The Savannah tribune. [volume] (Savannah [Ga.]) 1876-1960, 1888-03-31
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.

Electrical moters are to be introduced
b the underground railways in London.
IA paste of chloride of lime and water
eell rubbed in will take ink stains from
liver or plated ware. Wash and wipe
usual.
The pendulum governor for steam ana
as engines has appeared in this country.
has only one ball, is not rotary, and
Onsumcs no power in dtiving.
q a hitherto uncharted island, two
piles long, is reported to exist in lati-
nde deg. Is min. south, longitude
30 deg. 80 min. east.
Portions OF the Andes seem to be sink
he, the altitude of Quito having dimin-
phed &c feet ia 1872 years, and that of
nOther peak 21s feet. A crater has
unk 425 feet in % years.
The telephonograph consists of an APP
aratus for recording in legible charac-
ers articulated and musical sounds. 1t
as flexible diaphragm to be vibrated
y the impact of sound waves and to
ibrate an ink-discharging pen, which
parks upon paper ribbon.
It has been found that old crowbars
made of the best Swedish iron and used
" the early settlers of New England,
lave become so rotten that they could
ot be welded together when broken,
nd had an offensive smell when the
Yielding heat was applied.
At recent meeting of learned men
b Berlin it was said as fact that when
bee has filled his cell with honey and
las completed the lid he adds a drop of
ormic acid which he gets from the
olson bagconnocted with the sting.
3 do this he perforates the lid with the
ting. This acid preserves the honey.
A writer in Science comes to the con-
fusion that, as result of his investiga-
ions, cit seems idle to discuss further
he influence of forests upon rainfall
rom the economic point of view, as it
Is evidently too slight to be of the least
practical Importance. Man has not yet
nvented method of controlling rain
FALL"
A veteran of tftS late war, who re-
ides at Croydon, N. H., claims to have
Invented a new engine of war, which he
calls Thine Torpedo" It has no
lockwork and no chemicals, but by a
#ubtle combination of forces known to
Every schoolboy the charge explodes at
hny given time, varying from two min
ites to two weeks.
The statement has recently been
made by practical iron worker of fifty
gears' experience, that not only does the
metal rot from age but that continual
arring has the effect to weaken the
ensile strength, an illustration of IA
niliar kind in this line being afforded
by the step of a carriage which, when
hew, may be bent back and forth with
put breaking, but after few years SER
vice will certainly break no matter how
well preserved.
Professor Morgan caught scorpion
#aAd pierced it in three places with its
own sting on which in each case there
was a drop of poison, but the creature
zremained alive and active. But these
Nand subsequent experiments led him to
believe that the poison has some effect,
causing sluggishnoss and torpor for a
while. Hc also agrees with Professor
Bourne, that it is possible for scor-
kpion to sting itself in vulnerable place.
Messrs. c. H. Hartwig and G. Hunter
have recently succeeded in reaching the
crest OF the Owen Stanley Range, in
British New Guinea. They had some
difficulty to overcome the opposition of
the tribe which guards the great noun
tain, Paramagero, which the natives De-
3lieve to be the abode of the spirits of
the departed. Eventually they we've
placated, and two hundred of the tribe
Followed the expedition in the ascent.
A method, claimed to support electric
.wires above ground in such a way as to
practically evado the dangers and diff
fcutios of the old pole system, as well
as tho expense and Inconvenience that