Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-09

mosphere, and, as it were, filter the air in the
same way as the carbon filters water that
passes through it.
BRAIN AND FACULTIES.-Cook County
Hospital has patient whose case is attract
ing considerable attention from the medical
profession in Chicago, says the Herald, and
whose recovery from a wound some 10 days
ago is little short Of miraculous. On the
morning OF October 21, Officer Costello, OF
the Seventh precinct, brought to the hos
pital man who, in an alteration with
street car driver at the corner of Thirty
ninth and State streets, had been struck
| over the head with street car coupling pin.
On examining the patient it was found that
there was a wound about the size of half
dollar above and behind the left ear, with
large cavity full of blood clots and crushed
brain matter. A large quantity of brain
matter had oozed out The operation was
tedious one, involving the laying open of
the scalp and removing all the crushed bone
and extraneous matter in the wound.
After the dressing the man found his
! speech, and his first words were: "Oh, give
me drink" He was able to walk from
the operating room to the bed in the ward,
where be has remained ever since, For
some days the man hovered between life and
death and nothing definite could be made
out of him. He could speak, but not intel
| ligibly, and it was found that, while the
spe .ch centers themselves had not been de-
stroyed, the associated track between them
| and the lingual centers had. For some days
almost the only answer that could be got
| from him was couched as follows: 'Jes sir;
| jes, sir; jes-s-s-s, sir, only one glass more,
his mind evidently running on the last
thing he remembered. The sight centers
had not been injured, as the wound was not
far enough back to afiect them, but the
temperature, hands, arms, legs and hear
| ing were all more or less afflicted. At
| times a red-hot pin could be applied to the
patient without his feeling it in the slight
| est. He was unable to lift either his right
or left arm to any distance, or grasp with
his hands except in the feeblest manner.
When spoken TO he would apparently con-
| slider and hesitate for some moments and
then suddenly do what he was told. When
asked a question he would try to answer,
knowing, seemingly, what he wanted to say,
but being unable to say it. He submits to the
dressing of his wound with the utmost COM
placency, and never moves a muscle while
the siphon is being placed in the cavity.
When asked if it hurts he says mo, sir, 4"
and is as gentle as a child. He obeys
everything said to him, and lifts or lowers
| his head Just as he is told. The only way
that it can be told that he is feeling any
! thing is in the alteration of his respiration
and the quickening of the action of the
heart and pulse.
INFALLIBILIrY OF THE PoPE.-The late
Cardinal Newman wrote the following let
| ter q few years ago: 81 certainly do hold
that the Supreme Pontiff has a gift which
no Gar or Sultan has, and to which, as far
as 1 know, Gar or Sultan never laid claim.
A ukase or halte is command or an ordi-
nance, suppose; but the subject matter OF
the Pope's infalIibility is truth, and truth
in the province of religion and morals. The
Pope is not intallible in his acts or his
commands. Pope Honorius made a great
mistake when he advised a certain course
! of policy as regards certain heterodo1
opinion. But we should contend he did not
enunciate, and could not formally enun-
| ciate doctrine which was heterodo1, not
because he had sort of inspiration by being
! Pope, but that a Providence is over the
church which would hinder a Pope Cat the
last moment) from teaching (Dropounding
| to believed) an error.
Revelation In its very idea is a revela-
ton OF truth, and it is a revelation, not for the
first century alone, but for all times. Who
is its keeper and interpreter or oracle for
| centuries two, three, four, as the Apostles
| were in tine first? We do not want, we do
not recognize. In st. Peter an Impeccable
| man, but sure tender of the truth. The
! Pope takes his place. ST. Peter erred in
| deed, and was reproved by St. Paul at
Antioch; but when he spoke as the minister
of Heaven. he as we'll as St. Paul Gas In
their Epistles) spoke truth and nothing but
truth. We do not want more than this
namely, truth; but we do want much.
We can blame Pope's actions, while we
believe in his formal enunciations of Chris
trian doctrine"
HEAT OF THE SUN.-The suns temper
ature is estimated at about 10000 Fab.
The temperature of molten metal in the
Bessemer converter is 10000 Fab, so that
some idea of the intense heat of the solar
orb may be imagined. At that extraor-
dinary high temperature not only iron but
every other metal known to mankind can
exist only in the vaporous condition. AL
though it is an impossibility for us to get
near the sun, yet we can by means of
powerful lens practically transport any OBJ
iect so that it will receive the same heat
from the sun as if it was as near to us as we
are to the moon, or within 240, 600 miles
from the sun. In the focus of such lens,
fire-clay, the diamond, and the most re-
fractory substances known to us are either
instantly melted or converted into vapor.
The earth at the distance of only 240 900
miles from the sun would melt like wax,
and no body can come anywhere near the
sun without getting melted and converted
into tine vaporous condition, even before
coming in contact with it.
COLOR OF GLAss.-According to Ebell
the red color of glass, colored with copper, is
due to finely divided metallic copper; but in
opposition to this view Messrs. L. Magne
and c. Guignet ascribe it to the presence of
cuprous oxide. In the Monitor Cerdnioue
these gentlemen describe certain experiments
on the matter which leads them to this con-
clusion: Basil cupric chloride heated be-
tween two plates of glass gives a red color,
and they assert that the soda iu the glass re-
| acts with the basic cupric chloride, giving
| cuprous oxide and sodium chloride. This
| experiment, however, deals with distinct
phenomenon, inasmuch as it is completed at
the softening point of the glass, provided air
| be excluded. Other tests in the same dlrec-
tion do not seem to result in the production
! of red glass. The Journal of Society of
Chemical Industry tells us that by iusing
together 100 parts of sodium carbonate, so of
calcium carbonate, 260 of sand, and 10 of
cupric oxide, a greenish-blue glass is OBJ
| tanned; the safhe mixture with 15 parts OF
forge scale substituted for the cupric oxide
| yields a yellow glass; but if these be fused
together they react on each other and result
in dark green glass streaked with purple