Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1885-02-24


A Georgia inventor has invented 4
areproof cotton bag0ing, the use 81
which will very much reduce the insur.
Ance rates on cotton. 1t is called s.anti.
phlogan, and Is said to be cheaper than
she jute or campaigning now used.
To test the purity of water there has
been found no better or simpler way thar
70 fill a clean pint bottle three-f0urtha
full Of the water to be tested, and dis,
solve In the water half q teaspoon
Iul Of the purest sugar--loaf or granui
lated will answer-cork the bottle, and
place It in warm place for two days. ia
Ia twenty-four to forty eight hours thd
water becomes cloudy or milky il il uni
dt for domestic use.
It has been proved beyond all doubt
that waters which circulate or stand i'll
ieaden pipes or vessels not only take uu
PARTICLES of lead through mechanical
action due to friction, but attacks thd
metal because of the affinity of several Of
their constituents, the result being gems
orally lead carbonate. Minute quantitieA
Of lead introduced into the system must
rank among the factors of anamia and
defective nutrition in large towns.
The electric light is being used to lighe
bakers ovens. A great difficulty has al,
ways existed among bakers to get light
into their dark ovens, so that the progresJ
Of baking might be observed. Two in
candescent lamps, driven BY o Victoria:
Brush mad pine, are placed inside an oven
where the temperature ranges from 40O
to 500 degrees Fahrenheit. The oven
door contains sheet of plate glass;
through which the whole of the oven ID
distinctly visible. The baker now never
need burn his bread or pastry.
Considering its extent, America ii
better supplied by the clouds than Europe
and Africa. In the tropics of the old
world the annual rainfall is about seventy
seven inches, while in tropical South
America it is 155 inches. In the eastern
United States it is forty to fifty inches;
but west of the one hundredth meridian
to Sierra Nevada it is mostly twelveto six !
. teen inches. The annual average of Great
Britain is thirty-five inches: that OF France
twenty to twenty-one inches; but about
the Alps It is mostly thirty-five to fifty
inchess Farther from the coast, I'M
central Germany and Russia, it is only
fifteen to twenty inches. The moistest
climate known is in India, at Cherrapon-
gee, where over small area the yearly
fall of rain is more than go inches, or
about fifty-ope feet.
The process of swallowing food in
serpents is painfully slow and somewhat
peculiar For how is an animal without
limbs or molars to swallow its prey,
which is often much larger than its own
body3 Thus the boa-constrictor seizes
the head Of its victim with its sharp, re-
curving teeth, and brushes the body with
its overlapping coils, then slightly I'M
ceiling and covering the carcass with q
Shiny mucus. it thrusts the head into its
mouth by main force. the mouth stretch
ing marvelously, the skull being loosely
put together. One jaw is then unfxed
and thee teeth withdrawn, by being
pushed forward, when they are again
fastened farther back on the animal. The
Other Jaw is then protruded, and then re-
fastened, and thus, by successive move
ments, the prey is slowly and spirally
drawn into the gullet.