The Red Cloud chief., 1888-03-30
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

-Pasteur's plan of DISCRIMINATING
rabbits by inocula,ing them with chics-
EN- cholera has beea tried ut Rheims
with success.
1T is stated that scvcra! diamonds
were found in u meteoric stone weigh
ing about four pounds. that fell in krls-
n~olobolsk. Russia. This discovery HIS
set people to examining meteorite, wiki
unusual interest.
The artificial production of chicaen.
il Il great industry in franklin county.
Pennsylvania. Ocer 1oO ;ncuhitorS are
in operation and the production is from
10. OOO. 900 to 12.O0J. OOo chickens Inlu-
ally.
"A noted scientist has shown t. the
OphthalmOlOyical society of Hiclclber.
his second success in grating the ra,-
bits correa into the human eye The
patients visual power with the new
eve is about One-tenth of The normal.
and coarse print may be real
The advisabilitv Of testing Is fogrv
weather signals sudden flashes. such Il.
those Of gunpowdcr. has been
ell to the British lighthouse authorities
bv Lori Rayloigh and Professor Stokes.
who think the flashes might attract A.
tention Where an equal ixed light might
escape notice.
An instrument called the alto
graphometer has Lately been devised.
which geographically records the plan
of the ground over which it is dragged.
It can be carried about on n li:h, w.
hicle. and when in use indicates the To-
biography and differences Of level Of all
places over which it passes.
There are about five hundred diff
kinds of hummins birds. Theses
birds belong exclusively to the conti-
nent of America and its islands. From
America they range north TO the Arctic
and south to Patagonia; and
the level of the sea 70 the hei.h.
Of the Andes.
Among the almost numberless
methods of removin. particles from the
eve. the following is recoanm.nlei rs
an efficient Mean>: Make Il loop by
lOublin. u hor>e-hair. Rii,e the Id Of
the eye i'm which is the foreign particle;
slip the loop Y it. and placing the
lit i'm contact with the eycblll. with
the loop. and the particle will be
lrawn out with it. -Scisntifc Ameri- M.
Tho Polytec mica, Jurna, describes
. new kind of lubricant. One hundred
parts Of mineral oil ami TWENTY-FIVE
parts Of castor oil are mixed thorough
y with sixty To seventy pIrt> IF sui
Dhuric acid. and the whole worked with
or three volumes of water. In ihi,
condition the composition is allowed 10
stand some time. the wa.ory layer is
hen drawn of. and. after remaining
,ndisturbed for severa; days. i; is cire-
n~eutralize'i with soda or potash.
1t is found that living creatures
mp from sea depths of tour
niles or nor suffer greatly from the
conditions Of pressure and 1
emperature. AT those vast depths the {
is tremendous. and the tenn 4
is comparatively Cow. On
'eing brought to the surface. the deep
creatures arc sometimes torn in
by the powerful expansion of
heir organisms OccasiOned BIZ decrease
n pressure. and Sometimes they ae
melt away before the eyes Of
he behOlder."
1t is estimated that in the United
tates alone during tine year 1887 there
'ere manufactured and sold about half
million gallons Of writing ink and
bout four thousand tons IF printing
nk. III course a considerable quantity
I this was exported. and some ink Of
.urOpean manufacture WAS also i'm
orted. But the importation of this
rticle is constantly decreasing As tho
xcellence of the home manufactures
and the market is supplied by
hem at u cheaper rate.
Science has demonstrated that
is contained in nearly every wee
sble and animal product. the constitu-
nj elements of which are known. The
of the different varieties of
agar varies. cane sugar being FIVE
mes swee'er than beet sugar. beet
lSar several times as sweet Is grape
agar. and so on. But nov y sweet,
distance has been discovered in coal
tar which is said to be three hundred
mes sweeter than cane sugar. This
substance is called s~accharinc. and
drop Of it will sweeiea three quarts
I water.