Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-21
POPULAR SCIENCE.

tefesLlnR SupIoCA5'
Bessemer's steel patents haysfbroughta
MIN SS5, 3S5, 900 in royalties. 9
An estimate places the nBSnber Of pes
sons supported py all forms OF emplg-
ment furnished by electricity st .ooo.sSo'
Il hiss been decided that no theater In |
Mndrid will be allowed to open its doors |
uoxt W n.er unless i sn4u De lighted ny |
electricity.
DR.. Stephen MAcKer zie, lecturer
medicine at the London hospital, recon
mends IudIan hemp in doses of e-ha!i
grain night and N Jrning IS remedy Tor
persistent headache.
The luminosity OF phosphorus ID I'M
paired BY dense and increased oy rarl'
| fed atmosphere. At "a pee OF sixty
pounds 20 the square inca, or Jour Stnos-
| oheres, phosph Jrus is n1n-!umlaous.
According to Munaall's dictionary Of
statistics the average age Of hll the pso9ie
living In France is tntrEy-S~o years, E"o
months and twelve days. Ia the United
States the average is only tIenty-iouF
wears, ten months aGd twenty-fou5 days.
| Sheet-s.etl is now copper-plAted on
0cth sides by electro deposition and USED
as sheer-sopper. The SHEET is dscsroon-
d steel, and one OF the copper aides Is
unned. Cne new msts1ial is man MAC
tured At PIIsbuTg, Pa.
Glsss hlowicg is 90 art nesJly 1900
years old, perhaps cider; yet there mss
never baen any device discovered to take
the place OF the human !1cgs in tie 0 o@-
Jag Bottles, 5OHsVeT, are olo"E Wlsa
n.old and meChsDiCa! bellows.
Bulk 1inGows tnat Ire cased az from
ne main sore msy b3 kept free from
stesm aud frost by small door or pane
Of glass lRat will swing open near the
top of the window, so rs to let hot GIT
aenr the top escape, sud the cold air
fcom on. doors viii 80 ia and keep the
81: IS clean.
The electric motor railway st Ssu
Diego, Cal, was recently tried and
worked satisfactorily. The grace Is 81
per cent. The motor, crowded with
people, moved up the grade, stopping o.
the steepest portion and q ain starting
with esse and running all day without !
hitch. The line Is four miles long
Al new organ, called An orgue cleo
trique, has been placed IN the c1uIc1 Of
S ,inte Clotilde in the F4ubourg Saint
, Germsin. 1t is the first instrument Of
tire kind that has appeared in q Paris
1
hind the high altar, @hence the wires or
!. connected with the ke, bOzds sad the or
gan pipes.
The value OF condiments In the prep
arstion of food is being DISCUSSED. An.
thorities that may be considered reliable
assert that red pepper aud salt are spec.
? u IL valuable as aide to appetite and di-
gestion. Vafious herbs and spices are
| bo r1s1H A. noaH
? in salads promote digestion and the as
similation Of food.
Extended observations st Paris and al
}. Munich indicate that the sanitary condi-
non Of a locality depends on The amount
OF Wster contained ii the ground. The
years in which there has been large
q1antlty OF ground-water present nave In
0 va1iabiy been me heslthiest, while those
I Ia which there has been 3 smaller quAn
! ii have invariably been the unhealIh'
y let,
Belts conveying power are very apt tC
slip on pull -yF, but + heH pulley has beer
: devised TO prevent this. The pulley !.
vered with perforated sheet-iron one
sixteenth OF al inch th:ck, which IS riv
=. eted 10 the pulley. The tension on th'
b 1t causes ii to slightly grip the holes
buu5 oiip-lluS Az IAbCNT ~ siAO ~ AHS
same time the pulle? is ct enlightened.
2 TIE apparent paradox that tee mos
II transparent water is a. the same um'
: perfectly opaque from cer'ain poiat o
8 view is shown By a simple experiment
: Partly Ill . glass z bler Tisa clear wste
aud mold It q little above the level Of tn
E We and distant foot or more. No ob
: CT can be seen when held just over tn
O surface Of the water, but the ws.er sur
D face appears Ike FURNISHED mirror.
Messrs. Woodhouse aud Rawson h&v
: l., tely tfoduced rev form OF carbon
: for micropEoues, which is sufficiently
nsrd to scratch glass and !
xrremely homogeneous. II is
< moreover, unir faenced by the slate q
:, the atmosphere. This carbon is said L
= De muco superior to that now employee
" in the Blake telephone, end TO be particu
larry suited for long distance telephony
Rlssi4n observations have shown ths
TEEN decay ia quite regular order, IN
lower laird mol2I osing the q st sttsckeG
:. Iethen ting upper tEen tae lower fourt
I'm lar, ahd so or, the lower incisors an
oi esnils. kEeth being the last 8 f cted. Up
lie per teEfh, as arule, are more durable tns
= Flo er, right than left, thos= OF dark pei
son. than those of blondes, those of shol
. ersons than those Of tall.
We Toe bacillus Of Wnoopiog cough is Il
r lstest arrival. IL diff :rs fom other bs
IN teris, bu5 Is somewhat Ike BeiedIander
er pneumonia bacillus. Dr.. Afansief, Il
discoverer, detected the bacillus in u