The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1886-02-20

| yanadium, white metal discovered ii
1890. is worth $4,000 pound.
Nineteen kinds of metal are produced
which are valued at more than 81, 600 q
pound.
Women are taking prominent part in
astronomical and microscopical work in
Great Britain.
| Surgeon Major Cotter, in India, has
found that painting the tongue with
glyceriae removes the dryness CT the
tongue in enteric fever patients.
The temperature of British water is to
be studied with reference to its influence
on fisheries.
At Alameda, California, recently, the
rapid growth of the eucalyptus tree was
demonstrated by cutting down one
planted twenty-five years ago. 1t was
100 feet in height. and measured feet 6
inches at the butt.
A Wisconsin lumberman has invented
! a sled with holloY shoes that viii! make
ice roads. Steam and hot water are
forced through perforations in the shoes,
so that the snow may be softened. packed
and frozen into cutters that will bear the
runners Of the heavy logging sleighs.
A curious discovery was made recently
when a Lightning rod which had been in
place fifteen years imbedded in soft clay
was removed. There was found attached
to it solid lump Of iron ore weighing 96
pounds, supposed to have been produced
by the conversion Of the clay by the ac-
ton Of electricity.
One Of the most valuable exhibits at
the Hamburg Whale Exhibition was the
Uranium Of narwhal, which was brought
to Hamburg from Greenland in lG4S.
There are, it is said, only dozen such
crania in Europe, and it is certainly the
Oldest. 1t is described as that of fe.
male, but its possession of the tusk is
considered by nsturalsts at variance with
that statement
According to the Bulletin Of the Soci-
ETY. Of Natnralsts of Moscow, the hitber-
to unaccountable destruction of pine for.
ests is caused by the ravages of species
mushroom which takes growth on the |
surface of the wood and afterwards pene.
trates and destroys the trees, Maps are
given in which the path Of the destroy.
ing fungus is traced through the pine
woods OF Russia.
BY March. 1886, in private shipyards
Great Britain is to have constructed for
the navy 9,2sS tons Of armored and un.
armored shipping. There will also be
built by private contract vessels not yet |
ordered to the extent Of 1858 tons.
These will include ironclads, belted |
cruisers, new scouts and torpedo-boats.
These are in addition to the vessels now
building or about to be built in the royal |
dockyards
A medical journal, in an article on
the human body, says: Petrifaction
of the body of a warm.bloode9 animal
has never been known, and it is
quite safe to say, never has taken
place. The condition Of the body which
leads to such misconcepton is not that
of petrifaction, but Of saponifaction. It
is explained that heterogeneous tissues give
of ammonia, and this attacking the fats
OF the body produce adiopocere, hard
form Of soap. A gentleman at the New
Orleans fair saw barrel Of pork labeled,
Found floating in the Mississippi river
in an advanced state Of petrifaction.
Being skeptical as to the capicity of rocks
to float, he Clipped off piece and found
that the hog, like the human being under
like circumstances, had merely turned to