The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1885-01-08
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CURIOUS AND SCIENTIFIC.

In Russia, for locomotive and station
ary engines, the use of native mineral
fuel % compared with foreign is steadi-
u increasing. Some railways not far
from collieries have returned to the
combustion Of wool.
The weight Of any iron bar Of
wrought iron may be found by these
rules: Flat and square iron. multiply
the area of the end in inches by the
length in feet, and this product by the
constant number 1888; the quotient il
the weight in pounds. Round iron:
multiply the square OF the diameter in
inches by the length in feet. and the
the product by the constant 2.6l; the
quotient is the weight in pounds.
WHILE there may be danger in houses
and factories lighted by electricity
from accidental shocks received, it will
not be as great as that arising from gas
and boilers. Every electrical engineer
will need to take care 80 as to arrange
leads as to make it impossible almost
for any one to touch both at once. In
case Of fire the electric wire would heat
and fuse perhaps. but would not add
combustible and explosive material to
the flames.
DISCUSSING the resistance of disease
germs to disinfectants, the 6csundheit.
remarks that it il extremely probable
that the germ which produces smallpox
epidelnics is present in the form of
living bacilli in the fluid which is the
principal bearer of the infecsion-the
lymph removed from the postules. The
degree Of the vitality of the bacilli va
ri.s in the different kinds of lymph,
that from cowpox losing vitality much
more readily than the so-called human
| lymph.
The London journal, ,agineering,
says that the irrigation system Of Italy
is probably the most complete in the
world. although it is const .ntly being
increased; and it forms part Of the
elaborate system # defense against
floods, nece>sitated by the conforma-
tion Of the Northern Provinces. Ac-
cording to the latest Official statistics,
the irrigation canals o. Piedmont alone
give 1850 gallons per second. dis
tribu'ed over 1910. 900 acres; and those
Of Lombardy 1885 gallons per SEQ.
ond, distributed over 1850, 400 acres.
A PAPER recently read before the
French Academy Of Medicine expressed
the writer's convi, ton thai ono IN every
6,OOo pcr son- Is buried alive. This eS.
innate. however exaggerated, is not
calculat d to ally on apprehens on
which is conspicuous among the French
people. and which WIS lately brought
to public attention by the declara lor
] Of the President of the Chamber O,
Notaries that express instructions are
given in one will cut of ten to have the
testator's heart pierced by qnaliiied
surgeon before the lid Of the colin j.
screwed down.
Dr. MosLER. writing in German
medical journal, attributes hepresenct
Of tubercles in the intestines mainly TX
the swallowing of spnta. Those WHIT
are afflicted with catarrha! affections o
the mir passages, and formation OF larg.
quantities of mncns and othe. unc.eaI
secretions. should remember that no
ture effects discharge Of these sub
stances from the membranes Tor thu
purpose Of Riding the body of them
II, then. through carelessness or othel
causes the diseas, Il matter is permitted
to pass into the stomach and intestines
It is likely to disturb those organs, and
% DR.. Mosler says, give rise to diseas'
there.-Dr. Foote's Health MONTHLY.