The Worthington advance., 1890-07-31
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

e The sales Of Dresden chica at the
works in Meissen last year .mou atcd to
e475. .0Oo. the greatest sum ever realised
In single year.
To coat tin dishes to Withstand the
action Of chemicals used in developing
and toning photos, use quick drying
asphalt varnish, ~ that for bicycles.
The highest military authorities
hsve determined to build in the neigh
borhood Of St Petersburg large fac
tory for the use Of smokeless powder.
One hundred boys and girls Of Wood
land, CAL, whose ages range from twelve
to nineteen years, have formed Co
operative Fruit Canning and Drying
Union.
1t is reported that an effort 10 being
made at Atlanta, Ga. to organize COM
pany with $500, 600 capital to establish :
newly-invented system Of electric mo-
tive power. .ssS S.
S. 1t has lately been shown ,that If two
coins are placed on opposites sides Of .
plate of glass and electrified for two
minutes they will leave : perfect image
OF themselves upon tho glass.
Herr Meyer, in recent address In
Heidelberg. announces than we may
reasonably expect that chemistry will
teach US to mako the fibre of wool .
source of human food. Wood fibre con-
sists essentially of cellulose, from which
it Is hoped to make starch.
"A thermometer valued at ten thou
sand dollars-the finest in America-is
among the instrumental resources Of
Johns Hopkins university. The gradua-
ticns on the scale are so fine that 4
microscope il necessary for reading them.
The latest report states that twenty.
ono observatories are now engaged in
the international undertaking of photo
graphing the entire heavens. Each OBJ
servatory will have to take about 700
and it is hoped to finish the work in
three or four years.
There is talk in France of utilizing
wateroourses as railway motive power.
1t is proposed that the track shall be
laid on an embankment in the middle OF
the current, and that the locomotives
shall have two paddle-wheels dipping
into tho water and revolved by it.
I'm his electrical treatment of wart,
DR.. Patrick, of Oppeln, first moistens it
with warm solution of salt, then
thrusts both needles through it just
above the skin, and gradually turns on
the current until pain is felt Five
cells are sufficient battery. In most
cases two sittings of five minutes each
destroy the wart. which gradually dries
Up and falls away.
M. de Malarce recently informed the
French Academy Of Sciences that the
use of the metric system had in 1887 be-
come compulsory in countries having an
aggregate population of 3O2, ,000, ,000
being an increase of $1,000, 900 persons
obliged to use it in ten years; use was
optional in countries having nearly g.
Oo0, 600 Inhabitants; and it was legally
admitted and partially applied in coun'
tries having an aggregate population o1
395, ,OOO,OO
An important advance in surgery
the successful substitution of catgut,
ivory and bone for defects in bone
muscles and nerve sinews-was illus
! trated by Prof. Gluck at the surgical
congress at Berlin. The inserted ma
terial sucks up the juices of the body
establishing the junction of the sepa
rated ends without any shortening o.
the part. Prof. Gluck presented cases
in which mobil' ty had been restored tt
defective fingers-a hitherto impossible
feat-by insertions Of from two to fou,
inches of catgut; case in which the re-
moval of a tumor from the thigh had
left defective bone, which was rene
died by the insertion of ivory, shorten
ing being prevented; and a case in which
. large piece of nerve in the groin hai
been replaced with catgut, with NJ
serious impairment of functions.-Ar
kansas Traveller.