Wichita eagle., 1888-06-24
SCIENTIFIC soUIBS.

Lightning can be seen by reflection a dis
lance of 200 miles.
During the last fifty years the climate has
SO changed that man can live at an altitude
of tenth of mile higher than before.
According to Pasteur and Chamberlain,
typhoid bacillus is n ninety-nine cases out
of a hundred communicated through drink
ing water.
What may be Of great value in ship build
ing and watch making is the discovery that
steel mixed with "a per cent. Of manganese
becomes non-megnetic.
4 Frenchman claims to have invented
thermometer so sensitive that its index
needle will defect two inches upon the en-
trance of a person into the room where it
has been placed
Ii has been stated that railway trains in
England are now driven at an average speed
IA per cent. higher than it was twenty years
ago, with scarcely moro than half the guam
tity Of coal
A workman in the Carson mint hes discov-
cred that drill points, heated to cherry red
and tempered by being driven into bar of
lead, will bore through the hardest steel or
plate glass without perceptibly bunting.
According to Chicago philosopher flies
are the reviviffed souls Of blossoms which fall
to the ground, decay and come forth flies.
There is no such poetry about the origin Of
the flea, for MS mother is sawdust, mainly
fine sawGust.
Sulfonal is the name Of new hypnotic
used to produce sleep. The average dose in
the beginning is fifteen grains, which may be
] ~ INN cod 4 i--iC If
promises to be especially useful in the treat
ment Of mental disorders
Dr. w A McCorn, OF the New York City
Asylum for the Insane has found hycscy-
mine, simultaneously administered, a very
useful remedy in quieting mania, and at
tended with less unpleasant symptoms than
are choral or the bromides.
Electricity is to be enlisted in the investi-
CATION Of the purity of water. The volta
meter fails to show any current passing
through chemically pure water. As salinD
or acid contamination increases the con-
ductivity of the medium grows greater.
The discovery of electric welding has sug-
gested the welding together of ends of rails
SO as to make continuous rails of LOCO to
$500 feet in length. The device would save
in wear and tear, but would necessitate
special joint to provide for the gap of six or
or seven inches which would occur between
rails of this length under therarges OF North
American temperature.
The San Francisco Medical Journal says it
IS stated that oil of bay is used in Switzerland
by butchers to keep their shops free from
flies, and that after a coat of the oil has been
applied 10 the walls none of these trouble
some pests venture to put in TN appearance
This remedy has also been tried and found
e4iectual II the south Of France Ia preserving
gilt frames, chandeliers, etc, from becoming
soiled II is remarked that flies soon avoid
the rooms where this application has been
employed
In The London Standard is an account OF
a German doctors Investigations as to the
size Of mems and wOmenS hearts. The mas
cuiine heart weighs more and is larger than
that possessed by the fair sex A heart, it
would appear, grows most quickly during the
first and second years of life, and between
the second and seventh years it doubles in
size. Until the fif5ieth birthday the heart
still grows a little. In childhood the male
and female heart are the same size; but after
manhood the masculine heart develops much
more than the female, and ends by being TWO
square inches larger than the latter.