The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-11-21
POPULAR SCIENCE.

xVIULAH SUA6NVbs
There Is no known antidote for clorats
of potash poisoning.
One Of the latest advances in electrical
illumination is the lighting of the Lon
don omnibuses with electricity.
The British Medical Association has
investigated 1924 cases of diseased lives,
taking them from Is years of age up
ward. =,
A French savant, M. de Bee, says that
the nose is losing its function among
civilized people. When the sense OF
smell vanishes the nose will have to 20
too. '-- &r&
A Buffalo IN. ~ teacher of chemis-
try is reported to have discovered q
method Of refining Ohio petroleum,
which till now has refused to give up its
extra charge of sulphur. !, .
DR.. Isaac OFT has showed by cases Of
disease that there are points in the brain
ON the surface and at the base-whose
function it is to preside over and keep
constant the heat of the body.
A medical writer says that sleeping on
the left side favors bronchitis. and sleep
ing on the right side increases ten
dency to constipation, while sleeping
on the back produces frightful dreams.
Among recent achievements in photo
grapby is q portrait copy taken by the
light of a Cuban fire beetle in thirty Sec
onds and photograph of the aurora
borealis. To obtain the latter had been
declared an utter impossibility.
Mr.. Gladstone, who is one of the best
examples of physical preservation extaut,
eats simple meals, with claret for lunch,
and claret or champagne and always port
for dinner. A formula of his is to chew
every morsel thirty-three times.
1t is found that nearly every kind Of
glass; especially that containing manga
nese, is liable to change of color by
the action of sunlight, but the glass can
be restored to its orig nal color by heat.
Stained glass in windows that has
changed tint through solar action can
thus be restored by heat. :.'a,.....
1t is stated that "a grayish black color
ing may be obtained on copper by plac.
ing the object for treatment, after being
we'll cleansed,, in weak solution OF
-four of sulphur. When a caustic effect
has, after short time, been produced,
the OBJ 'ect is rinsed, slightly heated and
brushed with stiff brush.
Mount Elbriz, in the Caucasus, has
been assembled. The hero of the adven-
ture is Baron Ungern Sternberg. At an
altitude of Is, 200 feet he discovered an
enormous crater. He spent three nights
on the mountain at the successive
heights of 5000, IA, 760 and II, $40 feet.
Breathing was not attended with any
difficulty. .... .@
DR.. Cryer says, in the Philadelphia
Me,licaI Times, that he has, among his
patients, members of the same family,
representing five generations, each lseH'
ing the left lower lateral incisor tooth.
An interesting feature of this rcmarka.
BILE instance of heredity is that one of the
members of the same family has super.
numerary lower incisor. .,--.r@
DR.. Shepherd expresses in the Lancet
the belief that consumption is due to
a constant irritation of the air passages,
and that cold air breathed at night is one
! of the greatest irritants. Those who live
most Of the time in the open air are tho
least likely to suffer from phthisis, be-
cause their lungs are so accustomed to
cold air as not to be irritated by it at
night.
A recent analysis of the potato shows
that the starch in the tuber is chiefly
; formed at a comparatively late period OF
menter found of ash 1913 and of starch
1874. The same variety yielded when
near maturity but 30 of ash and A.4
starch, showing that the proportionate
increase of starch toward the end of the
growing season, was very great. There
IS much less water IN potato tuber to.
ward the end Of its growth than in the
earlier stages. It is from these facts
that new" potatoes are more waxy than
those that are ripe. -