The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1882-10-06
Wqeh1p Corvallis Gazette.
FRIDAY MORNING, OCT. s, 1882.
ART And SCIENCE,

would destroy the microscopic ami
mails in water without injuring it fo
drinking purposes, DIR. Langfeld
found that the citric acid (one-hal
gramme to every litre of water) kill
ed all the living organisms, excep
cyclops and those with thick epider-
mis-, within two minutes.
In the competition for designs fo
new buildings for the imperial Par
Lament at Berlin, the first prize wa
awarded to Herr Paul Wa!lott, wht
is under forty years of age, and th'
second prize to Herr Thiersch, vht
is little more than thirty. Many
architects competed, of greater agt
and established reputation.
An exchange says that if a few
drops cf ether or alcohol are let fal
upon piece of paper that has beer
equally moistened with cadmium
and iodide starch solution, and the
volatile liquids set on fire, the paper
will be found, after combustion has
ceased, to have attained a blue color.
owing to the production of ozone
during the experiment.
In the early stages of typhoid fever
DR.. Guillasse, of the French Navy,
has administered coffee with marked
success. Three tablespoonfuls are
given adults every two hours, alter
mating with one or two teaspoonfuls
of claret or Burgundy wine. A ben
efcial result is Immediately appar-
rent. A little lemonade or. citrate
of magnesia is also administered
daily, and after some time quinine
is recommended.
Salicylic acid as disinfectant for
cattle cafs is said to be far preferable
to carbolic acid, as it is quite as en-
ereetic, and leaves no unpleasant
smell behind. 1t is employed large
ly abroad by veterinary surgeons: as
a curative agent for many diseases
to which animals are subject, and is
found useful in checking the spread
of contagion among them. Its most
use, however, is for the
preservation Of food. During the
prevalence of hot weather meat. fish
etc, can be preserved by its use for
several days.
DR.. Siemens thinks that before
many years have passed ships will
be made of such tough ''mild steel''
that when they strike upon a rock
they will not spring aleak, but only
bulge several feet" These ships
will be driven by electricity or gas,
for in the opinion of the learned Pres
dent of the British Association, the
steam engine is doomed. Raw coal
IS to disappear as a fuel, and then
science will have banished ''the black
pail of smoke that hangs over our
great cities, and restore 10 them pure
air, bright sunshine and blue Skies"
Herr Heinrich Umller, an engineer
If Kottbuss, Germany, hasju pat
snted ''peuetrable safety wall"
The wall is to be made of papier-
nache prepared after patented
method. The interior wall in all |
parts of a theatre from the pit to the
galleries is to be made of the paper.
Such wall will have all the appear
lnce of a massive stone wall, but by |
pressure upon certain parts, where
he words are to be painted in lum-
nous letters. s'To be broken through
n case of fire. access to the exter-
or corridorsis to be obtained, whence
.scape to the outer air can be made
The Shakespeare Museum at STRAIT
ord-on-Avon has lately suffered
evere criticism. A Mr.. Geary de-
;lares that many of the relics are
childish and in no way instructive"
). NJ. Ingleby, one of the museum
rustees, replies in the London Times
hat they are not ignorant of the
nadequacy of the museum nor indif-
erent to its improvement. He also
tates that J. o. Halliwell-Phillipps,
he well-known Shakspearean critic
levoted many weeks last year to a
eparation of the contents of the
nuseum, with view of removing
very article which has no bearing
pom the life and times of shakespeare.
To initiate black ebony, first wet
he wood with a solution of logwood
nd copperas, boiled together and
aid on hot. For this purpose two
unces of logwood chips with one
nd one-half ounces of copperas, to
Iuart of water, will be required.
When the work has become dry wet
he surface again with a mixture of
'inegar and steel filings. This mix