The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-11-05
STUDY AND WORKSHOP.

.nscct-prOOf Innings for trunks,
closets, etc., as a protection from moths
or other insects. is made by stepping
any suitable fabric in a solution of to-
baccO anu cascarilla bark macerated in
benzine. then drying and STEPPING in
tobacco, cascarilla bark, and hot water.
1t is estimated that the varied ma
chinery of Great Britain now operated
by steam power is capable of perform
ing more work, and hence producing
more products, than could be effected
by the labor of 400. 100000 able-bodied
men. greater number than all the
wOrkingmen on earth.
At "A recent meeting of the Royal
Microscopical society, London, Prof
Bell, al the request of the president,
gave an account of what he regarded as
the most extraordinary biological fact
brought TO light during the last twenty
five years-the existence of third
eye at the top of the mead of certain
lizards.
Prof. j. II. Long of the Illinois State
MicrOscopical society, after, repeated
experiments. says: Taking all things
into consideration, am forced to be.
lieve that we have no absolutely certain
method of Distinguishing between but
ter and some of its substitutes, and that,
of all methods proposed, the micro
scopic are, perhaps, the least reliable. "
1t may seem strange to the non-pro-
fessional that, in spite of persistent and
skillful attempts to solve the problem,
chemists are obliged to admit ignorance
of the exact composition of SO common
a substance as the white of an egg; yet,
until they acquire an accurate knowl-
edge of the constitution of albuminous
substances, the processes of animal
economy cannot be explained.
A new and interesting form of stereo-
scope consists of two dissOlving-view
lanterns placed side by side, each OF
which throws magniied stereoscopic
picture on the screen. In front of these
lanterns there is rotating disk, por-
tons of which are cut away, alternately
shutting off the picture from each liant
ern. by so arranging the rotating disk
as to permit each eye to see only the
view from one of the lanterns during
its very brief exposure sterescopic
effect is produced, the impression OF
each picture remaining upon the retina
of the corresponding eye long enough
to appear to be continuous.
Children who are allowed to 90 bare
foot, says the Lancet, enjoy almost per.
feet immunity from the danger of cold
by accidental chilling of the feet; and
they are altogether healthier and hap.
| pier than those who, in obedience to
the usages of social life, have their lower
extremities permanently invalided, and,
so to say. carefully swathed and put
away in rigid cases. AS regards the
poorer classes of children there can be
no sort of doubt i'm the mind of any one
that it is incomparably better that they
should 60 barefoOted than wear boots
that let in the wet and stockings that
are nearly always damp and foul.
Notwithstanding the papal prohibi-
ton of cremation this method of dis.
posing of the dead continues to gain
ground in Europe. by the end of 1886,
perhaps sooner, the Parisians will be
able to burn their dead in four crema-
tory furnaces which have just been
finished at Pere Ia Chaise. The price
charged for the burning of corpse will
be Is francs-or say $3. The furnaces
were constructed OH plans by NM.
Barrett and Formice, according to the
Corini system in use in Rome and
Milan. 1t was found that the heat of
the Sicmens furnaces was too intense.
Instead of reducing the corpse to ashes
it subjected it To a kind of vitriication.
The cost, too, would be 200 francs, in
stead of ID francs, to cremate with a
Siemens furnace. Sculptors, gold
smiths, and bronZe-casters are already
busy designing urns. of which an assert
ment in marble. bronze, gold, silver,
zinc, and lead will be kept at an office
the crematory. The relatives of the
in cremated dead can buy these vessels
and cause them To be removed to family
vaults. or to building which the city
of Paris is to erect