The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-12-06
CURIOUS AND SCIENTIFIC.

The oldest midwife in Paris has been
IN practice since 1915, and during sixty
eight years she has assisted in the
bringing of about $500 children into
The world.
ACCORDING to writer in foreign
paper, animal oils are unsafe to use in
air compressors, as they take fire spon-
taneously in compressed air, or, in other
words, they create an explosive gas.
The following gives a permanent
white wash: To one barrel of lime use
half blshel or more of cement; use
fresh lime and have it well aked; use
Immediately, and do not mix up too
much at once
LARD should never be used on q
wagon wheel, for it will penetrate the
hub and work its way out around the
wheel. Tallow is the best lubricator
for wooden axletrees.
WHEN cattle are intended to be ma
liciously destroyed in India they are
pierced with thorn of the arbus
precatorius. Death ensues on the sec
ond day. Strange to say, the pounded
seeds, taken internally, have little ac-
ton.
A FRENCH inventor has utilized the
power of mountain stream eight
miles distant to supply electricity sufi-
cient for 10 Edison lamps at Greno-
BILE, the connection being made by a
fine wire. There seems at present no
reason to doubt that the force of dis
tant water-powers can be conveyed to
cities, and there used for lighting,
heating and manufacturing purposes.
The Journal of Science is the au-
thority for the assertion that some per-
sons who are particularly sensitive to
the bites of gnats and midges expert
ence a return of the original irritation
at regular intervals of twelve and
twenty-four hours. This fact, if fact il
be, would seem to lend strength to the
opinion that gnats and mosquitoes are
the bearers of the germs of malarial
fever.
AN Englishmar named Graham, who
has been making ascents of the Hima
layas, has disproved the general I'M
preston that life at an elevation OF
10000 feet is almost impossible. He
has demonstrated the possibility of both
breathing and living at an elevation o.
several thousand feet higher than
Mount Blanc and of undergoing the
fatigue of much longer and more trying
ascents than those from Chamounix OF
Zermatt.
PRACTICAL use has demonstrated thai
crude petroleum oils, vaporized, ar,
the most economical, cleanest and mos
effective fuel yet used in iron and stee
manufacture. The vaporizing process
is very simple. The machine is about
the size of -four barrel and has tn,
! capacity for conducting the fuel through
one and half inch pipe for running
several engines, one or two ore furnace!
and several machines for reducing pur
! poses.
DIR. ABERNETHY is reported to have
said to the late Gen. Dix during con
sultation Though a stomach is q
stomach, it is impossible for anyone Il
reason from that of his own to that o.
another person." This is fact 81
often overlooked that it needs often tt
be stated, and it applies both in the use
of food and medicine, that what may
be one mans fish may be another mans
poison. Especially in dyspeptic cases
even apparently very similar cases may
require very different treatment anC
diet.-Dr. FO Otes Health Monthly.
MANY useful inventions have been a
first mere toys. Edison is sometime
reproached with having invented in tin,
phcnograph scientific toy. Prof
Lancaster said in his Presidential ad
dress before the British association tina
"the microscope, which was drawing
room toy 100 years ago, has, in TIN
hands of devoted and gifted students o
nature, been the means of giving III
knowledge which, on the one hand, ha
saved thousands of surgical patient
from terrible pain and death, and, oil
the other hand, has laid the foundation
of that new philosophy with which tn,
name of Darwin will forever be asso
ciated.
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