New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-10-01
SCIENCE FOR THE PEOPLE.
C1GARETTE SMOKING.

Tho growing practice of cigarette smoking
,avs The Lancet, is scarcely less injurious tnan
the habit of taking "nlps OF aleUhol pet"een
meals We have not a word TO say against
smoking at suitable times and in moderation,
onr do cur remarks at this moment Apply 10
fine use of cigars or pipes III Is against Cne
habit of smoking cigarettes IN large quantities,
with the belief that these miniature doses Oh
nicotine are innocuous we desire TO enter pro-
test. The truth Is that, perhaps, owing 70 Tue
way tie tobacco leaf is shredded, coupled Win
the fact that it Is brought into more direct re-
iatiOn with the mouth and air passages than
when it is smoked in pipe or cigar lhe ehe e
Droduced on the nervous system by q free
consumption of cigarettes are more m:IkSu
and Characteristic than those recognlzaOle
after recourse to other modes OF smohlhS' "a
oulse-hacing made after the SUBJECT na'
smoked say dozen cigarettes, will, as a RUE
he flatter and more indicative OF depression
than one taken after the smoking OF cigars.
at is no uncommon practice Tor young men
who smoke cigarettes habitually to consume
from eight to twelve in an hour, ana 10 Keep
This mn for four or five hours daily. The totai
Quantity of tobacco may not seem large ou',
Beyond question, the volume OF snIono ore
which the breath organs OF Vhe s it -
exnosed and the characteristics VI til'it Si"
va P,rSs tho proporton of nicotine III
reduced into the system, combine 10 place. .ho
,oroan;sm very fully under the influence ol .nc
]obacco A considerable number OF cases nave
been brought under our notice during the lasI
few months, in which youths ana young lheI
- have not vet completed the full term OF
nbvslcal development have had their health
seriously impaired by the pracqce Vi iht tbSt
;ncessantlv smoking cigarettes. 1t Is well that
+he facts should be known. AS the IMPRESSION
evidently prevails that any number OF these
little 'yhihs must needs be perfectly ID,
nocuous whereas they often do INFINITE harIh'
AN AUTOMATIC HEAT REGULATOR.
One of the unsolved problems of the day is
the Derfect regulation of the supply OF heat by
some automatic arrangement Dr. heSharu
describes in la Nature method WHICH ne
has bad in use for some tllne' ana which tl, NC
claims. works regularly and with extreme
sensitiyepess. Into a water bath there dlpS an
electric thermometer, that is a thermometer
open at the top, into whose tuOe runs very
fine platinum wire, which may De RAISED Oh
lowered, or fixed definitely before any degree
whatever of the scale. The mercury IN the
Thermometer bulb communicates, through a
wire soldered into the glass, with Leclanche
or Daniel pile. Since the uppei platinum
wire is IN connection with the other pole, as
soon is the mercury, by dllatatl0n, touches th9
latter the current will be closed. lhterposed
i'm this current there is an electro-iDaSnet,
whose armature, provided WIN IoLs IetcI'
carries a benzine lamp. When no current Is
passing the lamp Is placed under the stoEe'
but as soon as the current begins thG
armatuTe Of the electro magnet Is attracted anu
the lamp is removed TO a distance. he thSr-
nOmeter, becoming cool almost instantly
causes the mercuual column TO leave the
platiuum wire. AS soon as the current Is
broken the electro ina nct becomes inactive,
and spring draws the lamp back beneath the
stove, ana so on. , -,
1t viii be seen, says DR.. Regnard, that the
Temperature of the stove cannot way, since, as
soon as il rises the source of heat is removed
and as soon as it lowers the source OF heat Is
replaced. This stove has the further advan-
tage of being Instantly regulated at any de-
sired temperature; to effect which 1t Is only
necessary to fix the platinum wire opposite
the degree that 1t is desired 10 have. After thatlt
will he always at such degree that the current
will be closed and the lamp removed from be-
meath the stove.