The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1889-04-19

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battle ships from one shore TO the
other. rendering dciensein time OF war
more elective. Looking, therefore, TO
principal pros an cons as stated, the
question is worthy Of serious consider
alton. The canal is the property OF
the Caledonian Railway Company, and
they are taking no action, meantime,
in the matter London Engineering.
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.
"A mile down the water has pres
sure Of ton to the square inch.
Eminent microscopists find that
genuine honey can be readily distin-
guished from manufactured honey by
the microscope. us the former has few
or no sugar crystals.
Our hot-air blast-furnaces date
from an invention OF Nelson in 1928;
and the same principle, when applied
in the regenerative gas-lamp, results
in more heat and light, with economy
OF fuel.
The distribution OF breads after 1t
is baked now costs the average work.
man in the city as much as 1t does to
grow the wheat. mill it, barrel 1t. move
it 1000 miles and convert 1t into bread,
all put together.
Among the curious facts brought
out at the late Congress on tuberculo-
sis was that persons who have had small
pox are peculiarly liable to tuberculo.
sis. nj. Landouzy stated that for this
reasons persons pitted with smallpox
should never be employed around the
tuberculous wards OF hospitals.
M Govi, an Italian savant, has
presented paper 10 the French Acad-
emy Of Sciences, in which he claims
for Calico the distinction of having
discovered the microscope as well as
the telescope. He has found a book
printed in 1910, according to which Gal
ileo had already directedh is tube fitted
with lenses to the observation OF small
near objects.
"A sea-glass consists OF square
pine box about twenty inches in length
pane Of glass about ten by twelve
inches placed in one end, water-tight.
To use 1t. the glass end is thrust into
the water, and the face OF the operator
Is placed to the other. BY this means.
the wave motion Of the water is over
come. and great depth readily seen.
"A London jeweler recommends dia-
mond cutting and polishing as an ex-
cellent employment for women, saying
that he believes any woman or girl
with quick intelligence could learn to
polish a diamond Every fairly in six
months He says the qualities neces-
sary in this art are great honesty,
good education, quick intelligence,
great patience and good eyesight."
The Russian physician and pub
.icist, Portugaloff, declares that strych'
nine in subcutaneous injections is AT
immediate and infallible remedy fol
drunkenness. The craving OF the inc,
briate for drink is changed into posi-
tive aversion in day, and after I
treatment OF eight or ten days the
patientmay be discharged. Even should
the appetite return months afterward
the first attempt to resume drinking
will produce such painful and nauseat
ing sensations that the person will turr
away from the liquor in disgust.
The fact that the elementary sub
stances now number, according Il
chemists, full seventy, shows an in
crease within the last fifty years o
nearly one-fourth in the number known
/ The size OF an atom Of oxygen or nitro
/ gen is said to have diameter OF 0n'
ten-mlllionth part Of centimeter; the!
are supposed to be in state Of con
slant motion, at the rate Of sevent.
miles minute. and, TO make then
visible, the present highest know
magnifying power Of the microscope
would have to be increased nearly
thousand fold.