The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-01-31
Che 9ailg 8nlletin.
SATURDAY, JAN. 81, 1885.

Fhe iloielG~ss quick firing gun, it
is found, by experiment, can be
fired with aim about thirteen times
q minute, or once in four and half
seconds. The English government
has ordered four hundred of them
for use in the navy. Inventions
like this and the dynamite guns are
arguments for peace, and science
becomes peace-maker.
DIR. Pick, after many experiments,
maintains that aluminium and its
compounds is an effective remedy
against pulmonary tuberculosis. He
divided metallic aluminium eight
grammes, aluminium hydrate five
grammes, calcium carbonate five
grammes, with sufllciency of gum
tragacanth, into sixty pills, and
gave one of them three times day.
The incandescent electric light is
now used by French astronomer
in connection with the equatorial
and meridian circle instruments, as
it had been before applied to micro
scopy. The lamps are about the
size of nut, and the wires of the
circle instruments and the verniers
of the lunettcs are read by the
light of two lamps lighted by the
same current, and regulated by
switch controlled by the observer.
A man during a lifetime of fifty
years sleeps and works 5000 days
each, eats 1000, walks 500, is ill
500, and the remainder of the time
is devoted to recreation. The first
two items express an average, for
there are many men who seem not
to work at all, and who never are
thoroughly awake.
A very eminent commission of
scientists has been appointed by the
French government to test the vail
dity Of Pasteur's conclusions from
his Investigations into rabies. Its
report will be everywhere looked
forward to with interest. If Pasteur
be right, hydrophobia is largely de-
privcd of it's terrors.
The more able a man is, if he
makes ill-use of his abilities, the
more dangerous will he be to the
commonwealth.
Moral beauty is the basis of all
true beauty. This foundation is
somewhat covered and yelled in ma
ture; art brings it out and gives it
more transparent forms. 1t is here
that art, when it knows well its
powers and resources, engages in a
struggle with nature in which it may
have the advantage.
He that rightly understands the
reasonableness and eXcellency of
charity, will know that it can never
be excusable to waste any of our
money in pride and folly.
Custom will often blind one to
the good, as well as to the evil
effects of any long-established sys-
tenn.
improvements have been made in
the Aurora, the well known fog sig
Mailing instrument, by which vessels
in the night or in fog can readily
communicate with each other. 1t
will add much to the safety of the
tourist, and will be of great service
in harbors.
No pupil can be received into the
lyceums and colleges of France with
out proving that he has been vacci-
mated. Since the enactment of the
law not a single case of variola or
varioloid has appeared at the Lycee
Louis lie Grand, where the require
ment has been rigidly enforced.
Cast iron can be so hardened as
to resist cutting by the file by
sprinkling upon it, when at cherry
red heat, some cyanide of potassium,
bringing it to greater degree of
heat than red heat, and then dipping
it into the tempering tank. Cyanide
of potassium can also be used in
case-hardening iron.
1t is impossible to be hero, in
anything, unless one is first hero
in faith.
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