The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-02
GREAT FORTUNES
SCIE NTIFIC NOTES.

eStS and preparing the land for the
plow.
SCIENTIFIC NOTES.
The Munich Academy of Art has
among it's 1853 students thirty-four
Americans.
Lime water, with small quantity
of acetic acid, is said to make a good
ink-eraser.
Geology is said to be the most pop
ular department OF science in Spain.
The mining exhibition at Madrid is
great success.
Prof. G. F. Hines, of Carlisle, Pa,
has Xperimentally demonstrated that
drops dimiSh in size as bottle is
emptied.
The smell of fresh paint in room
may be etfectually COTTON rid of by
placing therein pail of water in
which few onions have been sliced.
Water used in wool washing yields
AZ per cent of a very dry potassium,
which can be recovered, as. NJ. Delat-
A glassmaking firm in Pittsburg,
Pa, have been manufacturing glass
textile fabrics during the last year.
The fabrics produced are pronounced
very beautiful and pliable.
DR.. Siemens calculates that the
present annual yield of all the coal
mines of the earth would suffice to
keep UP the fire of the sun, and its
present intensity of light and heat,
for about the forty-millionth part of a
second
according to the Scientific Califor-
MAN, an instantaneous remedy in cases
of poisoning consists of heaping
teaspoonful of salt in and the same
quantity of ground mustard stirred
in a teacup Of warm or cold water
and swallowed instantly.
A writer in the Scientific Califor-
man suggests a safe method of drink
ing out of cups at fountains erected
for public use. 1t is to put the lower
lip inside of the cup and sip the water
instead of placing the edge of the cup
between the lips.
To remove fixed glass shoppers, tap
and then unscrew with this sort Of a
wrench, made of a piece of strong
wood: Have the wood 80 inches long
and one inch in breadth and depth,
with apiece mortised out large enough
TO admit the fiat part of the glass
stopper.
A substitute for India rubber has
been invented by MN. Dankworth
and Landers, of st. Pet, rsburg. 1t is
composed Of a mixture of wood and
coal tar, linseed oil, ozokerit, sperma-
ceti and sulphur, which are thorough
ly mixed and heated for long time in
large vessels by means of superheated
steam.
At meeting of the Linnean socie-
ty, London, last month, Mr.. e. Muir
ray exhibited specimens of dace killed
by the fungus disease (saprolegnia
fdraX), the result of incubation. He
asserted that this was the first record
ed experimental proof of the POSSIBLE
ity that this disease could be commu-
nicated to fishes.
Messrs. Elster and Geitel state that
the views of Hankel on the electrici-
ty of flames, published in 1858, but
only recently come to their knowl-
edge, have been confirmed by their
own experiments, which show that
galvanic elements may be formed of
heated glass and metals without the
introduction of flame.
1t is a mistake to suppose that the
crumbling of brick is due solely to
variations of temperature. NJ. Pa
rive traces the disintegration to mi
croscopic organism. Atmospheric ac-
ton will, of course, readily second
the destructive effects of the pioneer
penetrator of all but the most COM
pact and well-burned bricks.
A contemporary maintains that the
persistent use of the microscope is
the only means whereby the necessity
for change of yeast in brewing can
be aScertained, and that the eXamina-
ton must be kept up from day to day.
AS soon as the cells are seen to be-
come elongated and lose their rotund
shape, there is something wrong.
At Nakskov, in the Danish island
of Laaland, the gas company lights
the streets gratuitously, as return
For the monopoly which enables it to
supply nearly all the houses with gas
for cooking, heating, and lighting.
for heating purposes the price is
ninety-one cents per thousand; but
for lighting the company charges
$1.2Q.
Within the last few years the de-
velopment of the coal fields of As
turias has greatly advanced. In 1882
219,508 tons were raised, against 1877
$50 in 1878. But the very near fu-
ture, with the demands of railroads
and industrial establishments, will
soon make the product much greater
than the former figures even give any
idea of,
Mr.. J, E. III. Gordon, not later than
three years ago, was strong advo-
cate, as he acknowledges himself, of
dynamo-electric machines occupying
very small space and driven at a
high rate of speed. Now, after
costly series of experiments, he finds
that large machine driven al COM
paratively slow rate gives incompara-
bly, the best result, and does not en-
danger life by flying to pieces.