The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1888-02-02

Disease germs present some of the
most formidable microscopical difficult
ties. 1t is not surprising that former
glasses beclouoed with alteration
should fail to detect them. The enor-
nous advances now made in their opti
cal constructions warrant the predic
tion that another ten years will de-
velop still greater powers Of search.
Mr.. J. W. Collins reports in the
Bulletin of the United States Fish
Comm. ssiou the finding of a knife Of
curious workmanship in the thick flesh
Of large cod. The handle Of the
knife il Of brass, curved and tapering
behind, with longitudinal incisiun on
the concave sid +. to receive the edge OF
the blade. The total length of handle
and blade toge her is 81 inches.
The first instance In our history Of
the holding Of a regular meeting of an
IbRiSu oCichtihS s'eic'y III shio
country will occur mex. Fall, when the
council Of the Iron and Steel Institute
of England will meet here. probably
in December. They come upon the
invitation # American iron aud steel
manufacturers. Two hundred and
fifty members, including some Of the
West phalia. Sweden, Italy, and Spain,
have promised to attend the meeting
American Maehinist.
The London Temperance Hospital
has been established fourteen years.
In that time alcoholic stimulants have
been resorted to IN not npre than five
cases, and in these instances the re-
suits have proved no more successful
than where remedies ordinarily used
in the hospital were employed. Up to
the present time over 80. 900 patients
have been under treatment, more than
1900 of whom were at greater or
less degree addicted to drink. Many
Of these, seeing the good effect of the
treatment, have become total abstain
ers. The rate Of mortality has been
only 5.8 per cent. In fatal cases there
were only one-tifth more deaths among
non abstainers than among teetotal-
ars.
A remarkable engine ering feat has
JUS, been carried Out in China IN the
face Of unusual physical obstacles.
cattle of seven strands across the buan
River by Mir: A. de Linde, Danish
evil engineer, aided only by unskilled
Chinese labor. The cable il strung
from two points 4, ,64S feet apart. The
height Of "ne support is AT feet above
the present level Of the river and the
second support 737 feet above 1t. The
The vertex over the water is 78 feet.
The Chinese cable is the longest but
one IN the world. The telegraph air
cable across the kistna has a span of
800 feet; two si.nilar cables across
the Ganges, one 2 900 and the other
1880 feet. A third line sf l, ,l35 feet
crosses the Hoorhly, aud in the
United States there Is one over the
Missouri of 1900 feet.-Indian En-
gineering.
The American society for psychical
research evidently fnd difficulty IN
securing haunted honses to be sub
mltted to searching investigations.
Professor Royce, who is the chairman
of the committee on apparitions and
haunted houses, jocularly referred to
this difficulty in his report at the re-
cent meeting of the society in Boston.
As Professor Royce said, the name
suggesting AS il does that the time of
the committee is mainly spent in visit
ing hSuuted houses and ghost ridden
graveyards, does not describe its ,tual
office. The committee has o'ten ex
pressed its willingness to visit haunted
houses or to pass the night lii any
promising place for the sake of seeing,
explaining, or Of converting from the
error OF It's way any genuine ghost IN
the city or in the neighborhood of
Boston, ,-Sciouce.
A new method of determining the
amoun: of fusel oil in spirituous liz quors
by counting the drops from an instru
ment named stalagmometer, has
been lately brought befole the Berlin
Chemical Society by Herr Traube,
who had previously worked out such
determinations with u capillarimeter,
but finds the new plan preferable on
some accounts. The instrument is
short bent glass tube bulged at one