Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-04-02

70 preserve chemical labels from
acids, etc 1t is recommended that after
being attached with Ordinary glue, to
which little bichromste of potash has
been added, and SLOWED to dry thor
oughly, they should be coated with hot
melted, psrsffi le, the supeffuity being
rubbed OF with q warm flannel. -
Some people doubt the poisonous effect
of nutmeg, but several.cases of nutmeg
p Dis oning have been n oticed in the Brit
lsh Medical Journal during The last sum-
mer. Il whole nutmeg was taken In four
Of the cases, and five whole ones in the
remaining cases. In still another case
the use of half nutmeg in q hot drink
was nearly fatal. ii
A physician says it is not at all difficult
to eat quail for 8 number of days in sue
cession. He says that game Of any kind
may be eaten as steady diet just as well
as beef or pork. he cites the fact that
sailors eat salt pork-a pound
a dsy for 1000 days, and what, he adds,
| Is worse than sailors pork? During his
active come ct on Y b the army In the
west, many years ago, he ATE prairie
chicken every day for months, and was
glad to get 1t.
DIR. Crothers. in his Congress psper,
stated that certain diseases seemed to
have a special r:edisposition to develop
into inebriety without say e1citirs
causes. Ia dipto nsnia ard period cal
inebriety q conduit allied to epilepsy
was mentioned. The explosions Ct the
craze for drink were called nerve.
storms. The regularity Of these
periods WAS mentioned. The evidence q
drink cycles were described aud Ia,
| temperance intervals were affirmed to bt
reactions of the drink-cycles and gov
erned by laws and forces unknown. 10
ebriety wss sfirmed to be increasing snC
Incoming more conce,led every year
The coarser features were giving way Il
mania, suicide, etc.-[ Medical record.
The cost OF drilling gas we'll is ususl
" from $500 to $4,000. The method
pursued is the same as for an oil well
The weight OF the drills with the sttschet
"iars"is 5000 to 1000 pounds. These rist
and fall four or Eve feet ana are constant
" rotated SO IS to bring the bit into con
tsct with the entire circumference of tn,
drilling. For depth Of 800 feet the hol
Is bored eight inches in diameter ana 4
cased with 81 piping. Beyond this dept
the hole Is continued with diameter O
six inches until gas shall be reached o
the we'll abandoned. A casting Of k-incl
piping ia used for this lower portion
Uader ordinary circumstances about fft
days are required for the drilling.
WI. Bssls and c. E. st. John pre-
sented, In the American Association,
studv Of the hairs in 81 phium perfoliatur
and D ,psocus lscinatus in relation to In
3 sects. The upper surface Of the leaf il
these plants, near the apex, Is thickly Sc
: with small hairs, all Of which point to war
D the tip. Slmi'sr hairs were fund al
4 along the mid veins, side veins and vein
E llets OF the upper eurfaces Of the LEST. tn,
: cavi les formed BY the perfoliate leave
| lsre very small and hold but little water
= They are very fall sitter any RAIN or hesv
Z dew. These cups do not seem to serv
. any purpose as insect-catchers. as only
! few irsects were caught during tw
. weeks In which the plants were WEIGHED
: sud they could sfiord hut little NUTRITION
} II seems more probable to the suh =
that the object OF the cups with thei
water is TO protect the plant from crawl
ing insects, and this Is done most eject
ually.
How pictures are woven In cloth !
thus described by mauufsctureri ct
obtain the deepest shadows, we SHOULD
! bring the black weft to the So face, an
! II It had 70 cover 3 lsrge area, or sue
that il allowed to h,as for considerable
. distance the wers would be too loose Of
:ss t.Se, VIC s1cIli Si.a !. i satin c1des