Daily Los Angeles herald., 1881-07-29
A Deliberate suseids .
Scientific and Useful.

Scalp grating is the latest rem.
edy for badness. Perhaps 1t may
prove as eficaclous as the trans
planting Of teeth.
A photograph Of an improved
construction is to be tried at Paris
for teaching pupils the pronupcia.
tion OF difficult words In foreign
languages.
Recent experiments show that
the light of an electric lamp trav.
els 1877, 200 miles per second Blue
light travels over one per cent.
faster than red light.
Mr.. Wigner, In the Anaiyst,
states that A merican oorned beef is
twice as valuable as an article of
diet as fresh homeless beef, and
that the cooked OK tongues contain
less salt and more nutritive matter
than the dried tongues usually cold
In European markets.
An Atlanta paper reports the re.
cent fuding, in Rabun county,
Georgia, of AN amethyst bearing q
drop Of water or similar liquid in a
cavity near the center of the stone.
This is the first care of the kind on
record, although crystals of quartz
aud other minerals have been
found containing liquid substances.
Prof. King, the Philadelphia
0rOnaut, c0ntemplates balloon
voyage across the Atlantic at an
ea,ly date He believes the surface
currents of AIR set steadily and con.
tinuOusly eastward, and as an ex.
perrin preparatory to his ocean
voyage he inte nds In few days to
make trip from inland to the At
tic re .boaid.
A patent has been applied for
for All invention In telephones
which it is said will do away with
the "central ofice.D The inven.
ton consists of u kind of "switch-
board" which is attached to each
telephone. When the subscriber
wishes to put himself In com mum.
cation with another subscriber an
indicator on the "switch- board" is
set to a certain point, when the
call is made and the conversation
takes place.
Scientists aud chemists who
have given their attention to the
subject are universally Of the opin-
ion that the ordinary fruit acids,
such as those contained in apples,
tomatoes, rhubarb, lemons, etc.,
act upon tin, in proportion to the
intensity of the acid, aud are
further of the opinion that all such
fruits preserved In tin cans and
Vt ssels are poisoned to a greater or
less degree by the action of the
acid in corroding the tin. In view
of this fact the inventor of a sub.
less make a fortune in very short
time.
The French Government has
adopted a new aud novel ballot
box. A foreign exchange states
that 1t has two locks, each opening
with d different key, and an appa-
ratus which clips q stub or Oorner
from the ticket deposited by the
eIector, aud drops the stub into
one part of the box, the ticket go.
Ing into the other division. Sim
uilaneOusly the machine registers
on tablet before the voter the
number of tickets clipped. The
ballots must agree in humber with
the stubs, and both with the "teII-
tale,n and the voter sees for him
self that his ballot has been cast
and taken account of.
While experimenting with the
electric light at Baltimore recently
to test it's applIcs biIity for deep
" ater Inv its power ar d
u>eiulntss was Ia many ways very
striking = manifested. The water
at the bottom, some 200 feet in
depth, Was brilliantly illuminated,
presenting u grand spectacle.
Above water, o movable paraboli.
cal II dector was used back of the
light, which was again and again
thrown against vessels from two to
three miles distant, bringing them
out In clear, full view, aud ena.
bling their names 10 be read with
the aid Of q glass. The tests we're
made with u Brush apparatus, ope.
rated by an eight-hOrse.power en-
giDe, mounted upon q scow and
towed about the harbor by tug
boat.