Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-10-25
SCIENTIFIC GLEANINGS.

There is no known antidote for chlorate
of potash poisoning.
Tho sand blast is now utilized for clean
ing dingy stone walls of buildings.
Antipyrine in doses of one to three
grains is recommended by Sonnenberger
as q remedy for whcoping cough.
The daily consumption of needles in
this country is said to DO 100000, most
of which come from Redditch. Eng.
land.
1t may be worth knowing that water
in which three or four onions have been
boiled. applied with gliding brush to
the frames of pictures and chimney
glasses will prevent flies from lighting on
them.
One of the English regiments is exper-
lmentiDg With g machine called center
cycle, which has four small wheels a foot
IN diameter and one large one in the CEN
ter. It is said that the invention makes
climbing hill as easy for cycler as roll
ing of log.
The safety insured by interlocking
signal apparatus may be shown by the
fact that about 100000 trains have
passed over the Chatham Square cross
ing Of the New York Elevated railway
with but one collision, which was owing
to an engine driver passing the danger
signal.
DR.. Donald G. Hood has collected
many facts relating to the use of
salioylic acid for rheumatism. OF 72S
patients treated with salioylates 523 were
relieved of their pains within seven DAYS.
xrb Of Al
other methods only lao were relieved
within the same time.
The Erie railway is trying the expert
ment of running trains throagh from
Jersey City to Buffalo lighted by cleo
tricity. The Faure accumulators are
used, and sufficient current is stored to
furnish what light is needed in q round
trip Of eighteen hours.
In France very practical use of photo
graphy has recently been made. Several
persons were imprisoned by the caving
in of a wall. A hole was bored, and down
this tube with a camera was slid. The
photograph showed the faces of some of
the deceased, and demonstrated the use
lessness of efforts at rescue.
CA. PalIard, OF Geneva, Switzerland.
after fourteen years Of experiment., has
determined that the alloy of palladium
is non-magnetizable as used in watches
and is d satisfactory substitute for the
metals commonly used. Only the half
spring and the compensation balance are
made of this metal, and the cost OF the
watch Is not increased.
Railway brain" is term applied by
DR.. Thompson to neurosis of general
arrangement of the nerves produced by a
shock received by the head on railway
car. In particular case described go
wound was received and consciousness
was preserved at the time OF the injury.
Afterward the patient became melan-
cholic and complained oflinsomnia, head
ache, spinal pain, WEAKNESS and failure
Of appetite. A hygenic and palliative
treatment was given.
The arc lamp in the ST. Catharine's
lighthouse, on the Isle OF Wight, is said
TO be the most powerful electric light in
the world, and equal to 10000 candles.
The carbon pencils have a diameter of
2R inches, and the electric arc bridges
space of about d inch between the car
bon joints. The lamp is of the Serrin-
Berjot type, and the dynamos by DeMeri-
tens of Paris, while the engines to drive
them are of the compound type, by Roby
& Co., of Lincoln.
The most blase fish that ever wore
scales aud Stunned baited hook will
draw neat in thrilled wonderment to an
electric light submerged in his native
element, and SO be allured to his fate.
The United States steamer Albatross has
been fitted with electric fishing lights for
the conduit of scientific research, and
preliminary experiments with these
lights have revealed the fact that the
curiosity of fish to Investigate tnis un-
wonted radiance brings them to the light
in shoals.
Scarlet fever is at its minimum from
January to May, and at its maximum in
October and November. Diphthsria is
more evenly distributed through the
year, and is most dangerous little later
than scarlet fever. Measles and whoop
ing cough seem to be somewhat aggra-
waited by cold weather, but are most fatal
in May and June. Hot weather is ad
verse to small pox, and favorable to dis
orders of the bowels, particularly in
children.
Judge Hammond, of Cincinnati, has
peculiar method of reaching his deci-
sions in the cases PREF ented to him in the
LEGAL BLANKS