Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1890-08-27
sCIENTIFIc AND UsEFUL.

Coffee lessons the acidity OF the stom-
ach
Seals make breeding ground Of ice
bergs. This il the leather seal and not
the fur seal.
French army and navy surgeons have
been forbidden to practice hypnotism on
their patients.
The experiment of treating typhoid
fever by prolonged immersion Of the pa
tient in water has been tried with graft
flying success
There is said to be enough reclaimed
swamp land in Florida to produce half
the entire quantity of sugar consumed
in this country.
Goldfish follow the ice OF an iceberg
down until they reach the water under
1t, which place affords them an excel
lent feeding ground.
The long distance telephone is now in
successful operation between Boston and
Washington. Conversation is carried on
over this great distance with ease.
Those who advocate spelling reform in
the English language argue that one let
ter out of every seven used according to
the present practi' absolutely useless
In singleday rs, 900 shad were caught
in the Delaware River, as the result Il
the Matching jar and its appliances.
There has been a rapid increase in num-
hers during the past three years.
Steam heating of railway carriages
was introduced during the past winter in
Prussia. The steam is supplied from the
locomotive, and passes through pipes
underneath the carriages, the pressure
in these being reduced to 80 pounds per
square inch.
Experiments made in Italy with
mixed fuel of coal and petroleum for use
with marine boilers resulted is vessels
speed being raised from 15 knots to II
knots. The engineers, however, com
planned that the high heat generated I'M
jures the boilers.
The new remedy for consumption is
surgical and not medicinal. A German
surgeon has just cured patient of con-
sumption by cutting away the deceased
half of his left lung. The man is now
perfectly WELL and should the disease
reappear the surgeon is ready to remove
the rest of the lung. .-[Paris Edition Her.
ald
Edison. when in Paris laid great stress
upon the fact that it was dangerous to be
sending side by side with gas conduits
through subterranean Paris electrical
currents by wires charged with high
tension currents, and predicted that ex-
plosions would be the result Many ex-
plosions from this cause are now occur
ring in Paris, and newspapers Of that
city are reverting to Edison's warning.
River water was substituted for spring
water in one of the quarters of Paris sew
eral times last summer. In every In
sance an increase Of typhoid fever was
observed. The quantity of spring water
brought to Paris l,eing insufficient for
the demand, the council of public hygiene
and health has determined to expedite
the labors for the new supply from
springs recently bought by the city. and
to insist that the use of the present spring
waters be limited to food purposes
From Semaine Medic lie.
Plate glass mirrors are now largely
made at Allegheny, Pa Formerly It
took three weeks from the time work
was begun on a mirror before it could be
finished. Now. says manufacturer, we
get the glass in the morning and make
it into mirrors perfectly finished and
ready for sale before evening. Formerly
the backs Of mirrors were coated with
mercury; now sheets of pure silver are
used instead. The old mirror reflected
go to 65 per cent of the light that fell
upon it; the modern mirror reflects
nearly 50 per cent
Professor Sittig, ofStrasburg, has made
the important discovery that pyoctanin,
an aniline derivate, is an absolute de-
stroyer of pus in any quantity. His new
medicine is looked upon as the ideal
curer of wounds. suppuratious ulcers and
skin affections, and is totally harmless
1t is also highly diffusible, and has an
immense sphere of utility. Taken i'm
ternally, it is a remedy notably for pleu-
risy and peritonitis. Professor Merck,
of Darmstadt, has prepared all his sur
| gical dressing material with this new
discovery Dalziel