Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-03-26
CURIOUS AND SCIENTIFIC.

VANADIUM ink is really the only per-
manent black ink known. The basis of
this writing fluid is rare, andbwhat lit
tie there is in the stores of supplies of
chemical materials is very costly.
However, there has of late been a guam
tity of it discovered in Ceylon.
WHERE the air is charged with sui
phur fumes, the tints of foliage in the
fall, so noticeable elsewhere, are not
produced, and there is no burst of
glory in the woods before the trees sink
into the repose of winter. The leaves
simply blacken, shrivel up, and fall to
the ground.
PAPER has come into use in some of
the restaurants in Germany as plates
for dry or semi-dry articles of food.
There is no reason why glazed paper
cups should not be employed at rail
road stations, SO that passengers could
take cup of coffee along with them,
instead of hastily drinking it at lunch
eOn-cOunter.
LEONARDO DA VNCI thus foreshad-
owed the telephone: "When one is up
on lake if he puts the opening of a
trumpet into the water and holds the
point of the tube to his ear he can pre-
ceive whether ships are moving at re-
mote distance. The same thing oc-
ours if he thrusts the tube into the
ground, for then, also, he will hear
what is going on far away"
DR.. P. A. WILLUTo thinks he has OBJ
served as evil results of coffee drinking
govt, congestion of the liver, indiges-
ton, nervous debility and irritability,
mental depression, etc. His attention
was first directed to coffee as cause of
such affections by observing disap-
pearance of them in Southern women
whose supply of coffee was for a long
time cut off during the war.
WATER, in passing into vapor, alb
sorbes and hides nearly one thousand
degrees of heat. A cord of green wood
produces just as much heat as cord
of the same wood dry. In burning the
dry wood we get nearly all the heat, but
in burning the same wood green, from
one-half to three-fourths of the heat
produced goes Off, latent and useless,
IN the evaporating sap, or water. Chem
istry shows this, and why, very plainly.
THE Japanese are almost race of
vegetarians, depending mainly for their
nitrogenous food upon the leguminous
plants forty varities of peas and
beans which they cultivate. These
foods are quoted by Mr. Van Buren,, q
consul to Japan, who has also noticed
an expression of good humor upon the
faces of men, the amiability and some
times real beauty of the women, and
the comfortable, open-eyed serenity of
the babies"
SAYS LefepS Mechanical NeaUs, care
should be taken that the belts should be
kept soft and pliable; and experience
has taught US that the best article for
this purpose for leather betting, is good
castor oil. 1t softens and at the same
time removes all dirt and scales from
the surface of the belt, thereby causing
it to adhere the more closely to the
pulley. Resin is sometimes used to pre-
vent belts from slipping. While this
may have the desired effect for the
time, in the end it causes the very
thing which the purpose is to prevent,
by stiffening and hardening the belt,
and causing a scale to gather on the
face of the belt, thereby preventing the
surface of the belt proper coming in
contact with the pully. After such
scales have gathered on the belt by the
use of resin, or from any other cause,
castor oil will easily remove them. Belts.
to give the best results. should have
good attention.