,
oxidized 10 the state Of peroxide. i,
'l'Sc actions are reversed while the "
'iar@ed cell is being discharged Ac- :,
'rding to NJ. Rernier. ono of these cells u
adr large enough To weiyh about 175 Z
FUNDS may store up energy sufficient to
rnl>li afterwards ono horse power of
"rA for an hour. The energy thus .
bottled may he preserved intact for !, u
time, always ready for use. Ii,
a peculiar eAhiaratiny substance e,
rs been Just discovered, under the fol- I
wing circumstances: \ lady of sixty-i NJ
20, III an inti:mary at Rheims, was re- lt
living tinctnre Of ersot Of rye for ais 0,