The Savannah tribune. [volume] (Savannah [Ga.]) 1876-1960, 1888-09-22
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.


by its first ascendant, Count Teleki,
to be higher than the neighboring
mountain, Kilima-N javo, which is rated
az IS, 200 feet high.
Signals flashed from an arc lamp
upon the clouds at the Cape of Good
Hope, Africa, have been seen at dis
tarcs of fifty miles. This method of
signaling may prove useful at sea, espc-
cially for vessels in danger.
A physician recommends that all the
wood used in the interior construction
of houses and ali the plain surfaces of
plaster should be thoroughly oiled or
vanished, so that the power of abb
sorption of foul air and gases should be
destroyed.
DR.. W. H. Gardner, United States
army, reports having treated many cases
of sea sickness with oxalate of cerium,
in ten, fifteen or twenty grain doses,
every two or thrce hours. He believes
that rs per cent. of all cases that occur
will be cured by this remedy.
One of the English regiments is ex.
perimenting with a machine called
centrecyclc, which has four small
wheels foot in diameter, and one large
one in the center. 1t is said that the
invention makes climbing hill as easy
for cycler as rolling off a log.
Quicksand is composed chiefly of
small particles of mica mixed largely
with water. The mica is so smooth
that the fragments slip upon each other
with the greatest facility, SO that any
heavy body which displaces them will
sink and continue to sink until a solid
bottom is reached.
A remedy for tender feet is cold water
(about two quarts), two tablespoonfuls
of ammonia and one tablespoonful of
bay rum. Sit with the feet immersed
for ten miautcs, gently throwing the
water over tho limbs upward to the
knee. Then rub dry with a crash
towel, and all tho tired feeling is gone.
This recipe is good for sponge bath
also.
The very best nourishment for iuva-
lids and children is the juice pressed
from steak or mutton chop thorough
" trimmed and boiled about five min
ntes. The meat for this purpose should
be cut at least three quarters Of an inch
thick. The juice may be extracted
from the meat by lemon queczer or
meat press, which comes for this pur-
pose.
Scarlet fever is specific poison which
emanates from the person of the patient
and can be caused by no other means.
Diphtheria is contagious, but may arise
from fermenting fl til, etc. Typhoid
fever and Asiatic cholera are not di.
recty communicable from person to per-
san, but Sro spread by the dejccta of
their victims, which contamiaato the
water supply.
According to geographical computa-
tioas, the minimum age of tho earth
since tho formations OF the primitive
soils is 81, 900, 900 years, allowing 6,
700, 600 years for the primordial forma-
lions, 6,400. 900 years for the primary
age, 800, 600 years for the secondary
age, 400, 900 years for the tertiary age
aud 100, 600 years since the appearance
of man upon the globe.
Priceite is borate of lime and was
named 30 years ago by Professors Dana
snd Silliman in honor of Professor
Thomas Price of San Franci;co. Borax
is made by boiling it with carbonate OF
soda. A discovery of priccito in large
quantity is just reported from Curry
County Oregon. Deposits of the same
mineral arc found in Turkey and
shipped to London where it sells as
Turkey borato."
Five persons were imprisoned by the
caving in of q wall at a quarry at Chan
celade, near Perigeux, France, recently,
and there were no means at hand to
rescue them. To find out where they
were, shaft - inches in diameter was
bored, down which was sill tube,
near the end of which was a small