Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-02-01
POPULAR SCIENCE.

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swampy and marshy districts is called
into question.
Twenty-Five years ago there were no
newspapers in Japan. Now there are
more than 1900.
White starch, diluted and mixed with
the color TO be printed, isa new substitute
for china clay IN printed fabrics.
The palmo christie plant is now extern
sively cultivated in South Carolina and
the Sea islands as a substitute for cotton.
The weight of a molecule of camphor
sensible to the smell was computed by
BOrdenaye to weigh ID, 262, ! S4,0 O0th of "a
grain.
Herr StutZer holds that soda alone is as
powerful a solvent of heterogeneous prin-
ciples as when combined with pancreatic
ferment.
Glue is rendered waterproof by first
soaking it in water until it becomes soft
and then melting it with gentle heat in
linseed oil.
Verbeck holds that part Of our globe is
still in molten state, and that the heat OF
the volcanic furnaces is notdue to chemi-
cal action alone.
While drunkenness in England has per-
ceptibly diminished medical men say that
the use OF narcotics and stimulating
drugs has very much increased.
The cost of manufacturing steel has
been so reduced in England by the BESSIE
mer process that steel ships can now be
built at the same price as iron ones.
Referring to the experiment of stlling
troubled waters by pouring oil upon them,
one ship captain says that 8 gallons of oil
will enable ship to safelYrun any sea a
hours.
81. Tourelot finds that the new star
claimed to have been discovered in An
dromeda is a part of the Milky Way, and
thus explode the theory of the birth OF
new stars.
Some idea of the pressure exerted on
the grips of the Brooklyn bridge may be
gained from the knowledge that every
loaded car passing over it weighs about
A 500 pounds.
There has lately arrived in Great
Britain a large consignment of Chinese
and Japanese fish, including the varie-
gated goldfish, the niger goldfish, the
veil or fantail, the fringetail and the
nymphi.
The best fltering agent, according to
the recent experiments OF DR.. Percy
FARMLAND, is spOngy iron. Powdered
coke ranks next, and charcoal, although
excellent ut first, soon becomes worse
than useless.
A new balloon, constructed by the Meu-
don ;erOnaut Will he directed by steam
engine. Electricity will be given up
owing TO its want of power for continuous
action. A velocity OF 6 metres per second
has been obtained.
A manufacturer OF Breslau, Prussia,
is stated TO have built chimney over 30
feet in height entirely Of paper. The
blocks used in its construction we're made
Of compressed paper, jOlnteS with sillici-
Gus cement. The chimney ia said 20 be
very elastic and also fireproOf.
The absorption Of atmospheric oxygen
by coal dust, says NJ. FayOl, usually pro-
duces the rise in temperaturewhich causes
spontaneous combustion. Ignite will
take fire at 300 deg. and anthracite al SO
deg, " bile other varieties Of coal in a
powdered state lgnItes at intermediate
temperatures.
John Lubbock says that ants Of the
same nests. however large it may be,
have means OF recognizing each other
not easily explained. The recognition is
immediate and complete, even after an
absence OF year from the nest. Con-
corning the longevity of ants, be sud
be had kept two queen ants for twelve
years.
A foreigner claims to have discovered a
simple remedy for catarrh by which he
has cured several hundred cases. We
give it for what it IS worth. IL consists in
washing the legs from the knees down
ward at morning and night Ia ice water,
rubbing vigorously with coarse towel;
from two to four applications are su1i-
Gent.
Cracks in floors may he neatly and
permanently tlled by thoroughly soaking
newspapers in paste made Of half pound
OF -four, 3 quarts OF water and half
pound OF alum mixed and boiled The
mixture will be about as thick as putty,
and nay be forced into the crevices with
a case-knife. IL will harden like PAPER
mache.
An Italian ship has been sheathed with
glass plates, cast like iron plates. so as to
nit the bull, TO take the place of copper
sheathings. The joints Of the plates are
made water-tight by the use Of water
proof mastic. The advantages claimed
for glass over copper are it's intensiblity
to oxidation and its exemption from in
crustatiOn.
Mr.. D. G. Doane gives the following
simple experiment as of interest 10
amateurs with the microscopic Upon
a slip Of glass put a drop Of liquid auric
chloride or arRentic nitrate, with bali
grain Of metallic zinc in the auric chlor-
ide, and copper in the silver. group OF
exquisite gold and silver ferns Will grow
beneath the eye"
The cleaning out Of kitchen boilers is
seldom. IL ever, thought OF. All sediment
cocks should be left open ut least once
week for the space OF 70 minutes, 80 as %
clean and wash out all foul sediment. or
tentimes when complaint is made that the
water smells or that IL don't heat proper
~, the real cause will be found TO arise
from this neglect alone.
d A.. Ia. Il
clean the ..rass by warming 10, and dip
ping m water charged with washing soda,
then into clear water 20 remove the
grease. Next dip it In bath OF part by
measure OF sulpburic acid, l.part sal am
moniac. parts nitric acid and parts
water. Dip for moment, then dip in clear
water and dry in hot sawdust.
THERE is very conscientious preacher be-
longing 10 the New York Conference OF the
Methodist Episcopal church. He was a soldier
anu has been granted q pension, but refuses