Arizona weekly citizen., 1888-07-28
POPULAR SCIENCE.
Notes of the Progress of Inye.tIon and
 Discovery in the Useful Arts.

| Notes Of the Progress of Inveation and Discovery fin the Useful Arts. Ayoung French officer is said to have
 invented a microphore which will re-
 ccrd and announce the approach of a
 body of soldiers and give some idea of their numbers.
 According to s dressmaker who has 6
 record of women's measures for the last
 forty years, the average womsns waist
 has Increased during that time from
 three to six inches.
 Aluminium is coming into use ss @ mate
 rlsl for dental plsies. It is light has
 neither ordOr or tsste. IS not effected by
 food or the secretions of tho mouth, and
 costs about one-sixth as much as sil-
 yer.
 Portable electric lights, arranged to
 hang on the button of ones coat. and
 with parabolio r,hscsCf to ooncen-
 trate :hs light, with sto:aRe batteries
 weighing one and a haR pounds each,
 gre made to ershle persons tO read in
 the cars by night.
 For ,he convenience cf housekespers
 a sad or tiatiron hRs been invented winch
 makes use of the principle of eIpap-
 sion Ot metals Sy heat to ring s small
 bell when the iron IS ho' enough to Iron
 clothes with. A pot that will sound a
 gong when abont to boil over will be
 expected next.
 Hourekeepers who have white marble stoOL ., halls CT walks 10 keep clean can save tune and labor by having them
 washs with mop which has been diped m boi..ng ho. stsr ard soda. A good deal of soda should be put in the water and allowed 10 dissolve. It is lsstoni.h- ingly eEeotive.
 &r. Major, of EIter, England, has in vented n violin bridge ID three sections. The two outer sections ipolose 8 middle section honeycombed by more than one hundered cells. The general lines of the bridge are not departed from, e1- cept that it Is made thicker, and the ir- crease of power and brIllisncy is said to be very great.
 In Russia they are trying to find some way of sohdfyiug petroleum, and Dr. Kaufman claims to have d"ns it by heat ing the oil, and adding to il from to 3 per cent of soap, which dissolves in the oil. Tho liqu d, upon cooling, it is said, becomes like tsllow and is hard to light, slow to burn and without smoke but de Velops much heat. The idea is to make the petrol, I'm available for fuel. Ton can dis'll water by leDgthning tho spoui of your ieaksttle, bending the additional length, Boil your water. fastening down the kettle lid 30 that sll the seam must psss along the spout Let the end of the spout run into & bottle packed ia ice. The steam, meeting the cold bot tie, IS condensed into water. A sIm- pier way IS 10 buy 6 receiver from any dealer in chemists supplies.
 Fire-proof stables are not uncommon in Germany, and are very simply built. | Timbers like railroad tIes are placed from thre3 and ODe-hAlt tO four feet | apart arched corrugated iron put be l tween them and filled in with 8 mixture | of cinders and lime, making it deep | enough to protect the timters. The | trap or door to reach the loft If made of l shee;-irOn, filled ID with the seme oom- pound. This kind of fire -proofing Is vo;y cheap and very effective.
 The trysicle is pronounced by sll the | to be she very best possible | @xerci eior delicate women. One who has | irIei It says: The exercise thoroughly | attributes the blood to every portion | of the system, promotes digestion, the muscles of the limbs. | keeps the feet and clotblng from the I dsmpness and slop of the streets, while | it protects the spinal column m such a that the brain is not exhaust | buG IDvi Rorsted by an exercise that may he coutinusi for hours, let every feeble, nervous woman [. II. and she will soon Ind her limbs rotu Id, cheeks rUddy and step elastic"
 Li has been proposed to do aRay with he nse Ot explosives ID mines where l heir use Is attended with danger, and the newly inve ted cartridge -oDe portion of which IS filled with a 'i.X.u.s Oi finely divided zinc and zine ,4IIe, VI ioh coi'ec;s in the condeusers # 'Ee quo rcIo-j. whd- t-e other part 9 ti',d w.rh dilute sculphusic acid, ic-gI1'Dg t0 the requi ements in this ,lse. shC cs:tridge Is placed in its T. Ja,.ed place. and then, b. suitable me har,s-r ,..ihs 'id is allowed to flow into nu zicc. Hyd.ogen IS then envolved .-i, b. iss ex osusive force, tne rock IS .Suk2u II, without combustion or yio- en' explosion.
 A k l=sisn physician named Portuga- lii ito'Sres that strychnibe is IDfallible ure far drunkenness, administered in T sub uianeOus injections. He asserts asi 'ns sxper.ehce of physicians has n Iwn the cure 10 Oe ss rapid ss certain I Ee effect of ihe strychnine solution IS change the craving for drink into ,ssivs aversion, and thisis effected 2 day. After treatment of eight or an dAys the patient may be dischsrged. he siryehnine Is administered by dis 2 plying one grain ID POO drops of water nd injecting five drops of the solution , very twenty y-tour hours.
 The largest specimen of ( growing [ inc in Great Britain is the Black Ham T urg vine of Kinnell. in Pertshire cot.Gnd. This vine planted some fifty IE years ago. has 6 main stem of % I 'ches in circumference, completely fills glass house 270 feet long and is still I rowing ss rapidly as ever. Its yield s; 'e present year was 2,556 punches, of hlch only Jt }, averaging about two 2. ounds each, were e,ioved to nature.
 subsianiial subsoiI of lesf-mold WAS s sed when the vine was planted but the ., lly exsrE material the soil now receives
 broken bones in hslf-inch pelces. fl his kinnell TIne exceeds in size the mcus Black Hamburg al which sre p bout one hundered and 10 feet Iono .ouzh it's trunk is 3S inches in circum, o' reuce.
 The Lancet says that, while electric S- cen be applied to the human subject
 such wsy as to cause instant and IT 'inless death, 1t IS also possible for s7 C esc;ric shock to cause apparent 'ath without really killing. One of 70 mosl striking examples of catalep,y m our tme; it ssJs, was caused by V! 'hsnina stroke. which is the same as ss e shock; and the subject of the shock ,l -ss9 thoroughly mistaken for one m, Sd 'hat he was laid ont for dead, .1d 1T. s5d the sound of his own pf sirg bell: . De recovered, snd lived many years Bl 'er"ard to recount the strange e1pe- nee, In experience on the lover a.i- 'Is it has also been observed that A 1ek' sufficient 10 produce such com sI ,'a prosiration As feemed fatal was sr 70 :,