The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-08-21
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

A great quantity OF copper ls now an-
sorbed in Chinese arsenals.
The blaclt spot just discovered on the
sun is "a, 900 miles wide.
Out of thousand people bitten by rat
tlcsnakes not dozen recover.
The members of the London Ornitho-
logical Society are greatly excited over
the discovery of a new bird by one Of
their numbers.
The petroleum pipe line in the Cau
casus is just about to surmount the Suram
Pass. It will reach height Of 5000
feet above the sea.
The quickest way to dcmagnetize a
watch is to place it for a few seconds in
the solenoid of an alternating current and
remove it slowly while the current is
flowing.
For railroad ties in wet or swampy
land, for shingles, for water pipes, for
tanks, cisterns, hogsheads, etc, the
cypress is prime favorite and in general
use throughout the world.
Any fleshy person can reduce his or her
weight from fifteen to thirty pounds in
lUItt luOulliS ny dlSltiuill2 llOAh NiAN AoN
of liquids of all kinds at meals and for
an hour before and after eating.
A German scientist declares that IN
epg contains as much nourishment as a
pound and quarter of grapes, pound
and a quarter of russell apples, two
pounds of gooseberrics and four pounds of
pears.
The Vermont Microscopical Associa
ton has Just announced that prize of
| $3.50, given by the Wells & Richardson
Co., the well known chemists, will be
paid to the first discovvrer of a new dis
ease germ.
The cypress has been found especially
serviceable in decoration and wherever n
wood is needed that will bear long ex-
posure to water. Oiled or polished, it
has become favorite for the inside deco
| ration of the finest houses in New York.
The thousands of tons of cnlm which
has been accumulating at the Pennsylva-
MIA coal mines is now being rapidly con-
sumed by the steel mills, electric light,
and other works. Railroad companies
also use large quantities in compressed
state on locomotives.
NJ. Sopinard, the great French
anthropologist, has been led by the shape
of the leg bones of the "men of Spy" to
the conclusion that these remote ancestors
of the human race had their lower ex-
tremities half bent, like those anthro-
phoid apes that inhabit trees.
NJ. Bert, French scientist, recently
sewed the top of rats tail into its back,
and it, the tail, Immediately took root in
| its new position. Then he cut the loop
thus formed by the tail, and the rat had
two tails. He had found, however, that
as rule, the new tail has no sensation.
Recent experiments at the ear hospital
in London indicate that stammering is
not nervous defect only. In operations
for deafness in several cases the patients
were cured of stammering also, and the
result is the opinion that stammering
comes from some defect in the hearing.
Twenty-eight iron girders, said to be
the largest ever used, will form a portion
of the new American Museum of Natural
History in New York city Each girdel
measures about sixty-two feet in length
and weighs 10000 pounds. Great diff
Guilty was found in their transportation
from the river front to the site of the
building.
The consumption of African teak wood
in the East has largely increased within
the past few years. Wherever a surface
of iron or steel comes in direct contact
with one of the wood, this material is in
valuable. 1t contains an oil which pre-
vents rusting. 1t is easily worked, but
wears tools away rapidly on account OF
the quantity of sileX.