Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-07-12
SCIENTIFIC PARAGRAPHS.

The Eiffel tower, Paris, was struck by |
three strokes of lightning at once, few
DAYS ago, but no apparent damage was
done.
Electric burglar catching is successful in
Paris. When the burglar enters, the bell
in the walters room rings, and the in
truder is quickly nabbed.
Celluloid silk, dangerously infammable,
is recent invention seductiyely attractive
from its beautiful appearance. The small
sample commented on "went off like a
fash"
A line of onnibuses, to be run by cleo
tricity. is to be started in England in a
few weeks. Each carriage will carry
twenty-six passengers, and be driven by
storage batteries.
Professor Charcot, the celebrated French
hypnotist, after long period of expert
menting, announces the opinion that but
one person in 100000 is subject to the
hypnotic influence.
The Electrical ReUiew says: taking as
base of comparison the capital invested,
the number of serious injuries met with in
the electrical field is not as large as that
in other great industries"
An English invention, just patented,
consists of an apparatusfo for ascertaining the
contiguity or water or gas-workings in
mines, and for passing food to imprisoned
miners and for rescuing them. 1t is said
to be well planned.
There are no facts known to show that
there have been changes in the climates
of the earth within historic times Where
IL Il.
Words, the vine and olive were growing
twenty centuries back.
1t is not true, says the New York Com
n,ercial Adgertiser, that the photograph is
an electrical device. 1t is mechanical
and no more depends upon electricity for
its action than does clothes-wringer
An electrical motor is often used to ope-
rate it.
The danger of infection from impure
water is said to be only slightly reduced
by filtration through sand, bacteria pass
ing through at all times, but in larger
numbers Just after the filter has been
cleaned and again after it has been used
for some time.
A new alloy, composed of gold, palladi.
UNI, rhodium, copper, manganese, silver
and platinum, is coming into use instead
of steel in the manufacture of various
parts Of watches, so as to obviate the dis
advantages which follow their magnetiza.
ton or oxidation.
DIR. Flint is quoted as saying: 81 have
never known a dyspeptic to recover vigor-
Gus health who undertook to live after a
strictly regulated diet, and l have never
known an instance of a healthy person
living according to strictly dietetic sys-
tenn who did not become dyspeptic"
In Spain, recently, layers of new wine
in bottles of colored glass have been ex-
POSED to the direct rays of the sun, with
the result that both flavor and quality
have been improved. In the south Of
Europe cognac is refined by exposing the
bottles for years on the roofs of buildings
Frank E. Bundy, of Elmira, n Y, ha:
invented glass trumpet for the phono.
graph. Mr.. Edison made trumpets from
various metals, but had to acknowledge
them all imperfect. The addition of Mr.
Bundy's trumpet to the photograph re-
suits in perfect reproduction of the
sound.
Mr.. Wheatstone says: 81 have found
that electricity travels through 400 meters
of copper wire in .000,000,S6S parts of a
second, and would, therefore, travel
through 400, l33 kilometers of copper wire
in one second" Mr. w is the inventor Of
mode whereby the velocity of electricity
is ascertained
While ice is scarce and dear, Prof. E. l.
Nichols foreshadows an agreeable future
He thinks the day is not distant when
brine, cooled below the freezing point OF
water, will be carried under the streets in
pipes, as steam is now, supplying from
central stations very convenient substi-
tute for ice in the domestic household
The Warehouseman speaks of a mixture
for making cloth from waste glass, a fabric
which is incombustible, can be manufac-
tured in all colors, and of any desired
strength or thickness. at is used for
ladies' dresses and for other purposes in
place of silk, more CLASSY aid lustrous
and is easily washed" Its durability i:
not vouched for