The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-05-10
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

"A Sydney, Australia, paper says
that one of the wool companies there
has burning machine, recently inn
ported from America, which cffectually
removes all burrs and other foreign mat
tor from sheep skins.
The council of hygiene in Paris, 1t
Is said, Is about to take steps to suppress
the use of old magazines and newspapers
for wrapping up food. Tho Austrian
government has prohibited the use of
such papers and also OF colored papers
to inclose articles intended to be eaten.
American inventions have cheap
ened and facilitated canal construction.
both as to excavation and locks to such
an extent that the Nicaragua Canal will
be completed in half the time and at
half the cost that the same work would
have demanded fifty years ago.-Invon-
tive Age.
PROF. Mosso, of Turin, finds that
the blood of eels is poisonous when in
iected into the veins of dogs and other
animals, and that an eel weighing five
pounds contains poison enough to kill
ten men. Tho blood of the eel is inert,
however, when taken into the stomach,
and the poisonous properties are de-
stroyed by heat.
Experiments made by DR.. Vasilieff,
OF st. Petersburg. show that the boiling
of milk is not without it's disadvantages.
The experiments were conducted on six
young men, three of whom received
boiled and three natural milk Dr.
Vasilieff's conclusion was that. as re-
CARDS nutritiousness, boiled milk repre-
sents decidedly inferior dietetic arti-
Gle as compared with raw milk.
AT a recent meeting of the Geologi-
cal Institute at Vienna, n report was read
on the remarkable fall of meteorites OBJ
served in December last at Jelica, in
Servia. The meteorites fell over an
area of elliptical form, spreading from
the Jelica Mountains toward the river
river Morawa, and inclosing several
villages. The area is five miles long
and about three in breadth, and there
fell upon it twenty-six meteorites,
weighing in all nearly eighty pounds.
1t is now some twenty years since
NJ. Falb, an Austrian scientist, first sug-
gested the possibility that the moon
may act upon the great ocean of molten
matter beneath the earth's crust exactly
as it acts in producing the tides of the
external ocean of water. He now con-
siders that the reality of such action is
proven, and that the earth's crust is Sc
verely strained and more or less warped
and broken at the times the theory
would indicate. 1t is during the periods
of greatest strain resulting from the
moons attraction that earthquakes APP
pear to be most likely to occur, and that
gases seem to be forced into coal mines
to such an extent as greatly to increase
the explosions.
"A London physician and surgeon re-
Gently analyzed man and gave the re-
suits to his class in chemistry. The
body operated upon weighed 1914
pounds. The lecturer exhibited upon
the platform 23.1 pounds of carbon, 30
pounds of lime, 22.3 ounces of phos-
phorus and about one ounce each ot
sodium, iron, potassium, magnesium
and silicon. Besides this solid residue
DR.. Lancaster estimated that there were
5,595 cubic feet of oxygen, weighing lei
pounds; 105, 300 cubic feet OF hydrogen,
weighing 1914 pounds, and So cubic feet
of nitrogen in the mans body. All OF
these elements combined in the follow.
ing: One hundred and twenty-one
pounds of water, 16.5 pounds gelatine,
1.32 pounds fat, S.S pounds fibrin and
albumen and ~ pounds of phosphate of
lima and otbnr arn1a