The Northwestern standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1885-1886, 1886-03-27
rTE NORTHWESTERN STANDARDS SATURDAY MARCH s7 1885
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III "A mother who feared her son might III
herit a taste for liquors from d drinking
ancestry gave him occasionally wine In
which small doses of tartar emetlc had
been mingled. He acquired such an aver
sion for the taste OF liquors Of all sorts that
5 he could not be induced to touch them
She put ia Just enough to nauseate him.
sS Lumber is now being manufactured
3}out OF paper, any the lumber is said to be
better than the timber that comes from
the woods, for the reason that it will not
warp, crack split or fall off The only
fat tory in the world where this straw lnm.
Der is made is ut Long Island City. The
lumber IS now used for ceilings and walls
III place of lathe and plaster.
In order to settle the question as to the
proper treatment for persons who hay e
been frozen DIR. Laptchinkski has made
a series OF very careful experiments upon
dogs. He found that of twenty animals
treated by the method OF gradual EestlsGl-
tation iii q cold room, fourteen persisted;
of twenty placed at once in warm room,
eightdied, while twenty put Immediately
into Il hot bath recovered quickly and
without accident.
Lake Michigan fisherman assert that
part of the bottom Of the lake is covered
With forests This discovery was made py
means of their nets, which cannot be used
further out then 90 miles from the shore
Trees which have been washed ashore from
this forest bore evidence of having remain :
ed under water for centuries Though
seemingly in d perfect state OF perseryatlon
at first. they soon decnyed after exposure
to the atmosphere The wood also Is said
to be Of variety entirely unknown in this
country.
Thomas A. Edison, the electrician,
claims to have discovered another won
derful invention-thaC Of being able to
send messages to and from railway trains
running at high rate OF speed, The
system was practically tested on the
Staten Island Railroad, and with great
success. Messages were shot from train
running e5 miles an hour to the regular
B. & o. duplex wire over 100 feet away.
The answers leaped from the wires dowr
to the roof and we're received in the usual
way much to the astonishment Of those on
board the train.
Prof c. A. Young, of Princeton College,
begs artists not to paint the crescent
moon upside down as Hogarth did in one
of his pictures, and says: 1.-The moon is
the petrifed daughter of the earth, for IT
is destitute Of life. air, and water The sun
and moon alone of all the heavenly bodies
affect appreciably the earth. The temper
atIlre OH the moon is extreme. In the
dark spots, under the shadow of high
ranges of mountains, the temperature is
about 200 degrees below zero, while in
places where the sunlight strikes the heat
is about that of boiling water. The moon
is potential in tidal influence, but beyond
this has almost no effect on the earth II
she were annihilated it would make New
York one degree colder. But, swinging
along in her present orbit, she exercises
absolutely no influence on the weather.
In the best electric lamps the little horse
shoe is made of bamboo, and this material
has proved its superiority to its rival, paper,
in several ways. The bamboo comes from
Japan in bundles Of slips a foot in length
japanese bamboo is Of finer quality than
the Chinese. 1t is first split up into little
square strips Girls round these off by
running them through dies until they look
like little broom straws These are put
in crucibles with graphite and submitted
to white heat for several hours. This
carbonizes them thoroughly. The Ala
ments are not all of exactly the same size
when taken ont Of the crucibles, and If
used In that state would present varying
resistance to the current, and the lamps
would not be even and economical in their
working To make them uniform they
are put one by one into a glass jar, from
which the air can be exhausted, and n.y.
dro-carb0n gas, the lightest of the pro-
ducts of petroleum, can be admitted. A
current Of electricity is run through the
horseshoe filament, and 1t absorbs carbon
from the gas until the operator sees that
its resistance has been reduced to the reg
ulation amount
Prof. Nichols, editor OF Boston journal
of Chemistry, has declared that alcohol is
no longer necessity in any Of the arts or
sciences. Fifty years ago Prot. Muzzey,
at the head of Dartmouth Medical School,
said in q lecture al admit that alcohol is
sometimes convenient; {bnt what is that
taking into view the dangeri) deny that
it is essential in physic or surgery. In q
fainting fit we have ammonia and the vola-
tile oils. Is it required for tonic effect?
The tonic roots herbs and barks impart
their invigorating properties to water or
acid. Do we need solvent for opium,
We have it in the acetous acid. The black
drop is one of the best solutions Of opium |
ever invented As to medicinal resins, |
they may be given in u fine powder, rub
bed with some inert friable substance, or
made into an emulsion. The ordinary |
mode of using them does not carry them
into the stomach in a state of solution, rs |
they are instantly precipitated in q I
1aecnlent form on mixing with water or |
saliva. CAS- camphors) As for the essen
tial oils, they may be given in the form Of I
liquid soap or emulsion rubbed with |
alkali, or sugar and water, then there Is |
no fear of undesirable results. =
Among the inventive things demanded |
there are calls for macarpni- machiner--,
ss.,,a rafor.s for mica and 1ra mite coed rel I