The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-07-30

THOROUGHLY cooked meat, when re-
duced to fine particles, NJ. WON says.
is - readily attacked by the gastric
secretions as raw meat.
SCIENTISTS propose to employ a. d
source Of emergency power for ships OF
war furnaces into which petroleum is
sprayed, along with superheated steam
and hot air.
A RAINBOW about twenty-five min
utes after sunset was recently witnessed
in Ireland. 1t was evidently caused by
the light reflected upon the clouds from
the glowing Western sky.
CARPETS, when thin layer of hard
wood sawdust that has been we'll
damped with solution of common salt
is thoroughly brushed of, are found to
have their freshness greatly restored.
Two CASES of the successful joining
of divided nerves have been reported
function being restored in one case to q
nerve which had been divided for fif-
teen years.
A CRANE capable of lifting a weight
OF l47 tons is in course of construction
at Hamburg. IT will he the largest
machine OF the kind on the continent
of Europe, that of Antwerp coming next
with lifting power OF l2O tons.
Now THAT the cold weather is with
us, it ought to be remembered that a
covering of felt nicely put on pipes pre-
vents the water from freezing in them
and all the train of evil consequences
which frozen water-pipes entail, unless
the cold is unusually severe or the spell
of frost unusually protracted.
AFTER much experimenting, DIR.
Richardson has found a satisfactory
means of causing painless death, and
has introduced it into the Home for
Lost Dogs in London. The animals to
be killed are placed in a chamber
charged with q mixture of carbolic
oxide and chloroform vapor, when they
TRANQUILITY fall asleep and wake no
more.
The French Government, are having
constructed abroad large and costly
special machine tools to aid in the con-
struction of light-armored swift cruis-
ers. One of these appliances is q
shearing apparatus for cutting up steel
plates one inch in thickness. The total
weight of this machine and the engine
to operate it combined is about twen-
ty-fve tons.
IT is proposed to throw bridge over
the Straits of Messina between Cabdel
PezZo and Ganzirri, where the channel
is two miles and half wide and the
greatest depth of water 36l feet. The
viaduct, made entirely of steel, at a
height OF 1913 feet above the water, is to
rest on two land towers and three piers
each 1000 yards apart. For the three
piers the foundations are to be of gran
ito ballast up to about seventy-five
feet of the surface of the water and of
granite masonry up to thirty-three feet
above the surface of the water. Be-
sides space for double line of rails,
the viaduct is to be wide enough to af-
ford room for a roadway suitable for
ordinary carriage traffic.
PERHAPS in no other condition of dis
ease, says J. M. Anders, Phi. D., do
plants and flowers offer such promise
of becoming valuable Their peutic
agents as in the dread and awe-inspiring
disease, consumption of the lungs, and
more especially do they seem to be
effectual in preventing the development
of the disease. In order to obtain the
best results it is necessary that both
the living and sleeping rooms should
be arranged for the purpose, and we'll
stocked with foliage and towering
plants, and the person or persons for
whose benefit they may be employed
should assume the care OF the plants,
which soon, to most persons. becomes a
pleasing occupation, and affords the
plants better opportunity of accom-
plishing good results, as it brings them
patient and plants-into closer con-
tact 1t has been found that conven-
lent and efficient substitute for winter
or summer health resort can be- secured
by simply stocking the living and Sleep
ing apartments of the patient with
growing plants in winter and living
among and cultivating them out Of
doors in summer.