The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-05-10
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.


An English inventor offers system
by which coal gas compressed to one
eighth it's natural bulk can be carried
about and utilized as an illuminant when
desired.
1t has been found by scientist that
red sealing-wax looked red in gaslight
and dirty white color in the light of a
spirit lamp. This opens wide field for
the study of colors.
"A Sydney, Australia, paper says
that one of the wool companies there
has a burning machine, recently i'm
ported from America, which effectually
removes all burrs and other foreign mat
ter from sheep skins.
The council of hygiene in Paris. il
is said, is about to take steps to suppress
the use of old magazines and newspapers
for wrapping up food. The Austrian
government has prohibited the use of
such papers and also of colored papers
to inclose articles intended to be eaten.
American inventions have cheap
ened and facilitated canal construction,
both as to excavation and locks, to such
an extent that the Nicaragua Canal will
be completed in half the time and at
half the cost that the same work would
have demanded fifty years ago.-Inven-
tive Age.
Prof. Mosso, of Turin, finds that
the blood of cells is poisonous when in
jected into the veins of dogs and other
animals, and that an eel weighing five
pounds contains poison enough to kill
ten men. The blood of the eel is inert,
however, when taken into the stomach,
and the poisonous properties are de-
stroyed by heat.
Experiments made by DIR. Vasilieff,
of st. Petersburg, show that the boiling
of milk is not without its disadvantages.
The experiments were conducted on six
young men, three of whom received
boiled and three natural milk. DIR.
Vasilieff's conclusion was that, as re-
CARDS nutritiousness, boiled milk repre-
sents decidedly inferior dietetic arti-
Gle as compared with raw milk.
AT recent meeting of the Geologi
cal Institute at Vienna, report was read
on the remarkable fall of meteorites OBJ
served in December last at Jelica, in
Servia. The meteorites fell over an
area of elliptical form, spreading from
the Jelica Mountains toward the river
river Morawa, and inclosing several
villages. The area is five miles long
and about three in breadth, and there
fell upon it twenty-six meteorites,
weighing in all nearly eighty pounds.
1t is now some twenty years since
NJ. Falb, an Austrian scientist, first sug-
gested the possibility that the moon
may act upon the great ocean of molten
matter beneath the earth's crust exactly
as it acts in producing the tides of the
external ocean of water. He now con-
siders that the reality of such action is
proven, and that the earth's crust is Sc
verely strained and more or less warped
and broken at the times the theory
would indicate. 1t is during the periods
of greatest strain resulting from the
moons attraction that earthquakes ap-
pear to be most likely to occur and that
gases seem to be forced into coal mines
to such an extent as greatly to increase
the explosions.
"A London physician and surgeon re-
Gently analysed man and gave the re-
body operated upon weighed 1914
pounds. The lecturer exhibited upon
the platform 23.1 pounds of carbon, 30
pounds of lime, 1913 ounces of phos-
phorus and about one ounce each of
sodium, iron, potassium, magnesium
and silicon. Besides this solid residue
DR.. Lancaster estimated that there were
$685. cubic feet of oxygen, weighing 1871
pounds; 1865 cubic feet of hydrogen,
weighing 1914 pounds, and 50 cubic feet
of nitrogen in the mans body. All of
these elements combined in the follow
ing: One hundred and twenty-one
pounds of water, 1865 pounds gelatine,
1.32 pounds fat, S.S pounds fibrin and
albumen and ~ pounds of phosphate of
lime and other minerals.