Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1885-04-18
Scientific scrans.

A process for galvanizing wire has
been introduced by New England firm.
1t is claimed that by a thOrcugh union
Of the coating with the body OF the wire
is secured, as 1t remains intact after be-
ing tested by severe twisting.
The physical laboratory at South Ken
singtOn, London, has the largest cleo
trical influence machine in the world.
It's discs are seven feet in diameter,
made of plate glass three eighths of an
inch thick. They weigh go pounds
each. Under favorable conditions the
machine has given a constant stream of
sparks fourteen inches long.
The following is a mixture recon-
mended for the staining of wood in imi-
tatiOn of cedar: Two hundred parts of
catechu, 100 parts of caustic potash and
10000 parts of water, all by weight. If
left for some time in this solution the
stain so thoroughly penetrates the fibre
that thick veneers may be refnished
without injuring the color.
Recently electrodes connected with a
dynamo Of the power Of forty ordinary
Daniel cells were put into forty-fve gal
| Ions Of fresh milk, and IN exactly four
and One-half minutes the fluid was, as
dairymen say, churned, the butter rising
upon the surface. The quantity obtained
was fully equal to that obtained in the
ordinary way, and the quality perfect.
MiquePs experiments Jamestown that
/ the number of microbes in the air was
always prepOrtiOnate to the density of
population In q Society of Arts lecture
/ DR.. Poor has asserted that epidemic in
/ fuenza is certainly due to an aerial poison,
and that since the discovery of the
/ bacillus of phthisia, consumption must
] t,n nI as a. mi aaFfvya dfanrrnV
ola Nature" gives the formula of a
new alloy which is especially adapted to
many important uses in the art. 1t melts
at the low temperature of 160 degrees
! Fahrenheit, or considerably below that
at which the magical spoons of long ago
melted In a cup Of tea. Its composition
is: Bismuth, 4S; cadmium, 10; Lead, 19;
tin, 20. The alloy viii Withstand severe
pressure.
The Lancet says that appetite is a most
misleading sensation, only remotely relat-
ed to the actual demandsOf the organism.
/ If we only ate deliberately we should
find half our accustomed food sufficient
to satisfy the most eager cravings Of hun
ger, and hence save ourselves from the
evils of dyspepsia, or, on the other hand
a tendency to over increase In weight.
A weIl-known scientific man in Eng
land has lately given an order to a deal
er for a hundred specimens Of the cleo
trical eel, for the purpose Of closely study
ing the singuiarpOWer possessed by these
II creatures Hitherto this has not been
investigated so far as TO determine very
positively what is the nature Of the mar
velous emanatiOn that has generally been
accepted as electricity.
N. Herbert has sent the Academy Of
Sciences, Paris, q noteon the earthquakes
in the south Of Spain. He says that
these Gistur Dances, the most serious thai
have been recorded within the historic
period in Spain, must be attributed eE
ciusiVely to local causes. and especially
to the structure Of the soil, which Is there
formed Of secondary strata, folded, over
Tapped, broken by numerous faults, and
often tTsversed by old and recent erup
tive rocks.
So simple thing as a sleigh bell is the
. result Of much thought. The little iroE