The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-06-25
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

Artificial ice can be manufactured, so
IL is said at retail cost of about SIS per
ton, or forty cents per 100 pounds.
The experiment Of treating typhoid
fever by prolonged immersion of the
patient in water has been tried with
gratifying success.
The Importance of placing compressed
air as motive power within easy reach
of the small manufacturer has been
recognized at Birmingham, England.
The measurement of 1000 students at
Cambridge England, showed that success
in literary examinations is in no way con-
nected with stature, strength or breathing
capacity.
An Australian meteorologist claims to
have proven that the moon has an inhu-
euco on the magnetic needle, varying
with its phases, declination and distance
from the earth.
The basin of an extinct crater has been
turned into a storage reservoir on Honey
Side Valley, New. 1t is one and a half
miles long by one mile wide, and is fed
by canal that taps Susan River.
A horse can perform 80, 600 units of
work-tbat is, a horse can raise $4,000
pounds one foot in one minute. An engine
that can do the same amount of work is
said to be one-horse-power engine.
A new telephone has been brought out
in England which is said not to infringe
upon any existing patent. 1t is of the
most simple construction, consisting of an
clectro-magnet and celluloid diaphragm.
River water was substituted for spring
water in one of the quarters of Paris
several times last summer. In every in
stance, according to the Semdine Medicdle,
an increase of typhoid fever was OBJ
served.
An electric typewriter is being con-
structed which will write letters in New
York as they are transmitted from Bos-
ton, and vice versa, the communications
being transmitted simultaneously over
four separate wires.
Great progress is being made in rapid
photography. Lord Rayleigh has pho
tographed minute jet of water in the
100, ,000th of a second; and new camera
takes ten successive views second on
the turning of crank.
DIR. Weisman, German biologist, is
trying to show that artificial moditica-
tions of living forms can be transmitted
from one generation to another He has
cut the tails off some 900 white mice in
the hope that they will breed a race of
mice without tails.
Sir James Crichton Browne says the
Scotch brain averages so ounces. the Eng
lish 40 ounces, the German 4S.3 ounces
and the French 40 ounces. Sir James
is a Scotchman, which accounts for the
position of that race at the head of the
cerebehc procession.
The construction of the pillars and
foundations of the great Forth bridge in
Scotland consumed 21, 900 tons of cement
and 707, 900 cubic feet of granite. The
total amount of resulting masonry is III,
600 cubic yards. The weight of the steel
in the bridge proper is 1000 tons.
1t is said that in each ton of camphor
wood brought to this country from Japan
there is twenty-five per cent. of camphor
and seventy five per cent. of waste. More
ever, one-half of the camphor evaporates
during the sea voyage, leaving twelve and
one-half per cent. of the drug after re-
duction. This accounts for the high price
of the article.
There are many very warm spots on
the torrid zone, but Bohrin, by the Gulf
of Persia, seems to be, as far as tempera-
ture goes, absolutely without rival. For
forty consecutive days in July and Au-
gust last year, which was by no means an
exceptional season, the thermometer was
known not to fall lower than 100 degrees
Fahrenheit, night or day, and often ran
up as high as 12S degrees in the after
noon.
A strong alkali at once applied to a
snake bite will decompose all the venom
which it touches. So if both fangs of the
snake have pierced the skin the two
wounds should be made one with sharp
knife, and then filled with dry carbonate
of ammonia. Frequent small dissolved
doses of the same should be taken in-
wardly, or fifty drops of aromatic spirits
of ammonia taken hypodermically, for its
peculiar effect upon the blood.