Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-01-13

oraer to find means OF counteracting 1t
ravsses, for 1t has active focuses of in
fiction in every part Of the globe.
Seversi OF the French railway comps
MES and oAher public bodies have resolved
to have theif printing done on green in
stead Of white psper. The reason for tn
chSnge ia that they believe the combine
tiol of white paper with black character!
endangers the eyesight Of their WORK PEG
pie Black on green has always beer
recognized as coed combination, anG
rany railway tickets are so printed.
According to the American Druggist CT
excellent substitute for gum arabic is
made as follows: Twenty parts of pow.
dered sugar boiled with seven parts Of
| fresh milk, and this then mixed with fifty
parts Of Sc per cent solution Of silicste
OF sodium, the mixture being then cooled
| to 1922 F. and poured into tin boxes,
where granular masses will gradually
separate which look very much like pieces
Of gum arabic.
In describing 8 new compound engine
Iron says that the steam chest is placed
between the two cylinders, thus pre-
serving the hest of the steam better than
| is done in the steam chests which are
generally placed on the outer sides of the
cylinders. This position also admits OF
more compact arrangement OF valve
gear and the automatic governor, and
allows the fy-wheel Or driving pulley, IS
| the case may be, to be brought up close
to the bearing.
The Sanitary Era cries out against the
| i'burisl reform" that would inclose the
| bodies of the dead in p.pier-mache or
wicker boxes, and expresses amaZement
that physicians and sanitarians should
| support method that simply let's loose
al once into the ground water the cor
| rupti0n that the poorest &C fla would a.
least dole cut slowly, diluting the poison
from hundred fold TO thousand fold as
compared with the "reform" method.
The latest idea In the direction OF wa
terproof foot wear Is shoe made with q
stout calf skin vamp, seamless, underly-
ing which is vamp OF thin rubber, end
between it and the lining, which is Of
stout canvas. The bottom of the shoe
has rubber interlining between the out
er and inner soles, and thus the shoe is
about SIS near waterproof as leather
shoe can be. II is said to wear well and
preserve its waterproof qualities for an
sdehnite period.
An astonishing experiment may be per-
formed with no apparatus out piece Of
string FIVE or six feet long. a persons
hsnds being held over his ears, this string
is passed around his head by another per-
son, who holds both ends In one hand,
and by drawing the fingers or nails of the
other hand over the cord produces upon
the tympsnum Of the subject impressions
of almcst startling intensity. Sharp peals
of thunder, changing into distant and
prolonged rumoling, ere effects thst may
be readily given.
DR.. Seibert. German-Americsn physi-
clan in New York, q competent authority
on the subject, holds that pneumonia is a
house disease and is Infectious, but not
contagious. He ssys: ala the warm air
Ct the house the system is made sensitive
to the cold, but the cold is only the pro-
ducing cause. 1t prepares the coddled
lungs for the pneumonia poison, which
has its real origin in damp and dirty
rooms Or cellars. Vast is the cure
Well, the steps to the cure have unhsppily
advanced but little. But the relief and
tie prevention sressno medicine and
Fplenty CT fresh air.''E