The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-02-17
CURIOUS, USEFUL AND SCIEN-
TIFIC.

4 fOurteen-pound nugget of gold has been
found in Siberia.
Since 1913 as a statistician learns, wars
among civilized nations have cost the lives
of $4,000 men.
In a cemetery in Ohio there is a tombstone
with the following inscription: 'Christiana
Haag died Feb. 81, 1863"
The Hamilton, Can, Spectator saws that
on one OF the very cold but sunny days COM
mon in that locality difference of SO exists
between the sunny and shady side of the
street.
Wild dogs are doing much damage near
the head of Wind River, Washington Terri
cur and the bulldog, and are very fierce,
powerful and intelligent. Their last exploit
was to chase man and his team three miles.
They have increased largely in numbers in
two years.
photograph OF the American breech-
loading rifle gun which has successfully
passed the ordeal at Sandy Hook represents
it as looking like an immense champagne
bottle. 1T makes a louder pop, however"
says the Boston Transcript, "as with 26j
pounds of powder it sends a projectile
weighing 500 pounds whizzing at the rate of
1910 feet per second.
Another story of feeling in an amputated
limb comes from Bryon, y. y. Four weeks
ago DR.. Townsend amputated Mrs. William
GoOdlif's leg Just below the knee. The leg
was buried, and the patient was getting well
all right, except that corn on her departed
foot panied her excessively. After three
weeks of this kind of suffering, her husband
dug up the buried member and found that
a bandage remained tightly around the toes.
on one of which was the corn. He removed
the bandage, buried the member in an easy
and comfortable position, and since then
Mrs. GoOdlif has had no trouble with that
foot or corn.
Mr. Newman, an English resident at Ant
werp, in order to test the theory of migra-
ton, made two new ponds, and stocked one
with pike and the other with small, fresh
water fish, such dace. roach, barbel, etc.
After two days he had both ponds emptied
when it was found that some of the pike had
travelled by some means or other from their
own pond into that of their neighbors, and
had devoured the greater part OF them. That
these pike should have taken less than two
days to think out their marauding plan and
put it in practice is an additional proof that
the water wolf is at least possessed Of a
prompt and decided character.
The destructiveness Of earthquakes depends
rather upon the suddenness of application
than the amount of motion. In one at Rio
Bomba, II is reported for a fact that man
was hurled across a stream of 100 feet, and
landed on an elevation fifty feet higher than
his original position. 1t is an undeubted
AdCL ludb ODlcCIo dIc lIcquculll luIOMu great
distances. In the Mississippi Valley, during
the earthquakes of 1911 TO 1914, the tops of
trees were twisted and entangled and strong
log cabins were thrown to the ground. Riv-
ers are sometimes checked in their flow, and
in past geological ages some have been COM
pletely turned from their course by earth
quakes.
A writer in the Boston Herald says that,
at the suggestion of Professor J. NJ. Ordway,
a gentleman during the last cold spell took
two pieces of water-pipe which he filled
with water, and exposed TO the weather,
with thermometer at twenty-five degrees.
One o. these he covered with cotton batting,
the glazed kind being best, and the other he
did not protect. At the end of two hours the
water in the unprotected pipe was frozen,
while after an exposure of six hours the wa
ter in the protected pipe was still liquid. He
says batting is easily applied, and should be
put on to the thickness OF from one to three
inches according to exposure. 1t can be held
to the pipe by being wound loosely with
twine, but should not be wound tightly.