Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-11-23
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

Electricity is now used to eradicate
dirt.
Glycerine does not agree with a very
dry skin.
It is not yet known why the shell of
the lobster turns red on being boiled.
1t is claimed that cigarmakers and
tobacco shippers are never attacked by
yellow fever or smallpox.
The northern ice barrier is broken up
by the increasing power Of the suns rays
as he travels northward along the clip
tic.
A Vienna theatre has an electric Or
gan, which is placed at the back of the
stage and connected by a cable with a
key board in the orchestra.
Bees become restless and irritable be-
fore a storm, and in eight or nine in
stances within three years their indica-
tions have proven correct when the baro-
meter has failed.
M. Pasteur thinks bi-sulphate of car
bon will become the most efficacious of
all antiseptics, IS it is also the cheapest,
costing but fraction of a penny per
pound in large quantity.
A large meteor passed over Minden,
La, recently, lighting up the sky for
several minutes so brightly that one
could see to read. 1t exploded with
report like that of cannon.
A celebrated physician has described
fever as disease Of the nervous system
chiefly, resulting in increased chemical
change in the bodily tissues, with conse-
quent elevation of temperature.
French physicians are reporting great
success with the prompt internal use of
g
After disinfection Of the intestines, &C
cording to this method, the disease runs
a short course.
There is talk of applying telephones
to the infectious wards of the French
hospitals, so as to enable the sick people
isolated in their contagious sufferings tc
have the comfort of hearing their rela-
tives' voices without any risk of convey
ing infection by an interview.
From the Salt Lake of Utah vast guam
titles of sulphate of soda are secured,
blown on shore at certain temperatures
by the winds, where hundreds of tons
are often piled up in a single night, that
can be utilized in the cheap production
of sal soda and carbonate of soda.
A recent examination has shown that
the teredo has quite destroyed some huge
yellow pine piles put down in Charles
town IS. c. harbor less than two years
ago, and by consequence experts in
marine architecture counsel the Govern
ment to erect all lighthouses in low lati-
tudes upon iron supports instead of tim
Der ones.
A Pittsburgh man has invented a glass
conduit which he thinks solves the
problem of underground electric wires.
Plates of glass are grooved on the upper
surface, and the wires are laid in the
grooves and cemented there with pitch.
Then other plates of glass are laid over
the first, and wires put upon them in the
same way. When all the wires are laid
the whole is Enclosed in wooden box
and Embedded in cement.
According to the statement of oc-
ulists short sightedness is more preva-
lent among the residents of cities than
those of the country. They account for
this defect of the eyes by the fact that
town people have less opportunity and
necessity for looking at objects in the
distance, and their occupations as gen
eral thing do not require the develop
ment of long sightedness. The Germans
as a nation are considered among the
worst for weak eyes.