The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-25


Poison ivy leaves grow in clusters OF three !;
the fve-leaved ivy is harmless.
AS long ago as ITO London bad a one cent
evening paper.-The Evening Post.
The largest room in the world unbroken
by pillars is at st. Petersburg. 1t is go
feet long and 40 feet wide, The roof is q
single arch OF iron. To light it 10000 wax
tapers are used.
A clock which has rec Tired neither wind.
ing nor regulation for I'VE years was placed
by the Belgian Govern ment in railroad
station four years ago, and has kept perfect
time ever since.
a writer in Science reports discovering
within a common pumpkin some of its seeds
already terminated. The csulicles were
from one to three inches IN length, while
some Of the rootlets were over seven inches.
genius of Franklin, Penn, has invented
an instrument which will record the effect
of spirltuOus rotations upon the drinker
He says the instrument will unerringly in
dictate the point when liquor ceases TO be q
stimulant 6 nd becomes an intoxicant.
At Csrtersville, Ca. in limestone quarry
there was lecently found, at depth of sixty
i,et, hun an jaw bone OF great size, in O
10 D. all Of ~hlch were sound. A few feet
lowe dow q numerous human bones were
found, as well as the bonesrof a cave bear.
Artificial sponge made of cotton, rendered
sbsor bent, and treated with antiseptics, has
been invented in England, at Birmingham.
A piece Of the size of q walnut has absorbed
water until ii reached the size off coo "a ut.
1t is 90 cheap that ii need not be used out
once. so that sponge infection can be readily
avoided.
at tie Antwerp Universal Exhibition
q PuE hpP IN
OF the possibility OF sending a telegraphic
and a telephone message over the same wire
ar the same time. The transmission and re-
ceipt OF the messages were effected by the
usual instruments over ordinary telegraph
vie.
The latest surgical novelty is an instru-
II CE. y which incisjons may be made with
on giving pain. 1t consists OF knife which
is regulated by a watch attachment, so that
advances at the rate Of only one inch in six
hours. A slight sensation of uneasiness is
produced, which does not, however, prevent
the patient from going 70 sleep.
German experimenter, Professor E.
WollDy, has found that soil covered with
living heritage or dead vegetable matter is
colder IN summer and warmer in winter than
bare soil under otherwise similar conditions.
The difference of temperture is greatest in
summer and least in spriRg and autumn.
and cools more quickly in autumn than that
covered with living or dead vegetable
matter.
Not only, ssys Brundenell Carer, has the
acuteDess of vision of civilized man fallen
below the standard common among savage
nations but at the same time the eyes of civil
iliZed men often depart from the nermsl or
approximately spherical formation, either
becoming fatteDed from front to back, so as
TO bring the retina too near the surface, or
elongated from front to back, 80 as to remove
the retiDa too far from the surface.
Trsnsfuslon OF blood has been successfully
tried in the collapse Of cholera by a mem
Der of the Paris Faculty of Medicine. The
The patient, who was moribund when the
- medy was tried, recovered from the death
Uvma in few minutes and, from the mo.
ment of the TRANSMISSION spontaneously and
rapidly improved. Human blood was en-
ployed to the case; but experiments are to
be made with the blood of domestic animals,
particularly sheep and cattle.
An article in the Ugeskrift for Ledger de-
scribes DR.. Vilandts successful use of oil of
turpentine in the treatment and prophylaxi
of diphtheria and kindred diseases. He states
that he has never seen any of these diseases
spread from a sick child TO other members of
the family when this remedy was employed.
His method is TO pour fro twenty to forty
drops of a mixture of equal parts of turpsn-
tine snd carbollc acid into kettle OF water
which is kept simmering over g slow fire, so
that the air of the sick-room is constantly
impregnated with the odor of these TIVE sub.
stances. A favorable influence is O. $50 exerted
by this means upon the oxidation in diph-
liberia, although ii is not at all curative OF
the disease.
Lord BrabaZon utters a useful note of
warning when he points out what has long
been patent to many observers that there is
deterioration in physique of the inhabit-
ants OF the more crowded portions of our
citiee. Want of food, exercise and fresh a r
are the causes OF this decline. He poin,s
out that in this years drill competition of
School Board scholars 1t was clearly notice y.
bic that those children from the poorest al
most crowded districts were of shorter sta :
ure than the others. As q partial remel y
for this lamentable state of things, Lore
Brabazon advocates more variety in the sys-
tenn of education, and begs the authorities
to remember that the body should be cared
for as we'll as the brain.