West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1890-06-05
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.


il is said, at a retail cost of about IS per
ton, or forty cents per 100 pounds.
The experiment OF treating typhoid
fever by prolonged immersion OF the
patient in water has been tried with
gratifying success.
The Importance of placing compressed
air ms motive power within easy reach
of the small manufacturer has been
recognized at Birmingham, England.
The measurement of 1000 students at
Cambridge, England. showed that success
in literary examinations is in no way con
nected with stature, strength or breathing
capacity.
An Australian meteorological claims to
have proven that the moon has an infu.
eucc on the magnetic needle, varying
with its phases, declination and distance
from the earth
The basin of an extinct crater has been
turned into storage reservoir on Honey
Side Valley, New. II is one and a half
miles long by one mile wide, and is fed
by canal that taps Susan River.
A horse can perform 33, 900 units of
work-tbat is, horse can raise 33, 900
pounds one foot in one minute. Az engine
that can do the same amount of work is
said to be a one horsepower engine.
A new telephone has been brought out
IN England which is said not to infringe
upon any existing patent. IL is of the
most simple construction, consisting of AN
electro magnet and celluloid diaphragm.
River water was substituted for spring
water in one of the quarters of Paris
several times last summer. In every in-
stance, according to the !Semdine Medicale,
an increase of typhoid fever was OBJ
served
An electric typewriter is being con
structcd which will write letters in New
York as they are transmitted from Bos-
ton, and vice versa, the communications
being transmitted simultaneously over
four separate wires.
Great progress is being made in rapid
photography. Lord Rayleigh has pho
tographed a minute jet Of water in the
100, OOOth of a second; and a new camera
takes ten successive views second OF
the turning OF crank.
Ut. Wclsman, German biologist, Is
trying to show that artificial moditica.
tions of living forms can be transmitted
from one generation to another. He has
cut the tails off some 900 white mice in
the hope that they will breed race of
mice without tails.
Sir James Crichton Browne saws the
Scotch brain averages so ounces. the Eng
hgh A %
and the French 47.9 ounces Sir james
is Scotchman, which accounts for the
position of that race at the head of the
cerebelic procession.
The construction of the pillars and
foundations of the great Forth bridge i'm
Scotland consumed II 900 tons of cement
and 7O7 900 cubic feet of granite. The
total amount of resulting masonry is III,
900 cubic yards. The weight of the steel
IN the bridge proper is 81, 900 tons.
II is said that in each ton of camphor
wood brought to this country from Japan
there is twenty-five per cent of camphor
and seventy-five per cent of waste. More
ever, one-half of the camphor evaporates
during the sea voyage, leaving twelve and
one-nalf per cent. Of the drug after re-
duction. This accounts for the high price
OF the article
There are many very warm spots on
the torrid zone, but BOhrin, by the Gulf
OF Persia, seems to be, as far as tempera-
ture goes, absolutely without rival. For
forty consecutive days in July and Au-
gust last year, which was by no means an
exceptional season, the thermometer was
known not TO fall lower than 100 degrees
Fahrenheit, night or day, and often ran
mp as high as 1913 degrees in the after
noon.
A strong alkali at once applied to a
snake bite will decompose all the venom
which 1t touches So if both fangs of the
snake have pierced the skin the two
wounds should be made one with n sharp
knife, and then filed with dry carbonate
of ammonia Frequent small dissolved
dose Of the same should bc taken in.
wardly, or fifty drops of aromatic spirits
Of ammonia taken hypodeTmically, for its
peculiar effect upon the blood.