The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-09-15
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

The verdict of appointed judges in
England is that British grown tobacco
c'n not be made to pay.
-Oxalate OF cerium, recognized
palliative for nausea, is said to be help
full in cases Of seasickness, when taken
in doses Of ten to twenty grains every
two or three hours.
An idea has been developed in
Germany in the shape Of the manufact-
ure of mortar by machinery in large
quantities, to be delivered to contract
Ors or individuals as required for use.
About 100000 barrels were disposed
of in Berlin on this plan alone last
year.
Prison doctor (to visitors a
rule, coarse, brutal people are long
lived. Now see that prisoner there.
He is good for forty years yet. Let us
speak to him. My man, don't you come
of long-lived family?" Cant say
that do" How old was your father
when he died?'' "Thirty-fve." What
caused his death?" "a rope. "-Ljn-
coin Journal.
The reported discovery of the
"elixir of lifen in baths of acetic acid,
applied daily, has elected some inter-
esting scientific comments, These
demonstrate the biological impossi-
bility of living forever. and show that
Scottish physicians have used acetic
acid since 1850 for dissolving away
dead tissues from diseased Joints, etc,
and have thus effected some remar6a-
BILE cures.
For cemepting minerals, etc, Prof.
Whitfield recommends compound in
suitable proportions of starch, white
sugar, gum arabic, and water, the gum
being dissolved the sugar added, and
the mixture boiled until the starch is
cooked. After this, the substance is
dried into sheets by spreading it out on
any suitable surface and re-dissolving
it when required for use. 1t has the
property of being very adhesive.
"A New Hampshire shoe-peg manu-
featuring firm that produces 10000
bushels annually uses second-growth
birch, which is considered a quick
growing timber. A shoe-peg goes
through eighteen different hands or
processes before it reaches the market
and is placed on sale, and seventy-fve
per cent of cost is for labor. The shoe
peg industry is growing one.
The Mechanical Ne1OS says that the
proposed substitution of India rubber
for metal in the manufacture of horse
shoes is based upon various supposed
advantages, one of these being that the
former enables a horse to go easily
over all kinds of roads and rough or
slippery ground without slipping,
The contrivance brought forward for
this purpose is such as to obviate in
one instance the necessity of using an
iron shoe which can be moved momen-
tarily when the horse is not travelling,
and can also be used when the horse is
shod with an iron shoe.
More mistakes have been mado in
this matter of the treatment of disease
by change of climate than in many
others of the multifarious conditions
for which a physician is consulted.
And statistics, arrays of barometric
readings, lines of humidity, compare
tive prevalence of winds, all go for little
when once poor sick wanderer gets
/ 1000 miles away from home, and longs
for familiar faces and surroundings.
Then, to counterbalance nostalgia, to
make up for what has been abandoned,
one needs that health should rapidly
return, or Inconsistencies will do more
harm than change can do good. WILL
lam f. Hutchinson. ~ D.