Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-04-21
SCIENTIFIC GOSSIP.

In Cincinnati, says the Electrician, the
telephone has achieved wide degree OF
usefulness, 100 villages having been brought
within speaking distance of the city.
To prevent boiler incrustation, DR.. Bau.
det makes mixture of 10 pints sodium
| thiosulphate, 10 pints of rain water and 10
pints of glycerol, which he adds to the
water.
A Pennsylvania Court has decided that
the transfer of credits and debts by tele
phone is as valid as that by word of mouth,
IN which there is no actual evidence in
writing of the transaction.
The Journal Telgeraphique du Bureau
Central de Be1ne, summarizing the princi
pal lacuna in the universal system OF tele.
graphy, notes as one the construction of a
line to Iceland, for recording the principal
atmospherical events observed in the polar
regions.
A scheme is proposed for introducing
electric lightning into the canton of Vaud.
The motive force would be derived from
turbines of 5000 horse power at Vallorbes,
and the water supply being constant and
abundant, it is believed that gag, which is
very costly in Switzerland, may be entirely
dispensed with throughout the district.
The Quincy Market Cold Storage Com.
psny, OF Boston, are said to have the
largest refrigerating building in the world.
1t is of stone and brick, 100 by so feet in
size, and 70 in hight. The capacity is
SOC, 900 cubic feet, the cost 5000, 600, and
the ice chamber holds 100000 tons of ice.
1t will be used for STEERING dressed beef and
mutton. The Chicago refrigerating cars
unload at the door.
An enormous aerolite fell on February
10th, little before 3 p NJ, in plowed
field near Alfianello. between Cremons and
Brescia, sinking more than one meter in
the ground, and producing rumbling
noise, heard twenty kiIoIheters off and a
Keeling of the nearest houses as by an
earthquake. Unhappily, almost immedi.
ately after it fell the country people de-
molished the aerolite and removed the
larger fragments.
Syrup of tolu, when prepared by heating
the balsam with water for four hours in the
water. bath, is perfectly odorless at first, but
after time acquires benzine-like odor,
which Prof Malenfant, in the Journal of
Pharmacy, shows by experiment is due to
mates present, these yielding first CHINA
mic acid, which is then further decom-
posed into cinnamene and carbOnic anhy-
bride.
It is reported in the Mature that Baron
Nordenskjoid, having inspected the royal
mail steamer Sophia, which the Govern
ment has asked the Swedish Parliament to
lend for his expedition to Greenland, finds
that the vessel is not of sufficient burden,
although suitable in every other respect.
He has therefore decided that a vessel shall
be dispatched from Denmark and the nee
essary requisites deposited in depots to be
established along the coast.
The Grocers Company, with the object
of encouraging original research in sanitary
science, have established three Research
Scholarships Of the value f25G year, and
offer a Discovery Prize of 81, 900. to be
given once in every four years. The com
pany propose to appoint to two of the
scholarships in May next and one in the
corresponding month of 1884. The sub
iect for the frat Discovery Prize will bt
announced next May, and the period of in
vestigation will extend to December 81
1856.