The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-04-06

A PLAN il suggested for mechanically
removing scars left from smallpox and
alterations. 1t is by daily rubbing the
part with fine sand. A small sponge
filled with soap-lather and dipped in
marble-dust offers a convenient way of
doing this.
DIR. ELLIS, of the Canadian Associa-
ton, has made analyses of the milk of
COWS feed 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.
CHAIRS and camp-stools as used by
undertakers in funerals, who take these
seats from place to place, are rightly
viewed by the Scientific american as
disseminators of disease, and it with
nearly equal reason deprecates the car
rying around of the ice-boxes from
house to house.
Mr.. Routeledge held lately at a scien-
tific meeting that the paper trade was
probably the one which turned to i'm
mediate use more waste products than
flax, hemp, and jute waste, and old
ropes and canvas rags. In fact, the pa
per manufacturer could turn to profita-
bic purpose any vegetable fiber.
KRUPP's works at Essen, now en-
ploy some 439 steam boilers; 456 steam
engines, with an aggregate horse power
of 1880; SO steam hammers, varying
in weight from 200 pounds to 80 tons;
Il rolling mills; machines for making
tools, 1922; furnaces, 1856, of which
IA are high furnaces; 25 locomotives,
and propellers, with a tonnage of
about 5000. Annual production, 30O,-
600 tons steel and $4,000 tons iron.
The main wheel of watch makes
four revolutions in "a hours, or AGO in
yea, the second or center "a revolu-
tions in "a hours, or 8760 in year; the
fourth wheel (Which carries the second
hanO LAO in "a hours, or 525,60 in a
year; the fifth or scrape-wheel, IL 1854
in "a hours, or 4,72S,400 revolutions in
year; while the beats or vibrations
made in "a hours are 800, or 141,.
$4,000 in year.
A MIXTURE of 20 parts of hard soap,
40 parts of kerosene, and part of fir
balsam has been found very effective in
destroying the insects which damage
the orange tree. Prof G. V. Riley is
the authority. Other valuable plants,
notably the vine, might be similarly
protected by a spray from an applica-
ton of the same recipe. 1t can be di-
luted at will with water so as not to in
terfere with the constitution of the
plant.
THE japanese are almost a race of
vegetarians, depending mainly for their
heterogeneous food upon the leguminous
plants-some forty varieties of peas and
beans which they cultivate. These
foods are quoted by Mr.. Van Buren,, a
consul to Japan, who has also noticed
IAN expression of good humor upon the
faces of men, the anna bility and some
times real beauty of the women, and the
comfortable, open-eyed serenity of the
babies"
Posi- MoRTEMs in Germany of an@mic
(bloodless) subjects have exhibited livers
discolored with an excess of iron, which
has probably resulted from the use of
iron preparations as medicines to i'm
prove the blood. This observation
simply proves that iron alone will not
improve the condition of the blood, but
is merely deposited in and obstructs
the liver. Poor white blood is due to a
fault in the assimilative processes, and
if the blood lacks iron this fault cannot
be remedied by merely pouring iron So
lutions into the stomach. Remedies to
be useful must improve the assimilation
or nutrition and enable the system to
make use of the iron which is sufficient
ly supplied in ordinary diet.-Dr.
Foote's Health MOnthW.
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