Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1882-08-20
SCRAPS OF SCIENCE,
Notes Of the Latest Experiments ad r
searches in this and Other Goa
tries-Matters Both Teres-
be- tial and Celestial.
GENERAL NOTES

Charles Rau says that the North ar
DINA carvings ofimages now on exibi-
ton in London are modern.
Next month there Is to be an effo1o
establish a botanical society for &e
whole of Germ any.
Denmark dispatched an explorig
expedition under Lient. Aovgard to te
arctic regions on July 18th.
There has been sent from Stockton
at expedition to examine the, anGnt
botanical condition Of Spitzbergen.
From the Belgian Academy coaes
an offer of 3,000f. for the best essaypn
the destruction of fishes by the pollutiH
of rivers.
English conservatism has given Az
tralian school children books in whih
the facts are all arranged for the Mort
ern hemisphere.
1t is announced that the Duke bf
Bedford has given G., 900 for the endG-
ment Of a lecture-ship in physical
science as Ballot College, Oxford.
Baltimore appears to be in med of
some adequate laws to deal with the
treatment of smallpox, if all tha is re-
ported is true.
Paper is coming into use in a vriety
of forms never dreamed of. Invetors
might, however, benefit by some Auiet
attention to what the japanese have
done with pulp.
Some of the pests that have tropled
the vineyards of France have bee dis
covered in Switzerland, to lthe Ireat
alarm of the producers Divine il the
neighborhood of Geneva.
A very simple and efficient remedy
for mosquitoes in tincture OF PfSlan
powder. 1.-THE powder is pure q few
drops of the tincture Oh the neck and
hands will repel the most bloOdthrsty
mosquito from the thinnest skinned
and most persistent of fishermen.
A description of Corea and its inlabi-
tants would certainly be difficulties
up to this very date. Now, ho%ver,
that four ports have been Openei to
commerce there is probability of
something definite and accurate Icing
known about the country and its'peo-
pie.
In order to secure the greater purity
in the atmosphere of the st. GOhard
Tunnel, an attempt is to be made to
propel the locomotives by electricity.
Experiments, for which the sum OflSO, :
900 francs is set apart, are now leing
made at Berne with this object.
Those celebrated remains at Canbo-
dis made familiar to most re,ders
of modern works of travel by explorers
there are said by NJ. Deleporte to b OF
Brahmin origin, as he traces in the
sculptures images of gods, heroes, and
deities which are unquestiOnably Hah-
mimic. Ifthe investigator sustainI his
position very interesting field will be
opened to psychologists.
Progress moves slowly in the Phil
adelphia Academy. Since the election
of scientific man to the presidency
of the institution several opportunities
for the recognizing that class Ofits mem.
bers have occurred, and have been
thrown away, Perhaps the anti-scien.
titles only needed reputable figure
head to place them in more impreg-
ngble position than ever.-AmCricall
Naturalist.
a Canadian medical journal is the
authority for the assertion that acute ar
ticular rheumatism has been cured by
fasting during four to eight days,
Chronic rheumatism is harder 10 desl
ance oflemonade was given the patients,
DIR. Wood, of Bishop College, Montreal
believes that rheumatism is only 3
phase of indigestion. Absolute rest to
the viscera is the only way to a certain
cure. Simple abstinence from food he
finds gives excellent results.
Herr r. Koch has been trying to dis
cover what are the best means to de-
stroy the spores of bacilli, how they be-
have toward the microphytes most
easily destroyed, and if they suffice at
least to arrest the development of or
ganisms in liquors favorable to theil
multiplication. He got nothing worth
mentioning from the use of phenol
thymol and salicylic acid; and, strange
to say, sulphurous acid and zine chloride
also failed to destroy all the germs OF
infection. The best effects were obtain
ed from chlorine, bromine and mercuriC
chloride. Solutions Of mercuric chloride
nitrate of sui phate, when diluted to l.,
600 parts, destroy the fertility OF thu
spores in ten minutes.
When, says the Sanitary Engineer
a specific disease, such as typhoid OF
diphtheria, is produced by defective
house drainage it is due to the presence
in the air of the drains of the specific
germs of the diseases. 1t is probable
that to produce its effects the germ
of the typhoid must be swallowed
while the diphtheria germ must be in
hailed. Certainly the transmission o
diphtheria through the air is relatively
much more frequent than that of ty
phoid. In this country the majority o
typhoid epidemics are traceable to water
supply, and the transmission of the di
sease through sewer air appears to b,
rare.
One can hardly avoid the impression
that with so much thought of an earnes
and well-directed kind devoted to prac
tical electricity, some of there morning
one shall not be told of grand discov
cry regarding that substance such a
Farady showed the world with his col
of wire. Yet an honest review of tn,
late work in electricity does not revea
anything like genius, or absolutely orig
inal disclosure. True, it is, we hav,
beautiful mechanical improvements or
what has gone before; but that is abou
all There is q great deal oftalent dis
played, yet genius is scarce, and ]
may not be impossible that it is starved
or frowned, or laughed away into tn
hereafter, leaving the world the wors'
for the treatment of the messenger.
AComet Seen ut Noon.
The astronomical contributor t
Nutare says: ave are not awar
that any complete observation of :
comet at MONDAY, on the meridian
has been made since the year l74f. Tn
grand comet in the early part of tha
year, first remarked by Kinkenberg a
Harlem, on Dec 8, l74S, attained an ex
traordinary degree of brilliancy toward
the end Of February. We find Bills
writing on Feb. (old style) tn Tore
Macolesfield, who has fitte1 l., i "
servatory at Shirburl. aStle, thus
The comet appeared 81 very bright las