The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1882-05-25
Scientific Gossip.

Professor A. S. Herschel reports tha
he has found q substitute for the mega
tive or ygen-bearing plate of the
Faure accumulation 1t is indestructiblt
and highly efficient, but it is not sc
cheap as that which it is intended to
supersede. 1t consists of platinum fol
which had been coked at a high heat
with lampblack for some days in pot.
terry kiln until its smooth surface be.
came thereby roughened with dull,
drossy coat. The process of forming
the coked platinum plate, as well as OF
charging and discharging it, exactly re.
sembles the usual processes with q lead
| en- one.
Good work from human beings. jus,
as from machinery, requires good treat
ment, and the finer the quality and the
greater the quantity of the work, the
larger must be the outlay. Build fac
tories that supply pure air. and the en-
| ployes will produce more; but they will
| ask for more pay. because they viii con-
| sumo more food, and cannot live on low
wages. A donkey can exist on thistles,
OF course, and give q donkey return;
but a race-horse cannot be placed on the
same fare with profit to any one.
From the bones collected by NJ. Broea
and those contained in the Museum of
the Anthropological Society of Paris, it
would seem that early man had to bear
much the same osseous LESSONS as mod
ern man in infancy and advanced years.
But what strikes me with surprise are
the numerous instances of trepanning
and of well-consolidated fracture, show
ing that our remote ancestors were not
SO ignorant of surgery as some of their
descendants may, not unreasonably,
have supposed
The method adopted or recommend
ed by M. Jacquelain for making pure
carbons suitable for ready electric light
ing is as follows: A current of dry
chlorine is passed for thirty hours on
several kilogrammes of cravons of re-
tort-carbOn heated to a bright red. and
afterward letting carburet of hydrogen
circulate among the carbons for five or
six hours. He has other methods for
preparing the carbons, but this seems
to be the best.
A micro-telephone has been used with
success in discovering underground wa
ter-courseS in the Tyro!. By the way,
may not those persons who used edwin
ing rods to discover places where wells
could be dug have been possessed of an
unusually sensitive power of hearing,
which enabled them TO detect the CUR
CLING of water deep down in the earth,
and simply employed willow wand as
a sblind."
Whether American salt meat can con-
yay trichina was question lately dis
cussed in paper by NJ. Colin and read
before the French Academy of Sciences.
The conclusion arrived at was that the
meat in question, as now imported into
Europe might in very rare eases trans
nit trichiniasis when the animal was
but recently killed. the pieces of meat
large, and the process of curing imper-
fectly conducted.
In an anthropological paper, NJ. Sab
alter endeavors to prove, by the differ
ent names used by ancients to designate
oiuse srrl;irugyf 66rweettt aaffskfrr. Greet
and the Berber dialect The names of
the leading African tribes he derives
either from the occupation they mainly
pursued or from the physical nature of
the particular region they inhabited
In order to make = good printing ink
which will not give forth a disaoreeable
smell, DR.. Brackenbush, of Berlin. dis
solves forty-five parts of fine resin in
twenty-five parts of paraffine-oil be
heating them to eighty degrees. or by
Incorporating them mechanically at the |
ordinary temperature, and when this
after operation is complete fifteen parts |
't lampblack are added
A solution OF oh iorija of 1i,o,
'hor. and glycerine is recommended as
dislnfectant, but it is difficult to see
low 1t can take the place of other very
and cheaper agents now in the
Market, which leave no smell whatever.
Ian-bark, ground Compressed and
ut UP IA haff-barrel package prom
'es to become an important Amdrican
Xport to Europe.