Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-01-18
FARM AND STOCK NOTES.

Many bricks become spoiled when they
are made from clay which contains lime
IN such quantity that after burning tie
lime becomes hydrated sooner or later and
thus renders the brick useless. This may
be prevented by placing the bricks, as
soon as they are removed from the oven,
when they are still warm, in hole or
tank piled on each other, and throwing
water over them &C a IS cover them en-
tirely with wat-r. A few hours after
ward, when bubbles no longer come to
the surface, the bricks can be taken out
Of the water. BY this operation the slack
ing Of the lime, which takes place in
bricks not thus treated, by the slow alb
sorpti0u OF the humidity Of the air is pre-
vented. &c the lime Is modified by the said
operation.
Observation-Disclosures reports from all sec
ti0ns of the cOuctry indicate that the sup
ply Of good carriage horses Is net equal TO
the demand. and prices on tlls class OF
animals Ss@Bksly TO rule kigher for s2me
time 10 come than they have averaged
during the past few years. Speaking Of
this state OF affairs, "ObseryeT,' IN the
National Lite StCC6 J4dHQi remarks
That .'thero is , scarcity IN the market Of
Wellbr q, bi8h-pricad carriage horses;
they have doubled in value within the last
few years. The man who can supply this
demand with q highly-l0rmed, powerful
breed, possessing the inesum2Oie qualities
OF speed and endurance for drawing loads,
and endowed with q hind, pleasant dlspO-
sitiOn, with good spirits and the absence
OF all irrt4biIity, VIII quaIruple the value
of the breed, and furnish the community
with q safe and agreeable family servant"
A very remarkable paDer on the physi-
Ology OF apparitions is in preparation by
a distinguished neUrOlOgist in New York,
to be read before The Neurological Ass0-
citation in that city, attention having been
directed to the subject by the work OF Mr..
Sully and by elaborate articles in the Eng
lish magazines. 1t is a familiar fact
among experts, though little has been
published on the subject. that in certain
conditions Of the nervous system-not
highly morbid or excited conditions. Ell
ther-a phenomenon resembling reflex ac-
ton OF the Tetin2 takes place; the images
thus formed being really optical, not GER
tbral, in their Srigin and true objects of
sensation, not mere cerebral spectTes.
Certain medicines-nOtably those CT the
narcotic class-pOssess the property Of
inducing retinal phantoms; mOnObrOmate
OF camphor being one of the most sctive
in this particular. Ia the paper proposed
an effort Will be made to explain the phys
ielogical causes and relations Of these by
no means infrequent optical phenomena.
Huxley gives the following table Of what
full-growD man should weigh and how
this weight should be divided: Weight Ij4
pounds, made up thus: Muscles and their
appurtenanccs, 6S pounds; skeleton, II
pounds; skin, 1917 pounds; fat, % pounds;
brain, pounds; thoracic yicera. 81
pounds; abdominal Yiscera, II pounds;
blood which would drain from body, +
pounds. This man ought to consume per
diem: Lean beefsteak, 900 grains; bread,
5000 grains; milk, 1000 grains; potatoes,
5000 grains; butter, 600 grains, and water,
22,9O0 grains. His heart should beat 70
times a minute, and he should breathe Is
times a minute. In "a hours he would
yitiate 1850 cubic feet of pure air to the
extent Of 1 per cent; a man, therefore,
of the weight mentioned ought to have
800 cubic feet of well-yentilated space.
He would throw off by the skin Is ounces
OF water, 300 grains OF solid matter, and
400 grains of carbOnic acid every "a hours,
and his total loss during the "a hours
would be pounds OF water and little
above pounds Of other matter.