Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-07-06
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

California PARTIES are locating fac
tory for manufacturing soap from clay,
containing soap properties discovered
near Cotton.
The water of a well just dug, near
Lebanon, Mo-, is so strongly magnetic
as to affect iron and steel, if immersed
in it even for minute.
Dr. Liceaga is authorized by the Gov
eminent to establish a station in the City
of Mexico for the treatment of hydro
phobia, according to the Pasteur system.
The hall of the San Andrea Hospital has
been chosen for that purpose.
1t is round that nearly every kind of
glass especially that containing manga
nese, is liable to change of color by
the action of sunlight, bat can be re-
stored to its original color by heat.
Stained glass in windows that has
changed tint through solar action can
thus be restored by heat.
The Paper Zrade Journal considers it
a mistake to put anything on rubber
belts to cause them to adhere to the
pulley. If anything be used printers
ink will do the least harm. Burnt oil
and soap spread upon the belt will get
all the power possible out of it, but the
life of the belt will be very short.
A writer in a medical journal says:
"Beware of too much quinine. 1t will
produce a congestion of the ear and ir-
ritation of the auditory nerve. The
common habit of taking quinine for
neuralgia and other ailments without
consulting a doctor is altogether repre-
hensible, and may lead to very serious
results. Many cases of deafness are
produced by overdoses and long con
tinued use of the drug.
A scientist has discovered a curious
regularity in the geographical distribu-
ton of certain virtues and vices. In
temperance is found north of the forty
eighth parallel; amatory alterations
south of the forty fifth; financial ex-
travagance in large seapOrts; thrift in
pastoral highland regions. Under this
theory the cure of certain faults might be
produced by transportation of offenders
from one climate to another.
Methods and apparatus have been de-
vised to increase the tractive power of
locomotives and other self-propelled rail
vehicles by increasing, electrically, the
fractional adhesion between the driving
wheels and the rails. It is claimed that
the tractive power can thus be nearly
doubled without increasing the weight
of the locomotive, and that sleet and
snow difficulties will be overcome. 1t is
also claimed that the friction thus OBJ
tanned is cheaper than sanding, without
its consequent wear.
Barrels are now being made of hard
and soft wood, each alternate stave being
of the soft variety and slightly thicker
than the hard wood stave The edge of
the slaves are cut square, and, when
placed together to form the barrel, the
outsides are even, and there is E.shaped
crack betW cen each stave from top to
bottom. In this arrangement the Ope-
ration of driving the hoops forces the
edges of the hard slaves into the soft
ones until the cracks are closed, and the
extra thickness of the latter causes it's
inner edges to lap over those of the hard
wood slaves, thus making the joint
doubly secure.
The reports which came, not many
months ago, from Mexico and Brazil,
stating that the yellow fever germ had
been discovered and cultivated, and that
NEGOTIATIONS with it prevented the dis
ease, have Teen investigated for the
United States Government by DR.. Geo
NJ. Sternberg, physician and biologist
of great experience. He has become con-
WINGED that the yellow fever microbe has
not yet been found, and that the inocu-
lations made have really increased the
effects of the disease instead of lessen
ing them. His researches have been
under somewhat unfavorable conditions,
however, and further experiments will
be made.