The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1884-03-22
DONALDsONvLLE, LOUISIANA, SATURDAY, MARCH 22 1884,

mate in India upon disease, Mr.. s. A. Hi
has reached the conclusion that crimes O
violence in that country are largely result
of weather influence, being proportions
in frequency to the tendency to prick
heat that excruciating condition of tn
skin induced by high temperature com
bined with moisture" He believes that an
person who has suffered from this ailment
and knows how it affected his temper, vii
readily understand how the condition
which produce it may sometimes lead t.
Z homicide and other crimes.
1t is stated that Photographic studios ar,
now connected with most of the Frencl
hospitals, and certain classes of patient
are photographed on their entry into tn,
hospitals, and at regular intervals after
The pictures are preserved in albums, ane
are valuable aids in the study of disease
An electrically operated camera has beer
devised for this class of work, and it en-
ables the photographer, when desirable, te
take series of views in rapid succession
The photography Of microscopic objects is
also valuable branch of hospital service, the
Importance Of which is rapidly gaining
recognihon.
| Speaking at Edinburg upon thunder
storm phenomena, Prof P. G. TAFT re-
marked that lightning is 100000 times as
brilliant as it appears to US, since the eye
requires one-tenth of second to receive
! the full light Of the flash, while the flash
itself lasts only about e-millioneth of a
second. As we see the landscape under the
light of spark from the clouds it is 1000
times less bright than when illuminated by
the sun, but the lightning lasted one-tenth
of a second--so that we could realize its
full intensityit would blind US with the
brilliancy Of 100 suns.
For producing anasthesia Mons. Paul
Bert has found great advantages in mixing
chloroform with air in the proportion of
eight grams Of the former to 100 liters of
the latter, about fourth of an ounce to
four cubic feet. The administration of
the mixture is said to be not disagreeable,
and to be unattended with struggling and
sensations of suffocating. Complete in
sensibility is produced in six Or eight min
utes, and in one difficult surgical operation
| it has been continued for an hour and a
quarter. Chioroform has been success
fully applied in this way to persona of both
| sexes, all ages, and in all states of health.
DR.. George Schweinfurth has made an
| interesting discovery of plants in the coffin
of an Egyptian princess who died about 100
years before the Christian era. The find
| comprises numerous wreaths, IN which are
leaves OF the willow, leaves of the date
palm, corn-poppy flowers and corn flowers.
The inner parts of the poppies are SO Won
derfully preserved that DIR. Schweinfurth
declares that botanists rarely succeed in
getting such perfect specimens of those
fragile flowers for their herbaria, while the
color-a dark brown reds maintained in
as high degree as in the dried specimens
of the present day. Pine cones which must
have been employed as funeral offerings at
Thebes HOO or 1900 years earlier, are now
to be seen in museum at Cairo, together
with variety of seeds, grains, tubers and
fruits which were found in the same tomb.
The first astronomical photograph was
Daguerrean picture of the sun, which was
taken in France by Fizeau and FoucauIton,
April 2, 1845. This was soon followed by
photographs of the moon, obtained in the
United States by Rutherford, and in Eng
land by Warren de la Cue. Later still,
Rutherford and Gould obtained photo
graphic charts of the stars, and Draper
succeeded in photographing the great
nebular of Orion. In 1881 the first photo
graph of comet with its tail was secured
at Mendon, France. The Photographic
plate is now one of the astronomers i'm
portant instruments of Investigation, en-
abling him to preserve accurate records of
celestial phenomena, and showing him
many details in the appearance of the
heavenly bodies which even the most pow
erful telescopes fail to reveal to the eye.
Prof. N. Jolly, Of the Faculty of Sciences at |
Toulouse France, thus briefly sums up his
conclusions concerning the original homes |
of domestic animals: "The Eastern origin |
of certain species now domesticated among |
us is open to no manner of doubt. Such |
are, for example, the peacock, native of |
India; the common pheasant, brought
from the banks of the Phasis after the expe-
dition Of the Argonauts; the cock perhaps;
and the silkworm, cultivated in China for
nearly 5000 years. A few animals only
come to us from Africa. The guinea fowl,
the canary, and perhaps also the ferret, are
instances. Others, lastly, have been i'm
ported from America, at comparatively
recent epoch. These are the guinea pig, the
turkey, the musk duck Improperly termed
The Barbary duck), the Canada goose, and
The cochineal from Nepal. To Europe be-
long, in our opinion, the dog, the cat, the
horse, the ass, the pig, the OK, the goat, the
sheep, the rabbit; among birds the pigeon,
The common fowl, the duck, the common
goose, the swan; and among insects the
oee."
kendalfs Spawn Cure.
ON HUMAN FLESH
SANTA Rosa, CAL, Feb. 9, 1883.
b. j. KENDALL q Co., Gentlemen:-I feel it
iuty to others suffering with the piles and fall
ng of the rectum to write you. have had the
piles and prolapsus of the rectum for five years,
For the past three years l have suffered the
most agonizing pain. Tried everything with
out relief. but after ten days use Of KendaTs
SPAWN Cure have not seen or heard of the
piles since. One who has not suffered as I have
cannot comprehend the great JOY that feel in