The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-01-24
CURIOUS. USEFUL AND SCIENTIFIC.

OF the 100000 known species of plants,
NJ. dc Candolle finds that mankind makes
use of only about 800 at most. He states
that the cherry wss known both in Greece
and italy long before the time OF Lucul-
lus.
Frozen meat trade between Australia and
Great Britain is making decided progress.
One curious fact is to be noted. While
Australian meat is sold at q profit in Lon
CON, at 6Ad, prime joints In Melbourne can
| not had less than Sd. a pound.
Lescarbault, in observing the late transit
Of Venus, saw, as he thought, grayish,
| yellowish fringe all around the planet when
| il was three fourths on the sun, and that
this phenomenon continued until the en-
trance, so to speak, was completed.
/. In Mr.. Robert Bonner's noted Weetohes-
/ ter County breeding stud there Is yesrling
colt which weighs 1862 pounds, yet with
i fne points and all the promise OF q very
fast trotter. The owner attributes the re-
suit to the experiment..tr tried with the dam and
the colt, which is substantially the same as
that pursued by English breeders.
Mr.. Routledge held lately at scientific
meeting that the paper trade was probably
the one which turned to immediate use
1
was utilized cotton, fax, hemp, and jute
waste, and old ropes and canvas rags. In
fact, the paper manufacturer could turn
to profitable purpose any vegetable fbr.
A mixture of 20 parts of hard soap, &C
parts of kerosene, and l part of fir bslssm
has been found very effective in destroying
: the insects which damage the orange tree
Prof. g. V. Riley is the authority. Othel
valuable plants, notably the vine, might b'
similarly protected by spray from an sp
plication of the same recipe 1t can b
|, diluted at will with water so as not TO inter
fere with the constitution of the plant.
There is much nonsense talked about re
garding the values of foods. Chemically
considered it is well known what the con
! stituents of ordinary diet are. and it Is N
T secret that the values of different article
vary greatly. But it is too frequently over
looked that the fooc which hunter or
: plowman can not only relish and sssimilat
q would cause torture Of the most acute kim
n to q person compelled to pursue sedentar
life. On what the former would s:arve tn
il latter would live nobly.
7 When, says DIR. Squib, the fixed stoppe
y of glass bottle resists msnagement-suc
]. aswarming the neck with cloth wet wit
g warm water, by tapping, and by the wreno
s or by all these in eombition-there is al
T other means which will almost always sue
d coed. Let the bottle be inverted so as
stand on the stopper in a vessel of water s
u filed that the water reaches up to the shou
a der of the bottle but not to the label. Tw
v or three nights of this treatment may be n
j. quired sometimes before the stopper wi
yield.
D. People must remember that all attempt
10 reduce corpulence after it is once 81
Is quired is attended with more or less DANCE
IT The only safe remedy for males or femsl,
having q tendency to the excessive sccuml
~ lation of fat, is the preventive one; that
- the pursuance of those habits of life ord
y narily observed by professional athletes. B
a. the way, first class trainer of boxel
could reap q rich harvest by publishing
little book, free of slang, where the secre
Us of his trade would be revealed to the gen
IN raj public. The instructions would
worth their weight in gold, and the do
Oh tors bills for families would be reduced
almost nothing. No one enjoys the boun
be ing sensation of life as much as ms
Id whose physique has been brought up to
to highest point, but who soon wastes it in
ct pugilstic encounter.
New facts concerning rabies have be-
ct presented TO the French Academy of 81
1t, encss by Pasteur and others. All forms
es rabies they hold come from the same viru
o. that is to say, whatever symptoms might
manifested in the victim the origin cou
ex be traced and proved TO be identical.
". has been proved that death after innocul
an ton with rabid saliva may be either from
Id microbe found in the saliva. from much p
formation, or from rabies pronounced a
~ communicated directly. That virus is co
- tanned not only in the medulls oblonga'
:. but in the brain and spiual cord. Expe
Il ments on animals show that rabies may
IN produced very certainly sDd quickly eth
by the acts of preparation or incubation
es by intraveneous Injection It WAS not
y, that after the first sympto@s there was
ne c@yery, but that when the acute ones set
%, al. 80 81 life was ovar