Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-01-12
POPULAR SCIENCE.

POPULAR SCIENCE.
Various Eewsy Bite OF Interest Put IL
small Form.
Scientific tests in Hungary show tina
corn will produce the largest yield o.
| milk, while sorghum will produce milk
| OF the richest quality.
.Picrate of ammonia is used in treating
malaria at the Punjaub medical stations
with reputed success. Half grain il
the average dose.
An ether-tight joint can be made with
8 screw-cap by rubbing common bal
soap Ia the thread. The ether will not
penetrate through the soap.
Professor Pettenkofer states that in
Munich 100000 marks are annuslly
spent for beer, and that according to in
yestlgations there is an excess of deaths
from heart disease over those in other
cities coincident with the excess of beer
drinking.
The coal output OF the world is 409,.
600, 900 tons, of which the United States
produces LOG, 900, 900, Asia 6, 0O0. 900 and
Africa 200, 900. Europe produces ~ pei
cent. OF all, POS, 100000 tons. The aver
age per head of population is 225 pounds
per year.
Incorporating telephone is exhibited
in Pittsburg. a sensitive plate presses
against the larynx and glands of the neck,
and as the jaws are moved in converse
ton the motion sends the words along
the wire IS distinctly as the telephone
now in use.
According to the Electrical Review med
icine may be introduced into the human
system by electricity. The electrodes of
& battery are saturated with the medicine
and applied locally TO the skin. Expert
ments show that there Is an actual absorb.
ton of the medicine into the system.
According to Besnier leprosy is spread
ing rapidly. Since the extension OF the
French colonial possessions soldiers,
sailors, traders ana missionaries have
fallen victims to it In large numbers.
Besnier therefore exhorts physicians in
sill countries to study the fell disease in
order to find means OF countersc ing It's
ravages, for it has active focuses of in
lection in every part Of the globe.
Several CT the French railway comps-
nies and other public bodies have resolved
to have their printing done on green in
stead Of white paper. The reason for the
change is that they believe the combina-
ton of white paper with black characters
endangers the eyesjght of their work peo-
pie Black on green has always been
recognized as good combination, and
Eany railway tickets are so printed.
According TO the American Druggist an
excellent substitute for gum arabic is
made as follows: Twenty parts of pow
dered sugar boiled with seven parts Of
fresh milk, and this then mixed with fifty
parts of SO per cent. solution of silicate
Of sodium, the mixture being then cooled
10 1929 F. and poured into tin boxes,
where granular masses will gradually
separate which look very much like pieces
of gum arabic.
In describing new compound engine
Iron says that the steam chest is placed
between the two cylinders, thus pre-
serving the hest CT the steam better than
IL done in the steam chests which are
generally placed on the outer sides of the
cylinders. This position also admits Of
more compact arrangement Of valve
gear end the automatic governor, and
Allows the fy-wheel or driving pulley, as
to the bearing.
The Sanitary Era cries out against the
"burial reform" that would inclcse the
bodies Of the dead in pap!er, mache or
wicker boxes, and expresses amusement
that physicians and sanitarians should
support method that simply lets loose
at once Into the ground water the cor
rup1ion that the poorest cCffia would Ct
least dole cut slowly, diluting the poison
from a hundred fold to a thousand fold as
compared with the "reform" method.
The latest idea in the direction of Wa
foot Wear is shoe made with d
stout calf skin vsmp, seamless, underly-
ing which is yamp OF thin rubber, and
between 1t snd the lining, which is Of
stout canvas. The bottom Of the shoe
has rubber interlining between the out
er and inner soles, ana thus the shoe is
about as near waterproof as leather
shoe can be. 1t is said to wear well ard
preserve it's waterproof qualities for al
jndeh aite period.
An astonishing experiment may be per-
formed with no apparatus but piece Of
string five or six feet long. A persons
hands being held over his ears, this string
10 PAsGCu oLcu00 LIE uCS0 W nuOsuCl pCl-
son, who holds both ends In one hand,
snd by drawing the fingers or nails of the
other hand over the cord produces upon
the tympsnum Of the subject impressions
Of almost startling intensity. Sharp peals
Of thunder, changing into 8 distant and
prolonged rumoliDg, are effects thst may
be readily given.
DR.. Seibert. Germsn-American physi-
clan in New York, q competent authority
On the subject, holds that pneumonia is
house disease and is infectious, but not
He says: "In the warm air
Of the house the system is made sensitive
to the cold, but the cold is only the pro-
ducing cause. II prepares the coddled
lungs for the pneumonia poison, which
nss its real origin in damp and dirty
rooms or cellars. WHAT is the cure2
Well, the steps to the cure have unhsppily
advanced but little. But the relief and |
he prevention are no medicine and |
plenty Of fresh air."