Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-03-10
CURIOUS AND SCIENTIFIC.

Able MoIGNE, Of Les Mondes, be.
ieyes that the ancient cubit, which is
ascertained to be the ten millionth part
of the polar axis of the earth. is prefer
able to the meter as a standard OF meas
urement.
CoNTNUoUs baths, as carried out in
Vienna, are reported unoficially by NJ
Lenoir as very eficacious in the treat
ment Of skin diseases, and he warmly
recommends theip introduction into the
hospitals of Paris.
A PLAN is suggested for mechanically
removing scars left from smallpox and
alterations. It is by daily rubbing the
part with fine sand. A small sponge
filed with soap lather and dipped in
marble dust offers a convenient way of
doing this.
DIR. ELLIS, of the Canadian Associa-
ton, has made analysis of the milk OF
COWS fed with different kinds of food.
He finds there is a greater amount of
fatty matter in the milk of COWS fed on
distillery refuse, but he saw no evidence
that the milk was impaired by such
feeding.
IT is stated that several kinds of
woods, says the Engineer, although OF
great durability in themselves, act upon
each other to their mutual destruction.
Experiments with cyprus and walnut
and cyprus and cedar prove that they
will rot each other when joined togeth-
er, but on separation the rot will cease
and the timber remain perfectly sound
for long period.
A GLUE which will resist the action of
water is made by boiling one pound of
glue in a sufficiercy of skinned milk
To make strong glue for inlaying and
veneering, take the best light brown
glue, free from clouds or streaks, dis
solve it in water, and to every pint add
one half-gill of the best vinegar and one
half-ounce of isinglass.
The longest line of fence in the world
will be the wire fence extending from
the Indian Territory west across the
Texas Panhandle ard thirty-five miles
into New Mexico. We are informed
that eighty-fve miles of this fence is
already under contract. Its course will
be in the line of the Canadian River,
and its purpose is to stop the drift of
the Northern cattle. 1t is bold and
splendid enterprise, and Will pay large
percentage on the investment. The
fence will be over 200 miles long.
IN mining coal in England cartridges
of powdered quick-iime, strongly com
pressed, have been used with good re-
suits in blasting. These cartridges are
about three inches in diameter, and
each has running through it perfor-
ated iron tube, through which water can
be forced. The swelling of the lime
rends the solid mass of coal quietly but
effectively, without danger and without
smoke. This mode of blasting may be
found useful in operations on the farm,
where powder or other dangerous ex-
plosive materials cannot be used.
RICE constitutes nearly one-half of
the food of the people of Japan. But
as to food and drink, climatic conditions
and industrial demands do not as yet
exercise their due influence on the wri-
ters Of works on hygiene when forming
their conclusions. One race may live
and move and have tolerable useful
existence III a certain region upon a sort
Of sustenance altogether inadequate to
another di1fently envirOned. Suppose,
for instance, and to put this important
question sharply and strongly, the diet
of an Esquimaux and an inhabitant of
the tropics were interchanged, on the
strength of local sanitary statistics,
would not the chances of each speedily
reaching the grave be about equal and
the'lease of life of both be considerably
shortened?