Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-11-27

A SOCIETY has been started in Lon don to promote the development of the science of mesmerism and of the ap- plication of hypnotism to practical medicine.
 To GIVE an idea of the kind of tele- phone cable which would be required to work under the ocean it has been calcu- lated that the copper core would have to be as large around as a flour barrel, and the insulation the diameter ot hogshead.
 DURING course of experiments made with view to discovering the com parative solubility of different kinds of glass in water plumbiferous flint glass was found to be the least soluble. The relative resistance of glasses was differ ent toward hot and cold water.
 IT seems that as yet no one knows how tho centipede divides work amongst its various members. Nature mentions this as e phenomenon moro puzzling than that of tho gslloping horse. It is proposed to investigate tho matter by means of instantaneous pho- tographs.
 LUMINOUS paint sbsorbs light during the day and gives is forth st night Tho ceiling of an English CAT painted with the composition light, the vehicle as night. England had tho only factory, and charged three dollars 0 pound for the paint, but factory in Triesch, Austria, is selling 1t for fifty cents per pound. It is made Of roa asted oyster shells and sulphur.
 A NEW mode of teaching music has been proposed in Franco, based on tho periodicity of the octave. A radical reform is aimed at, tho system being expounded in series of fundamental propositions, such as, musical effect is quite different from acoustic effect; there can be no physical g=mut, 8 major and minor, but only one, that of the white notes of the piano called major, and so on.
 A FRENCH scientist has discovered 8 new insulating substance. A bi-prod- < uct resulting from tho treatment of asphalt with sulphuric acid, which has hitherto been considered of no valuo, has been found to furnish what, accord ing to La Lumiere Electrique, is an OK cellent insulating material. This sub stance, which resembles ordinary as- phalt, becomes, after exposure to great heat, as hard as ebonito or vulcanite, and possesses high insulating proper ties.
 IN Franco, when a patient is under chloroform, on tho slightest symp- toms appearing of failure of tho heart they turn him nearly upside dowr-that is, with his head downward and his heels in the air. This, they say, always restores him; and such is their faith in the efficacy of this method that the operating tables in tho Paris hospitals are made so that in an instant they can be elevated with one end in the air, Sc as to bring the patient into position re- sembling that of standing on his head.
 SIR EDWIN CHADWICK, in an address on sanitary science, says: ''Physicianz are beginning to declare that large amount of the crime for which punish ment is inflicted is due to insanity, and that insanity is due to low physical con- dition which sanitation by early phy- sical training would remove. There are experiences to show that this is tho fact Dr. Ashe and others cOnvcraant with the lunatic asylum declare that, as a class. 1unatics are of a low physical condition and that low condition is reducible b1 sanitation and early physical training Of so,000 blind persons the late Dr. Rclph declared that tWo-thirds might have been saved by early sanitation"