The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-03-19
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

Charcoal powdered and taken with a
little water is recommended for cleansing
the blood.
Rubber pavements have successfully
been tried on a bridge in Hanover and a
street in Berlin.
A Swiss engineer, NJ. Wantweller, pro-
poses constructing an underground rail
way up the Jungfrau mountain to its
summit.
Australian settlers complain that there
is a great increase Of destructive insects
since the English sparrows arrived and
drove out the native birds.
It is fairly established that the common
wart, which is so unsightly and often so
proliferous on the hands and face, can be
easily removed by small doses of sulphate
of magnesia taken internally.
A permanent aud durable joint can, it
is said, be made between rough cast iron
surfaces by the use Of mineral asbestos
mixed with sufficient white lead TO make
a very stiff putty. This will resist any
amount of heat, and is unaffected by
steam or water.
The reason person at one end of
long pipe will hear twice over the sounds
made at the other end is, that iron is u
better conductor of sound than air, so
that the sound which is heard last travels
through the air, and hence more slowly
than over the metal.
A mill operator in Providence, r. l..
has succeeded in carding, pinning, and
weaving the produce of the Chinese
Rama plant, which has hitherto been
impossible, though experimental on by
many manufacturers in the effort to OBJ
tain substitute for WOOL
The Sanitary Ne,os draws attention to
the fact that silk thread is soaked in
acetate of lead to increase its weight,
and persons who pass it through the
mouth in threading needles, and then
bite off the thread with the teeth, have
suffered from lead poisoning.
The relative values as foods of the
grains named blow arc given by Profess
sor Wiley as, first, wheat; second, sorg-
hum; third, maize; fourth, unhulled oats
Sorghum seed furnishes flour like
buckwheat, that makes passable bread,
and is coming into considerable use.
A medical authority, Dr. Munde, says
that the imprudent act of getting out of
bed without protecting the feet has
caused more disease to women previously
healthy than could result from any other
imprudence. The sudden exposure OF
the feet to cold has brought on many an
attack of cellulitis.
The recent discovery by New Eng
land chemist of cheap method of dis
solving zinc by combining it with hydro
gen is regarded as most valuable one.
The product is solution called zinc
water, and has the property of making
wood to which it has been applied abso-
lutely tireproof, and at very low cost.
The discovery of an ocean current
coming from the unexplored region be-
yond Spitzbergen is the subject of a
communication to be considered by the
Bremen Geographical Society. The cur
rent was encountered during the summer
by Drs. Kukenthal and Walker, and was
very strong from the middle of July tC
the middle of August, streaming through
the entire Olga strait from north to south,
and turning southeastward off King
Charles Land.
Recently one of the agents of the
bureau of ethnology discovered in 1
mound of London County, Tenn, small
stone with letters of the Cherokee alpha
bet engraved upon it. The puzzline
features is that it was discovered at the
bottom with one of the nine skeletons
found there, and that the mound has no
been disturbed within the present century
1t is known by the citizens that sixt,
years ago it was covered with trees anC
grape vines and has not been disturbed
since then until explored by the bureau
agent, while, according to history
Guess did not invent the Cherokee alpha
bet before 1921.