St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1888-02-04
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

-1tSuS0S arc eu$S&cu u" "AA"e
cheese out Of tomato pulp at Burling-
ton IN. J.) canning Louise.
The waste Stag from the basic con-
verters. especially in those districts
where the ores are of u highly ph"s-
phoretic nature, is being extensively
ground up for manure. and an English
company is doubling its grinding plant
in order to compete with the demand.
-Bostos Budget.
--Schwalbe believes nlalarial fever to
b due to = poison. and not to an
organism. He claims that, by making
animals absorb repeated doses Of sui
phide Of carbon. or oxy-sulphislc OF
carbon dissolved in poppy-oil. he can
induce the alterations in the bloWl and
organs which are present in patients
dead Of malarial fever.
"A full description Of the great
Southern comet Of this year has been
published by DR.. J. n. Thorne. OF the
SouthAmerican observatory Of CordOva.
He says it was i'm effect all tail. being
without nucleus or condensation Of any
sort The tail was more than forty
degrees long. narrow. clearly-tle6ned.
and very graceful in appearance
~ y Ledger.
An industrial: canvass Of ljO Maine
cities and towns BY the LewistOwn
Gazette shows that thus far this year
there have been erected 1000 houses.
Ok .~h<ol hr.,,ns ~,,.l =, .0c,ou nh vchoS
putting t5.0OO.O 900 into new buildings
Of all kinds There are $4,000 persons
engaged in producing over ~. UOO. 600
worth Of go.sls. and already las new
enterprises have been started.
The suggestion that the Chinese
make use Of several plants as ginger
which are not known ss . such by
European botanists. has led to an in
vestigation by Mr.. Charles Fort. OF
Hong Kong. who finds only one sort.
which is the commonly cultivated
species botanically know rs Zingi6er
,1fcinaie. This plant. however. varies
greatly in its quality with the soil upon
which it is grown.-N y Ledger.
"A case of lock-jaw caused by .
wound has been successfully treated by
DR.. Mayer. in Germany. who adminis-
tered fifteen-grain doses of chloral
hydra,c and bromide of potassium al
ternately every hour for fourteen days.
Then he discontinued the chloral
hydrate. but gave the bromide month
longer. at the end Of which the cure
was complete. although the patient
was left very weak.-N 7. Ledger.
MIR. Ernest Hart. Of the Smoke
Abatement Institute. fears that London
WIN always suavr from foss, bcssssss-is
is placed in river valley. Oh clay soil.
and is bor,lcred on the Essex side by
iow-lying lands very impcrfectly
Trained. and on the north side by the
Harrow Weald. The fogs generated.
the results of damp cxhalations, are
greatly aggravated by the parks. most
of which require draining. But If the
smoke is got rid Of the foss will he
much less dense. Boston Budget.
Time for Mariners.-The plan of
signaling accurate time from sea-cOasts
was first adopted by Great Britain
about thirty years ago. That country
now has on its coasts fourteen time
balls and i've other time-signals. and
its colonies and dependencies have
twenty-six time-balls; Germany has
seven time-balls; France. four time-balls
and two other time-signals; Sweden and
! Norway. Austria Hungary. Holland
with Belgium. and the United States
have i've time-balls each; Denmark has
two; Spain and Portugal. ono each;
italy. none.-Arkams0U Trareler.