Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-24

for microphones, which is sufficient
hard to scratch glass and
extremely homogeneous. It Ii
moreover, uniniuenced by the state c
the atmosphere. This carbon is said I
De much superior to that now employs
In the Blake telephone, and to be pRrticu
lArly suited for long distance telephony
Russian observations have shown tbs
teeth decay In quite regular order, tn
lower third molsr being the first attacked
hen the upper then the lower fourtl
molAr, and so CD, the lower incisors snt
canine teeth being the last effected. Up
per teeth, as rule, are more durable thai
lower, right than left, those Of dark per
sens than those Of blondes, those of shor
persons than those of tall.
Toe bacillus of wboopiug cough Is the
latest arrival. II differs from other b6;
teris, but is somewhat like Briedlander'!
p eumonia bacillus. DR.. Afsnsieff, the
discoverer, detected the bacillus in the
sDutum OF his own aud other children
That was stained with nsthyl violet md
the bscihi were detected in the pus c1r-
puscles with a magnifYiug power of 700
1000 on liz oil immersion objective.
Oxygen was discovered by Priestly, Of
! England, and Scneele, Of Sweden, inde-
pe1deutly, in l774. Oxygen gas was
liq1efi by M. Rsoni Pictet, OF
GeDevt, on December ~, 1887, and
soon after by Cailletes OF Paris. The gas
became liquid under pressure of 800 at
m0spheres, cquali to 1890 pounds TO the
| square inch at tbs temperature of CSC be-
low zsro of the Centigrsde Thermometer,
or So of Fahrenheit.
Glass blowing is an art nearly 1000
years old, perhaps older; yet there has
never been any cevice discovered to take
the place of the human lungs in the bow
log B,r,Ies, now yer, are blown with :
mod ard mechanical bellows.
An English physician, who has invesd-
gsted tns characteristics and surround
ings Of csntera:iAnF, ssys he found thst
the average qualities were good family
history, q well made frame, Of average
stN' ure, spare rather than stout, robust,
wi good health, appetite and digestion,
capable OF exertion, good sleepeTs, OF
placid temperament snd good intelligence,
with little need for and little consumption
of alcohol and animal food.
Some investigations made by Gsrmsn
chemists In regard to the mi urY 10 fsh by
sewage and waste waters show that
chloride Of lime, in the proportion Of 0 o.
to 0 0e5 per cent. has al immediate
deadly action upon tGncb, while trout a. d
| salmon perish in the presence OF 0 COOS
per cent. Ct chlorine. Sulphurus acLd
has the same action as chloride, and is
still more hurtful II another acid be SIM
ultsneously present; supplies are harm
less
Rev. Father Donahue Of Charleston,
H., has discovered a new explosive,
which he calls latofer quate. In ef-
feet 1. resembles the Russian lect-
over, the most elective explosive
known TO science. He clsims that, II
anything, 1t is superior and more deadly.
II is put up in fusea, and is made from
pine gum. He claims thEt with IL gun
powder can be msde much more chesply,
and that the new compound VIII displace
guupowder in time.
Telegraph and telephone wires on
house-tops sometimes cause dtssgreeabls
humming, and 1t may be useful TO kno =
that the noise can be easily and simply
stopped By short length Of India rubbar
tubing fitted on the wire at Its attach
ment. The plsn was suggested by Ser
gespt-MSior Buck, r. E., and intrOd need
on the southern postal telegraph district.
According to Mr. John ShSkspeSr loose
yarns may be used in place Of the rubber
tubing with success.
The turbine water.whsel connected
with the mammoth srtesiAn we'll IN the
rear of the Pynce de Leon Hotel, st
Augustine, Fla was put In operation on
January Z. The trial resulted very sstis
fActorily, says the Jacksonville News
Herald, the great wheel having made $50
revolutions per miDuie and successfully
demonstrates that the power Afforded Of
artesian wells can be practically utilized.
The wheel will De used for running the
dYnamos and for other purposes about
the hotel.
Ina lecture lately delivered by Sir
Douglas Gallon st the Parkes' Museum,
he drew attention to the increase every
year Of fog and smoke in London, and 10
the possibility Of their abatement. DR..
Russell's experiments, carried out at St.
RartholomeW's hospital, for the meteo-
Biological council, allowed that the city
rain contained twice as much impurity
IS that collected in the suburbs
that is to say, II the city rain
we're diluted with nesrly an equal
bulk Of water we should have the rain of
the suburbs. He referred TO the expert
ments OF Professor Lodge with bell i,r
alled with smoke, which is quickly De.
posted by discharge of electricity, and
argued thst by disturbing the electrical
condition of the air by kites or balloons
rsin may be caused, and by this means
the fog dislodged. Failing this, nothing
remains but to use gas instead Of open
stoves, but this method at present costs
about four times as much as coal.-[Sa'