The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-05-27
CURIOUS, USEFUL AND SCIENTIFIC,

Asbestos as lining for mems hats is new
idea. Being q non conductor of heat the adj
vantage is apparent.
A botanical phenomenon was witnessed
on the shore CT Todos Santos Bay, Lower
California, where sn pIle-tree blossomed and
bore large perfect fruit on its trunk, an inch
from the ground.
In the United States there are eighty-two
factories engaged in the manufacture of glue,
hsDds. The valus of the product is above
s. 600, eco year.
The Columbus Medical Journal reports q
case of death from poisoning with bromide
CT potassium. The victim was given doses of
eighty grains each st intervals of four hours
durirg four Gays.
TIE only land from which the total phase
or the solar eclipse of September s can be
seen is New Zealand. The totally lasts only
two minutes and q half. An expedition Will
be sent from Melbourne 10 observe il.
The musk beetle according to an English
observer, has the power CT emitting or sup
p, essiDg its door at pleasure; but when dying
the scent is continuous, and after death
more powerful thsn ct any time during life.
1t has bsen observed in Russia that ex-
IRENE cold converts tin into semi crystal
line mass containing large cavities. In one
instance the pipes OF O church organ were
so altered by cold as to be no longer sonor-
GUS.
1t appears from observations made in
France that the development eft vegetable
lie is retarded by an average OF nearly four
days for each additional 100 yards of altitude,
The arrival of the chimney swallow is de.
lsyed about two days for each increase OF 100
yards in height.
Malaria is not confined to low-lying dis
tricts. 1t climbs to hIgn attitudes following
the course of the valleys. In Italy it rises 70
tie height Of 400 to 500 feet; in California.
LOCO feet; along the Appalachian chain. 5000
feet; in the West Indies, 400 to l, 800 feet;
in India, 2 600 feet. On the Aades it is
sometimes found at the height of IL 600 feet.
Under ordinary circumstances moderate
altitude will be found comparatively free
from malaria.
Experiments have been made by COM
mittee OF French experts, including n. Pas.
teur, in order to ascertain the best means of
disinfectipg chambers in which CAGES of con-
tagious affections have been lodged. The
committee reports that sulphUrous acid gas
is the best disinfeotant; but recommends
that instead of simply burning sulphur, as
is done in barracks and such places, bi sui
phide of carbon should be burned in rooms,
as it is less injurious to furniture or mstals.
Spots fscDlae, eruption. and protubersnces
were last year more numbrous in the south
ern hemisphere of the sun, according to the
fabulated observations OF NJ. L. TacchlDi.
Such solar phenomena occurred also in the
wide zone stretching north and south of the
EQUATOR, whereas in proceeding years there
was q notable absence of them close to the
equator itself.
M. A. Villiers has extracted from the re-
mains OF two cholera patients well charac.
terized alkaloid. Its resctions and the ex-
pariments made with it he describes in the
Journal de Pbarmacie ct de Chemie. In
treating frogs with 1t the most prominent re-
suit was o slight and temporary decrease in
the number of beats Of the heart. Guinea
pigs yield to its influence in the course of
four days.
Mr.. ]. Bailey Denton has predicted that
the year 1885 will be remarkable for sort OF
water dearth in the Eest aud South OF Eng
land. He elbows that the rainfall in 1884 was
not more than two-thirds that of the aver
age, while the proportion of rain evaporated
was unusually great, and he therefore main
taips that this year there must be lowering
of the subterranean water supply, and re.
duction Of the yield of the springs which
supply the rivers, entailing an increase OF
the evils Of the pollution of the streams.