Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-08-02
POPULAR SCIENCE.


A Newcastle (England) rolling-mill
engine weighs 300 tons and runs 10, 500
horse power.
Human life is estimated to have
heightened twenty-five per cent. during
the last half century.
1t is claimed that the use of electricity
in the deep mines of Nevada has in
creased their productiveness twenty-five
per cent.
In some of the boys of Ireland paraffine
oil is found floating on the surface of
ponds. This is sometimes SKINNED off
and refined by poor laborers.
Sir Morell Mackenzie, the famous
English specialist, is strongly opposed to
the use of tobacco and alcohol by people
who use their voices in public.
Those earthquakes about Charlestown,
S. c., heaved a rock out of the bed of
the ocean fifteen miles off the outer bar
which is estimated to cover four acres
Of ground.
It should never be forgotten in scarlet
fever, says the London Hospital, that,
however mild the case, there is always a
liability to dropsy in the latter stages of
the disease.
The Russian Government has offered a
prize of $4,000 for the best inquiry into
the nature and effects of the poison
which develops in cured fish. The COM
petition is open to all.
AS soon as improvements now con-
templated shall have been completed the
plant for furnishing electric light and
power in Bangor, Me-, will be operated
altogether by water power.
In some recent cases of typhoid in
England, which have been traced to i'm
pure milk, it seems that the primary
source of infection was the stagnant
water of the ponds from which the COWS
drank.
The first electric crane ever built in
America has Just been put into mill at
Milwaukee, Wis. 1t weighs ninety tons,
and lifts with ease a weight of twenty
five tons, swinging it to any part of the
factory.
The graphophone is likely to find
novel use in medicine. Every kind of
cough may be recorded, to serve in
teaching students, and for tracing the
progress of the disease by future COM
parsons.
M. Pasteur is threatened with rival.
DR.. Peyrand, a consulting physician at
Vichy, claims to have discovered an
efficient method of treating rabies BY
injecting into rabbits the essence of the
familiar herb called ''tansy," he pro-
duced what he calls hydrophobic intoxi-
cation, or something very similar, and
with virus thus obtained he mingled ten
per cent. of chloral.
An invention has been made which
promises to revolutionize completely the
industry of china decoration. By q
process discovered by Mr.. j.. B. Bon
maud it is possible to obtain in a few
minutes the same artistic effects which
cost the hand-painter on china days Of
labor. Landscapes, groups of figures and
portraits are produced by this means on
vases, plates and plaques in their natural
colors, even to the most delicate shades
An average of five feet of water is esti-
mated to fall annually over the whole
earth, and, assuming that condensation
takes place at an average height of 5000
feet, scientists conclude that the force Of
evaporation to supply such rainfall must
equal the lifting of 322, 900, 900 pounds
of water 5000 feet in every minute, OIL
about three hundred billion horse power
constantly exerted. Of this prodigious
amount Of energy thus created very
small proportion is transferred to the
waters that run back through rivers tt
the sea, and a still smaller fraction il
utilized by man; the remainder is dissi.
pated in space.