Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-03-14
SCIENTIFIC GLEANINGS.

DR.. Galeazowski, the great oculist of
Paris, has treated over 10000 patients.
He averages 10000 new ones each year.
! An excellent cement for fastening the
tops of kerosene lambs is made with
three parts of resin, one of caustic soda
and five parts of water.
Paraldehyde is new sleep producer.
It's action is quicker than chIoral, it is as
safe as the bromides, and is not injurious
| except when used to excess.
When frost is threatened in the cof-.
| fee districts of Guatemala the farmers
| build in furnaces provided for the pur-
pose, fires of tar, pitch or other smoking
substances, which keep the frost away.
Mr.. Kenna gives one a good idea of
the enormous size of Siberia by stating
that its territory would contain the
United States, including Alaska, with all
| of the states of Europe except Russia,
| and there would still be 100000 square
miles to spare.
Photoxyline, which is used in photo
graphy, has been substituted for COLO
dion In surgical operations with good eff
feet. 1t adheres more closely to the skin
than collodion, is absolutely lmpermea-
bic, and is Lot deteriorated by washing
or by contact with other fluids
The extensive establishment of James
Whyte d Brothers, manufacturing chem
lists, at No. 14I2-14 Walnut street, Phila-
delphia, was burned Sunday. Loss, be-
tween 100000 and 100000; nearly COW
cred by insurance. During the progress
of the fire the central portion of the
double building fell, burying several
tiremen. George Showers was taken out
dead and Abraham Slavery and William
Buzzard I'M ured, the latter quite seriously.
Poison for some animals is food for
others. Hogs can eat henbane or hyocy-
anus, which is fatal to dogs and most
other animals. Dogs and horses are not
| easily poisoned with arsenic. Goats eat
water hemlock with impunity; pheassnts,
| stramonium; rabbits, belladonna; and
morphia is said to be innocuous 20 pigeons
| There is some truth in the old saying that
"what Is one mans meat is another mans
| poison" This is due to habits and lido
| syncrasies.
telephone transmitter by Mr.. John
M. Graham, of Pittsburg, Pa, says Sci
entific American, consists of two pairs of
contact springs arranged to press oppo-
site ends of electrodes carried by springs
bearing on the diaphragm, one contact
spring of each pair being ooun ected with
one terminal of the induction coil, the
| electrodes operated by by the diaphragm
being connected with the terminals of the
local buttery, whereby the current in the
local circuit is reversed during each vi
bration of the diaphragm.
Some experiments have lately been
made at Cape Town in transmitting mes
sages by flashing electric lights upon the
clouds at night. The signals are read
like those of the heliograph, and besides
being available at night the system has
the advantage over the heliograph of not
requiring high stations. The terminals
may be below each others horizon while
the heliograph requires considerable
altitude, strong light and clear air for
operating over long distances. Under
proper atmospheric conditions messages
were transmitted from a vessel forty
miles off shore to land in the expert
ments referred TO-