The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-09-20
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

,oOt6VOe ANU JNOOS JHYs
The verdict of appointed Judges in
England is that British grown tobacco
can not be made to pay. +,
-Oxalate of cerium, q recognised
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. ..... j!
Italy is the greatest olive produc-
ing country, 1,250,O acres being de-
voted to that industry. yielding 3O,-
10000 to SO, 900, 900 gallons of oil an
nually. J
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 2,0O0,000 barrels were disposed
of in Berlin on this plan alone last
year.
Prison doctor Ito visitors)-''As 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. Ny man, don't you come
of a long-lived family?' Cant say
that I do" ''How old was your father
when he died?' ''Thirty-fve." what
caused his death?' "A rope. '-L;s-
coin Journal
For cementing 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 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 a growing one.
The reported discovery of the
"elixir of life'' 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 acetio
acid since 1850 for dissolving away
lead tissues from diseased joints, etc.,
and have thus effected some remarka-
bic cures.
The Mechanical Nevs says that the
proposed substitution of India rubber
Tor metal in the manufacture of horse
shoes is based upon various supposed
advantages, one of these being that the
former enables horse to go easily
over all kinds of roads and rough or
slippery ground without slipping.
The continuance brought forward for
his 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 made in
this matter of the treatment of disease
by change of climate than in many
others of the multifarious conditions
for which physician is consulted.
And statistics, arrays of barometric
readings, lines of humidity, compare
tive prevalence of winds, all 60 for little
when once poor sick wanderer gets
1000 miles away from home, and longs
COR 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, NJ. D.