Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-31
CURIOUS AND SCIENTIFIC.

The Belgians have built good-sized
church out of paper-mache, and find it
dry, warm, and answering all perposes.
Experiments conducted between Mu-
mich and Miesbach have proved conclu-
sively that electrical energy capable of
being converted into motive power can
be sent over an ordinary telegraph
wire.
In Russia people use the thermome
ter of Leslie, an Englishman; in Ger
many that of Reaumer. a Frenchman,
in France that of Celsius, Swede ;
and in England and America that of
Fahrenheit, German.
MILK powd11 mixed with powder of
beef, is reported as having been used
successfully by DR.. Duj ardin- Beau
metz in keeping up the strength of con-
sumptive patients. For use both az
ticles are dissolved in ordinary milk,
and the stomach is said to be very toll
Grant of the mixture.
The blood of crabs and other crus-
taceans have been proved by M. Fred
erick to have the same saline constitu-
ton and the same strong and bitter
taste as the water they inhabit. But
the blood of sea fishes is very different.
It has not the same constitution as the
water, and thus shows marked super
iority over that of crabs.
Prof. Crudelli of Rome points out in
the Practitioner that the keeping of
plants in ill-ventilated rooms may
l., ,,ofo
gions where malaria is unknown. Prof.
Eichwald of st. Petersburg reports the
case of lady who was attacked by true
intermittent fever while lying in
room containing plants, yet after the
removal of the flower pots cure with
out relapse was effected. The unwhole-
some influence is said to be due not to
the plants but 70 the damp earth in
which they grow.
The idea of making the fre-box of
stove, OF the CRATE of a fireplace, rotate
or turn over uprn it's axis has been
made the subject of experiment. A
basket crate, supported by trunnions at
each end, has been tried with some sue
cess, and more recently an iron fire.
CRATE has been made that can be turned
over as often as may be needed. The
CRATE is spherical, with an opening On
opposite sides, each opening being
closed by a cover having perIorations.
The fire is built inside the CRATE, and
the CRATE is filled with coal, and the
cover put on. When we'll started the
crate may be turned over, bringing the
fire on the top of the fuel. When it is
desired to remove the ashes, the CRATE is
turned quickly round by means of a
handle on the outside of the stove. To
hasten the fire, the CRATE may be turned
over, bringing the fire under the fuel,
and to extinguish the fire, it is only
necessary to close the hampers and
turn the CRATE swiftly for moment or
two. The CRATE us designed to be ap-
piled to any circular stove, and appears
to be an improvement on the revolving
basket grate.-Chicago Tribune.
Dew is a moisture of the atmosphere
deposited on cool surface another
form of consideration, in fact. Cold
water in a tumbler will produce "dew'
upon the outside of the glass when car
ried into warm atmosphere. Such is
the dew upon the glass. It is produced
by the air depositing moisture as it be-
comes colder after warm day, when
much vapor was absorbed. Warm air
can hold more water than cold air, and
the saturation point being reached, the
excess falls as dew, at the dew Cor sat
uration) point. It should be remarked
that one use of clouds was to prevent
rapid radiation of heat which is keeps
below. Under these circumstances
VIZ, when night is cloudy shall
find much less dew upon the grass than
when night has been quite clear, be-
cause the heat has left the atmosphere
for the higher regions, and has then
been kept down by the clouds; but on
a clear night the air has become cooled
rapidly by radiation, and having arrived
at saturation point, condensation takes
place. Dew does not fall, it is deposit
ed; and may be more or less according
to circumstances, for shelter impedes
the radiation, and some objects radiate
less heat than others. Hence some OBJ
jects will be covered with dew and
others scarcely wetted.