Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-08-01
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL

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A great quantity of copper IS now alb
sorbed in Chinese arsenals.
The black spot just discovered on the
sun is "a, 600 miles wide.
Out of a thousand people bitten by rat
tIesnakes not dozen recover.
The members of the London 0rnitho-
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 $500
feet above the sea.
The quickest way to demagnetize a
watch is to place it for 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 fayorite and In general
use throughout the world.
Any fleshy person can reduce his or her
weight from fifteen to thirty pounds in
three months by obstaining from the use
of liquids of all kinds at meals and for
an hour before and after eating.
A German scientist declares that an
egg contains as much nourishment as a
pound and quarter of grapes, a pound
and quarter of russet apples, two
pounds of gooseberries and four pounds Of
pears.
The Vermont Microscopical Associa-
ton has just announced that a prize OF
$3.50, given by the Wells & Richardson
Co., the we'll known chemists, will be
paid to the first discoverer of new dis
ease germ.
The cypress has been found especially
serviceable in decoration and wherever
wood is needed that will bear long ex.
posure to water. Oiled or polished, il
has become favorite for the inside deco.
ration of the finest houses in New York.
The thousands of tons of culm 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 a 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" tc
| the conclusion that these remote ancestor
! of the human race had their lower ex'
tremities half bent, like those anthro-
=, phoid apes that inhabit trees.
- NJ. Bert, French scientist, recentl,
!: 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
y as rule, the new tail has no sensation.
Recent experiments at the ear Hospital
= in London indicate that stammering il
u not nervous defect only. In operation
+ for deafness in several cases the patients
IL were cured of stammering also, and thu
result is the opinion that stammerins
comes from some defect in the hearing.
Twenty eight iron girders, said to b.
. the largest ever used, will form'a portion
of the new American Museum of Natura
Ii History in New York city. Each girde
measures about sixty-two feet in length
Of and weighs 40, 900 pounds. Great diff
Guilty was found in their transportation
n from the river front to the site of tn
10 building.
se The consumption of African teak woo'
le in the East has largely increased withil
e. the past few years. Wherever surfac
We of iron or steel comes in direct contac
a with one of the wood, this material is in
ne valuable. 1t contains an oil which pre-
e, vents rusting. It is easily worked, bu
te wears tools away rapidly on account
e. she quantity of silex.