The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-06-20
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

"A Japanese has discovered q
method of applying nickel plating to
wood
A Kansas paper says that an excel
lent quality of binding Irvine can be
made from the sunaower plant.
In 1888 the United States manu-
featured $4,000, 900 pounds of tobacco,
400, 900 pounds of snuff, 1000, 600, 900
cigars. 1,5OO, 600, 900 cigarettes.
"A Nuremberg manufacturer has in
vented pencils in blue. black and brown
for writing on the human skin. They
are for use in anatomical and clinical
demonstration.
Abroad they have also reached the
conclusion that the constant and una
voidable accumulation of gases and the
attending explosions are the most seri-
Gus questions in connection with plac-
ing wires under ground.
To the perfumes of flowers M. I'm
gerer ascribes the power of protecting
against, and even arresting consump
tion. In the perfume distilling town
of La Grasse lung troubles are but lit
tie known.
-''Sunaower seed is coming to the
fore as an article of commercial value.
AS an admixture to chicken food it's
merits are indisputable. Veterinarians
use it in h medicinal way in the treat
ment of horses. Its growth is considered
Of use in the prevention of malaria, and
the extraction of a valuable oil from it
is looked for result
One of the novelties which an Au-
gusta, Me-, firm is sending out are
electric spectacles. At the end of each
bow is miniature thermo-electric pile,
in which the electricity is generated
by the heat of the brows. The cur
rent passing along the bows and rims,
which are highly magnetized, is said
to be highly beneficial to the eyes
1T is a we'll settled fact that de-
caying organic matter absorbs the ele-
mentary atmospheric nitrogen with
great eagerness. This process of de-
caying is also conducive to the produc-
tion OF a certain kind of bacterium, by
the influence of which this elementary
nitrogen is converted into nitrates,
which process is called nitriication.
DIR. Salisbury found malarial feve,
to be propagated among persons sleep.
ing in a room in the windows of which
had been placed box of earth from
malarial soil. House plants cultivated
in pots flied with malariOus earth are
a constant danger. The germs grow
luxuriantly in the moisture and warn
air of closed rooms.
-Hypnotism has become very con
spicuous in Europe of late. 1t has beer
used in the place of chloroform fo1
some time in surgical operations a
Paris, and when, in a recent murde,
case there. it was charged that tn.
murderer had hypnotized the victim
and forced her to kill herself, publ,
opinion accepted the possibility of tn,
fact in a way quite remarkable. BIOS
ton Journal.
! "A new method for illuminating
from the outside some of the cavities O
the body, such as the nostrils and lar
ynx. is described in the London Lancet
The instrument used for this purpos,
is a well-polished glass rod, to one enc
OF which a small incandescent electri,
glow lamp, like those used for electro
breastpins, is. attached. The light o.
the lamp is reflected equally through
the whole length of the glass rod
When placed against the throat or tn
sclerotic, the interior Of the larynx 0
the eyeball is sufficiently illuminate,
for making an examination. AS III
rod remains cold, it can be employee,
in operative surgery with satisfactor,
| results.