The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-05-15
SCIENCE Afto lyuusT1;3Is.


for wrapping up food. The Austrian
government has prohibited. the use Of
such papers and also OF colorel< papers
to inclose articles intended to DO eaten.
i 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
halt the cost that tho same work would
have demanded fifty years ago.-Inven-
tive Age g ~ s.
| Prof. Mosso, Of Turin, finds that
the hood of cells is poisonous when In
! jected into the veins of dogs and othor
animals. and that an eel weighing five
pounds contains poison enough toskiN
| ten men. The blood OF the eelsis inert,
however, when taken into the stomach,
and the poisonous properties are de.
stroyed by heat. -,gg.s,-,.zrr H.
+ Experiments made BY Dr. vasilieff,
OF st. Petersburg, show that the boiling
OF milk is not without its disadvantages.
+ The experiments were conducted On six
young men; three of whom received
| boiled and three natural milk DR..
Vasllich's conclusion was that, as re-
CARDS nutr;tiousness, boiled milk repre-
sents decidedly inferior dietetic arti-
| Gle as compared with raw milk.
: AT recent meeting of the Gcologi-
cal Institute at Vienna, q report was read
ON tho remarkable fall of meteorites OBJ
served In December last at Jelica, In
Servia- The lnoteorites foil over an
area OF olliptical form, spreading from
the Jclica Noun aims 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
M: Falb, an Austrian scientist, first suq-
! 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
sexterna! ocean of water. He now con-
siders that the reality of such action is
I proven. and that the earth's crust is Sc
verely strained and more or less warped
and broken at tho times the theory
, would indicate. 1t is during the periods
! OF greatest strain resulting from the
moons attraction that earthquakes ap-
pear to be most likely to occur, and that
gascs seem to be forced into coal mines
to such an extent as greatly to increase
the explosions.
j A London physician and surgeon re-
Gently analysed a 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.l pounds of carbon, 80
pounds OF lime, 1913 ounces of phos-
phorus and about one ounce each of
sodium, iron, potassium, magnesium
and silicon. Besides this solid residue
5,595 cubic feet of oxygen, weighing 121
pounds; 10000 cubic feet of hydrogen,
weighing 1874 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, 1875 pounds gelatine,
/ 1.32 pounds fat, s.8 pounds fibrin and
albumon and ~ pounds of phosphate of
lime and other minerals.
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.
-He-"Wcll, you know Judge others
by myself" She-''Yes; but isn't that
rather low standard of judgment?"-
Boston Transcript.
(which would you rather ne, q
:, knaye or a fool?" asked 11ioticus Il
don't know" replied Cynicus, ''what has
been your experience?"-N. Y. Sun.
Young Wife-"O, John, the rats
have eaten all my angel cake!'' "What!
All of it?' Young Wife-"Every piece
I feel like crying" Husband-"O,
pshaw Dom cry over few rats. Life.
j Dude (posing for bold. bad MAN.
SHOW does water taste, Miss Belasys?"
Miss Belasys-"You don't mean to say
they've brought youSup all this time on
milk?" -Bostonian.
Was my, name brought up last
night?' Eyes" ''Would you mind say
ing what was done?' r''I was there.
The treasurer was instructed to buy
three quarts of blackballs for the use OF
members. Life.
/ DE Smith-''Hello, Travis! What's
everybody crowding out of the drawing.
room for? Have refreshments been an
nounced?'' 1ravis---:'No, but Bloodgood
is getting ready to sing. "-Burlingto
+, Free Press.
He had asked her the momentous
question with great warmth. ''You
know" he said, after a pause, "that
soft answer turneth away wrath
That's very true" she replied, with
/ sarcastic tinge in her voice, ''but soft
/ question doesn't" Washington Post
/ Little Boy Mamma why are you
/ so cross at me all the time?" Tired
Mamma because you keep. doing
!! wrong, and want to make an impress
sion on your mind" Little Boy
j. 'Well, mamma, if you'd be good natured
just onceit would make q bigger i'm.
preston" -Golden Days. =. : .,.
What; is the trouble between you
and your .husband?"s HE makes me
jealous of certain ladies' I'm what
way?'' ''He mentions having met them
when wasn't with him." '.Pooh! they
are not the ones to be afraid off, '.Who,
then?'' "Those whom he hasn't men.
toned. Chicago Times. / I
I Miss Slyppe-'EMr. Penfeather Is sc
easily EN- barrassed, don't you think?
asked him yesterday to tell me Just
what he really thought of me and he
was so taken by surprise that he couldn't
say word" Miss Flyppe-:''.Tha was
not embarrassment, it was merely po-
/ likeness. '-Terre Haute Express.
/ -"1s there adoctor aboard?' queried
lanky Texan, who had stopped the
train in the middle of the prairie.
Three men stood up. GAN right" said
the Texan; Il am very glad. If there
is any disturbance you gentlemen will
be handy, for I'm going to rob the
train. "--Harper's Bazaar.
-Adifferent vegetable.
: here, Dick, enough joking about this.
! I'm in earnest now, and I demand, sir,
that you pay mo that ten you borrowed"
Dick-''So you're getting on your dig.
nifty, are you? Well, go ahead. You
can't get blood out of turnip, you