Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-04-13
SCIENCE.

Inc russian government Is to buy
TINS year co. 800 tons of iron railroad
sieepers at cost of about $35 ton.
lt is proposed to hold in 1884 an
Italian national exhibition in Turin.
with the view of stimulating the gen.
eral industrial interests of the country.
Inc Duke of Aosta is the president of
the committee.
The Venetian society of public works
has asked the authority Of the Italian
government to make surveys for a
project of railroad communication be-
tween Sicily and the mainland by
means of tunnel beneath the Straits
of Messina.
Special poisOns are secreted by the
toad, salamander, newt, frog, ETC., M.
Paul Bert has collected liquid from
the glands on the neck of the frog,
which caused the death, with convul.
slons, of a sparrow to which the sub.
stance had been administered.
Tannin of wines, derived from the
seeds and stalks, of the grape, when
treated with ferric chloride gives a
greenish black coloration. When any
other color presents itself some astrin.
gent substance not to be found in pure
wine had been introduced into the
liquid.
Some observations were lately made
in balloon by Mr.. De Fouyiele on an
opaque cloud which covered the region
of Paris for several days. The cloud
was hardly 800 meters thick. The up.
per part of the guide rope was covered,
with hoar frost. The mean tempera.
ture of the cloud was deg.
In coppering castiron M. We'll uses
a bath of copper sulphate rendered
strongly alkaline with an organic acid
added to prevent the precipitation of
copper oxide. To effect the same OBJ.
ject MN. Mignon and Rouatt employ
a distinctly acid solution of double
salt OF copper and any alkali with an
organic acid.
Experiments on the petroleums of
the Caucasus by NJ. Schutzenberger 90
to prove that petroleum, aniline, and
benzol, when distilled in contact with
sodium and kept in the dark give, on
analysis, 101 to 101.5 of carbon and
hydrogen. but if exposed to the light
for two hours the yield is only 100 pei
cent.
John Shields says he has succeeded
Gin laying down in a permanent form
outside the north harbOr at Peterhead
Scotland. an apparatus for throwing
oil upon troubled water, thereby max.
ing the entrance to the habor safe in
any weather" He will have oppor.
tunity enough there to Prove how fan
his contrivance is of any value.
The May Century is to have bril-
liant list of contributors. Thomas
Carlyle, James Russell Lowell, Ed
mund Clarence Stedman, w. D. How
ellis, Mrs. Frances Hodgson Brunette
Archibald Forbes Constance Fenimore
WOOlson, John G. SAKE, Frank r. Stock
ton, Edward Everett Hale, Andrew
Lang, Richard Grant White, "Unclt
Remus," and III. G. Bunner, are names
which are known in many fields of lit
erature, and all these aud more are tt
be represented in this notable number
Elihu Vedder furnishes the second OF
his cever-designs for special numbers
and the frontispiece portrait of James
Russell Lowell is said to be an excel
lent likeness, as well as one of Mr.. Kru
ellis best engravings.
A prominent manufacturing firm in
Massachusetts has recently subscribed
for more than three hundred copies OF
st. Nicholas, to be sent the children OF
It's employees. They were paid fol
from fund which had been set aside
for educational purposes. The May
number Of this magazine will have
some special features in the way of il
lustrations which will surpass anything
that st. Nicholas has done heretofore
There will be eleven full-page engrav
ings in the number, one of them from
recent picture by w. NJ. Chase of z
New York boot black, accompanying
an article on "Wolf-reared Children,
by Charles l.. Brace, Secretary of the
Children's Aid Society. Nineteen 9th.
er illustrations add their attractions tt
this one paper. Mrs. Clement will deal
with Correggio, in her series on Art
and Artists, giving an opportunity tC
reproduce some of the great masters
choicest work.