The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1885-12-15
Popular Science .

A recent earthquake in France affected
only the chalk formations at the earth's
surface, and was neither heard nor felt by
men at work in the coal mines beneath.
A writer in the Bulletin Generate de The
rdpeaique says that refrigeration of the
lobe of the ear will stop hiccough, what
ever its cause may be. Very slight refri
geration, such as drop of cold water, is
to be sufficient.
There is a qualitative test for butter so
simple that any housewife can put it into
successful practice. A clean piece of white
paper is smeared with little of the sus-
pected butter. The paper is then rolled
up and set on fire If the butter is pure
the smell of the burning paper is rather
pleasant but the odor is distinctly tai
lowy if the butter is made up wholly
or in part of animal fats
The Union PharmGceutigue says that an
eminent chemist prepared with great care
a mixture of manganese, permanganate
of potash and oxalic acid, only to find that
the mixture exploded few minutes after
ward in the patients pocket. 1t also gives
an instance of a tooth powder composed
of cachou and chlorate of potash explod-
ing in the mouth of person engaged in
brushing his teeth.
In the British Medical Journal, DIR. Foth-
ergill says that patient dying of exhaus-
ton is generally dying of starvation, 1--WE
give him beef tea, calls foot jelly, alcohol,
settler, and milk that is, a small guam
tity of sugar Of milk, and some fat But
the Jelly is the poorest sort of food, and
the beef tea a mere stimulant. The popu-
lar belief that beef tea contains the very
strength of the meat is terrible error !;
it has no food value
The best remedy for bleeding at the
nose, as given by DR.. Gleason at one of
his lectures, is in the vigorous motion of
the Jaws as if in the act of chewing. In
the case of child wad of paper should
be inserted to chew it hard. 1t is the mo
ton of the jaw that stops the flow of
blood. This remedy is so very simple
that many will feel inclined to laugh at it,
but it has never been known to fail in the
severest cases.
Several household articles, such as
glass fish globes, paper weights made of
a pyramid of glass balls. and the lenses of
stereoscopes, have been found to act as a
burning glass in the sun, and to have set
fire to light materials, such as cloth and
paper, thereby causing danger to life and
property. Brightly-tinned and nickel
wash dishes have also been known to
focus the suns rays by reflection, and
tend to bring out similar consequences.
1t seems that, from a scientific point of
view, perfectly clean hands are an impos
sibility In the Gasetta Aedioa ItqliaRa Dr.
Forster says that after the most diligent
washings and brushings with soap and
water and rinsings with carbolic acid and
other disinfectants, the hands remained
so impure that upon touching the fingers
to steralized gelatine, heterogeneous
were rapidly developed The Doctor
found indeed, that, on rinsing the hands
with a solution of one to 1000 of corrosive
sublimate they became " scientifically
cleansed for the time, but that in wip-
ing them upon towel not previously dis
infected they returned to their sad condi-
ton of uncleanliness.