The Penn's Grove record., 1883-05-05
The Field of Science.

Zinc has been discovered near So
zorro, New Mexico.
An international exhibition of garden
produce will he held IN st. Petersburg
this summer.
The number of Edison lamps in use
in American at the end of last year was
more than $4,000, aud in Europe al the
end of February there were nearly 3d.
600.
An immense bed of phosphates has
been discovered in Brunswick county,
n. c., on the line of the Carolina Cen
trial railroad, and about eleven miles
from Wilmington.
Professor See, of the Hotel Dieu, says
that the new extract of lily-of-the- valley
is one of the most important remedies
in heart disease known. 1t is a power
full poison.
1t will not he long before the grand
forests of Arkansas will be more valu-
able than the prairies of Illinois, acre
for acre. A Western furniture firm
has sent an agent south with instruc-
tons not to return until he has secured
100, 600 acres of suitable woodland.
The best sugar and cotton districts
in Texas lie along the Gulf coast, in the
southeastern part of the State. About
one-third is bottom land, and capable
of raising from one to three hogsheads
of sugar to the acre, with two barrels
of molasses to every hogshead of sugar.
AT Sabastopol a new Government
dock has just been commenced. Ii will
take the place of the one which was
destroyed during the famous siege by
the allied armies more than twenty-five
| years ago. 1t will require three years
to complete it, ard the estimated cost is
$40, 0OO, 600.
DIR. Reklam, in a recent number of the
"Gesundheit,o says that the headache,
restlessness, etc., which are sometimes
| caused by keeping flowers in bedrooms,
do not result from any special properties
of the flowers themselves, but from the
continued strain brought to bear upon
the olfactory nerve
In many parts of Spain farming oper-
ations have made little or no progress
since the expulsion of the Moors. The
same sort of plow is used now as then,
X tread out the corn after the
ancient Crental fashion, and women
separate the chaff from the corn by
tossing the grain up in the air during
a breeze of wind.
Northern manufacturers and capital
lists are sending their agents to Georgia
and other Southern States to buy up
forest lands. Thirty thousand acres of
woodland in n body have been bought
in Northefa Georgia. 1t is suggested
hat the Legislature should pass a law
to prevent the wholesale destruction of
he forests.
The United States Commission Of
Fish and Fisheries is about to build in
connection with It's new station there,
an aquarium, to be devoted to biological
researches of every description, at
Woods Hole, Massachusetts,. Prepare.
tions are being made at the adjoining
station for the artificial propagation of
cod, mackerel, halibut and other fishes
useful for food.
The staining Of bricks red is effected
by melting one ounce of glue in D gal
Ion of water, then adding a piece Of
alum as large as an egg, one-llalf poand
of Venetian red and one pound 0!
Spanish brown; redness or darkness is
increased by using more red or bfown.
For coloring black, heat the bricks and
dip in fluid asphaltum, or In a hot mix
ture of linseed oil and asphalt.
DR.. Morell Mackenzie says that
guaiac given early will rarely fail to cut
short an acute tonsillities. The formula
is as follows: Resin guaiac, 20 gram.
gum t~ragacanth, 43 gram. sacchar.
ALI. II gram. ; black current paste,
a. S. NJ. Div. in trochisehi No. $50.
Sig. +: One every two hours. One can
also give aconite, as recommended by
Ringer. If the disease is not checked.
give small pellets of ice.
Professor John Michel, speaking in
his Hist orical Sketch of American
literature of the non-existence of in
telnational copyright, says that " this
gross injustice to the authors on both
sides Of the Atlantic, for the benefit of
the publishers on one, leadsto the intel
lectual market being glutted with stolen
goods. Considerations of interest in
busine ) are of course everything those
Of principle or art or patriotism moth
ing
In the recent international debate on
alcoholism at Geneva, thenumber of it.
res Of alcohol consumed yearly per head
of population was stated for, the principal
European countries and the United
States as follows France, 3 !; Austria,
A; England, 8; America United
states), II; Switzerland, u! Belgium,
9; Sweden, 10; Germany, 1Os Russia,
IS; Denmark, %. In Spa and Italy
the proportion was much less.
A father has been complaining to a