Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-06-09
Scientific Miscellany.


Professor Schlager of Vienna 10
for the statement that
blue-light has quoting and sooth.
ing influence on the insane.
A complete cure for dandruff il
said to be effected by washing with
a solution of borax once each tenth
day, and using bay rum each alter
nate day. At first use it every day.
The light which falls upon the
earth from the satellites of Mars is
about equivalent to what a mans
hand on which the sun shone at
Washington would reflect to Boston
A Florida Company has been so
successful in making paper from pal
metto that it is SAID twenty mills
will be erected in sections of the
State where palmetto trees are
abundant.
Instantaneous photography is be-
coming marvelousIy minute in its
effects. An Englishman has photo
graphed swallow on the wing and
fixed the birds shadow on the water
perfectly.
A leading scientist is reported as
saying that with the Improvements
now going on'in telephone COM
munication, it will not be long BE- :.
fore conversation taking place = q
San Francisco can be heard in Boz
ton.
Cast iron, according to Van Nos.
trand's Magazine, though now 90
universally employed, was not in
commercial use before the year 100.
when Abraham Darby, an intelli-
gent mechanic, who had brought
some Dutch workmen to establish .
brass.fonndry at Bristol, conceived
: the idea that iron might be sub.
stituted for brass.
Professor Burt G. Wilder of Cor
nell, the eminent psychologist, re-
Gently demonstrated that the muscles
could be made to contract under
the influence of electricity for Ion
ger time after death than has BEEN
formerly supposed. Under unfavor-
able circumstances the diaphragm Of
an animal was made to contract
powerfully thirty minutes after death
and fifteen minutes after its removal
from the body.
A machine, said to be the inven-
ton of NJ. Fsvier, and designed for
stripping the bark from ramie, was
some time ago exhibited in the pres
ence of large gathering of persons
interested in the progress of agricul-
ture. The apparatus instantly broke
the rigid stalks, rejected tho woody
portion, and transformed the bark
into straight, fine and silky 6laments,
thoroughly prepared for spinning
and dyeing.
The entire French Coast is to be
lighted with electricity, which as far
back as 1876 was employed in tho
lighthouses near Havre. 1t il now
thought that the development of the
new system warrants its general use
on the French Coast. Forty-two
lighthouses are to be provided with
electric lights and with steam trum-
pets for fog signals, at first cost Of
about 81 SOC, 900 and an annual ex-
penditure of about $50. 900 for main.
tenance.
Absence or prevalence of cock.
reaches in house is capital test of
the cleanliness and neatness Of those
having charge of the sanitary man
agement of the dwelling. If any arc
seen, be sure that bread crumbs and
other food refuse are left in apart
ments, for reaches do not live on air.
A neglect to deprive these pests Of
food implies that there are present
more troublesome insects Of sleep
destroying characterize Cimer lee
taurus for instance. The moral Of
this is, do not take lodgings in Q
house which is infested by ;" croton.
bugs" or cockroaches. An abundant
distribution of borax or of Pyrrheum
roseum indicates, generally, plen-
tiful lack of the proper application Of
brush and dust-pan or of soap and
water.
Not less than 154, 184 800 tons Of
coal were taken out of British mines
last year, and to do this work 1885,
OOO men were employed. Sir Henry
Bessemer has been endeavoling to
make people realize what that guam
tity of coal really is. He says that
if this coal were formed into cylin-
drical columns so feet high in diam
eter and 500 feet in height, and il
these were placed in a row their own
diameter apart, they would make
colorado IS miles $50 yards long,
the product of each working day be-
ing sufficient to make IA such col.
ums. Another method Of giving
some idea of the immense nature of
the British coal industry ia this. The