Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-04-20
BITS OF SCIENCE.

1t is said that wheat kept sealed in an
air-tight receptacle for some length CT
| time will not terminate.
! Although corrosive sublimate is gaining
/ in favor among surgeons as an antiseptic,
! it is safe only in skillful hands.
In twenty years the sales of single pack
| ages of patent medicines in Great Britain
! have increased from 6,661 ,657 to Is, 457 800.
Sir W. Thomson is to deliver eighteen
| lectures on molecular Dynamics'' at the
Johns Hopkins University during the first
twenty days of next October.
Diphtheria has recently been observed
in pigeons in Germany. According to
/ Prussian veterinary reports the disease is
| incurable and highly contagious.
/ Pure linseed oil, an expert observes, has
a bright amber color. 1t runs freely,
1 sparkles when flowing from the-can. tastes
smooth and mild, and has the smell of a
/ fiaXseed pOultice.
Professor Ball, the Astronomer ROYAL
for Ireland, i'll an address on comets, con-
/ sidered that the meteorOids seen as shoot
/ ing stars in 1866 were actually the remains
! of the tails of comets.
| The Gazette .Hedscale de Z AIqerie calls
/ attention toa great number OF facts which
| appear to show that cider drinkers are not
| troubled with stone, and that patients
1 having this affection are either cured or
! greatly relieved by that beverage.
! The late Professor JevOns, in treatise
on the coal supply of Great Britain, as
signed to the year 1888 an output, on the
principle of estimation he adopted, of
17S, 100000 tons. The actual number of
tons of coal mined was 1853. $50, 900.
The Lancet informs a correspondent that
''the possibility, nay the certainty, in
many cases, of flies being a medium of
infection, especially in warm climates.
has been repeatedly pointed out, though
perhaps the fact is not sufficiently borne
in mind"
The British Medical Journal says that it
is very easy to find organisms in any dis
ease if the proper methods of preparation
be observed, but it is very much more diff
ficult, and far more important, to estab-
lish that there is any connection between
the organism and the disease.
At the Munster Agricultural School
COWS were fed on ensilage for week and
on mixed food for week. The milk was
analyzed and the butter weighed which
had been produced in each instance, with
results almost identical, the experiments
proving that ensilage was not inferior to
ordinary food.
According to the Journal de Medicine,
Of Brussels, if the normal temperature of
mankind were 1000, that of a moderate
smoker would be represented by ZOOS,
and the normal pulse under like circum-
stances would increase to $50. The heart
is overworked to just the extent repre-
scented by the latter figures.
Tabulated results of $50 experiments,
with ~ distinct explosive compounds,
were published in March by NM Berthe
lot and Vieille, of the Academy of Sci
ences, Paris, bearing on the amount of
pressure developed at the moment of eX-
plosion, the temperature produced, and
the specific heats of the gases, especially
those of the compound ones, at various
temperatures.
A recent writer on the emotions Of in
fants says curiosity shows itself the min
ute a child begins to take interest in other
things besides its food, and when, though
it still carries everything to its mouth. it
does so merely because the tongue is the
finest as well as the most exercised organ
of touch. At this stage the child handles
things, looks at them closely, pulls them
to pieces and so in playing instructs it.
self.