Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-04-11
CURIOUS, USEFUL AND SCIENTIFIC.
PANCLASTITE.

Vi ny pOaZOGlc 6Clu, winch Is one or the
numerous compounds of oxygen and
azote, or nitrogen, mixed either with es-
sence OF petroleum or sulphuret of car
bon. The degree of explosive force is
said to depend upon which of the last
named ingredients is used.
EGG YoLKs BY THE KEG.
A YOUNGSTOWN correspondent of the
Amsterdam On. Y.) Recorder says:
" Great quantities of the yoIk of eggs is
used here, the supply chiefly coming
from Rochester. The Albumen Paper
Company, of that place, uses the whites
for making Photographic paper, and the
yolks are sent hither in kegs. The GLOW
ers use this article for finishing kidskins.
They turn the yolks and skins into q
trough and then dance on the mass with
bare feet. This gives the leather a finish
obtained Ill no other manner"
AN ELECTRICAL PHENOMENON.
A most remarkable electrical phenom-
enon manifested itself on the line of
the Union Pacific Railway lately, be-
tween North Platte and Sidney. The in
Huence, however was felt perceptibly
beyond those points. The rails were
surcharged with current of electricity,
moving from west to east, to SO high
degree that hand-cars standing on the
track were impelled at fair rate of speed
by it. One hand-car at Brule got away
from the section men next east. The in
huence Of the current was felt by many
persons along the track, and no little
excitement prevailed during its continu-
ance.
VEGETABLE GREASE.
The increasing scarcity of tallow of
animal origin has attracted the attention
OF candle and soap manufacturers to a
vegetable grease introduced into Europe
toward 1913, and the use of which is stead
lily growing In France and England The
tallow tree is of Chinese origin; it grows
also in the northwest of India, and has
been introduced into South Carolina,
where 1t has been cultivated for ten
years. 1t produces fruit the core OF
which is covered with layer of thick
tallow, and contains yellowish aromat-
ic oil, used in the same country as a
healing agent. After the plucking, which
takes place in July in the south and in
October in the north of China, hot water
is poured in them and the grease is
skinned Oft after getting cold with
spoons; the tallow nodded INTO the form
OF bamboo canesS is directly brought into
commerce.
DIRT-BURN1NG LOCOMOTIVE.
The Reading Railroad Company has
been experimenting for years with coal
dirt, knowing that If it could be utilized
the mountain heaps in the coal regions
would prove mines of wealth Yesterday
morning an engine constructed for burn
ing coal dirt was attached to the last
train on the Bound Brook Division OF
that road going northward. On the
| return trip the train was five minutes
late leaving Bound Brook, so a little
speeding was tried, and at one point a
rate OF sixty-tive miles an hour was
reached. When eleven miles below
Trenton Junction, or forty miles from
Bound Brook, the lost time had been
mace up. The dirt burner streaked into
the depot at Ninth and Green Streets
pre- clsely on shedule time, and IN good
order, the round trip, distance of 100
miles, having been made at an expense
OF only 81. O5 for coal, or one-seventh the
usual philadelphia Record.
THE PHENOMENA OF DEATH.
A Philadelphia physician has made
special study of the phenomena of death,
both through his personal observations
and those of others, and his conclusion
is that dissolution is painless. 81 mean,"
he explains, g that it approaches as I'M
consciously as sleep. The soul leaves
the world as painlessly as it enters it.
Whatever bethe causes of death, wheth-
er by lingering malady or sudden vio-
lence, dissolution comes either through
syncope Or asphyxia. In the latter case
when resulting from disease, the strug-
gle is long protracted, and accompanied
by ali the visible marks of agony which
the imagination associates with the clos
ing scene of life. Death does not strike
all the organs of the body at the same
time, and the lungs are the last to give
up the performance of their functions.
AS death approaches, the latter gradual
ly become more and more Oppressive;
hence the rattle. Nor is the contact SUI
ficiently perfect to change the black
venOus into the red arteria blood; an I'M
prepared fluid consequently issues from
the lungs into the heart. and is then
| transmitted to every other organ of the
body. The brain receives it, and it's en-
erg1es appear to be lulled thereby into
| generally tranquil sleep-flled
with dreams which impell the dying to
murmur out the names of friends and
the occupations and recollections of
life.
badness AS A DISEASE.
I was talking the other day with Sau-
erwein, the eminent and learned hair
dresser of Regent street, and whilst he
trimmed my poll he said several things
worth knowing. Here they are: "Bald-
ness, when not the consequence of old
age, is a disease, and it is a far more
terrible enemy than white hair. No
healthy person should begin to be bald
till after twenty years of age, and yet
general lamentation arises Of young peo-
pie, barely in their twenties, losing their
hair. Here, therefore, must be some de-
feet OF constitution, some disease of the
hair, that should not exist. Headaches,
and, indeed, almost every kind of suffer
ing, whether of the mind or body, fire.
quently causes the hair to fall. Too
much study or thought, or application
of any kind, will have a similar effect.