Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-09-17
POPULAR SCIENCE.


A waterproof paper has lately been in
vented that will even stand boiling.
| A simple remedy for hiccoughs is &
hump Of sugar saturated with vinegar.
i It is said that the ear is the most use
ful organ for the Identification of Grim.
inals.
A tailor says that few men hav.
evenly balanced shoulders, the right al
most invariably being lower than the
left
Modified opium smoking is suggested
By prominent medical periodical as a
valuable palliative in pulmonary tuber
culosis.
Natural gas experts from pittsburg,
Penn, are on their way to Brazil to
prospect for natural gas and petroleum
for the Government OF that country.
Stoneham, Ne, is a rich field for
mineralogists. Garnets are found in
abundance, and tournalines are not
scarce. One stone recently found there
sold for $500
The tomato has been traced back to
the sixteenth century, and although it
is mentioned since then by several
writers, it did not become a marketable
edible till 1929.
At Freiberg, Saxony, lightning struck
three times one of the mines, and the
third time it Knocked senseless several
miners working $50 metres deep under
tine surface of the earth.
A Leipsic scientist has demonstrated
by facts and figures, which most people
have always believed, that colds are
oftener caught by those who wrap them
selves up and avoid the severity of the
weather than By those who dare TO brave
the elements
Recent experience in cold storage
shows that different articles of food re.
quire different degrees of temperature for
their preservation, varying from thirty
three degrees Fahrenheit for eggs TO from
fifteen degrees to twenty six degrees for
poultry and various kinds of game.
Ornithologists tell us that when feed
ing the stride of the ostrich is from
twenty to twenty-five inches when
walking but not feeding, twenty-six in
ches; and when terrified, from eleven
and half to fourteen feet, or at the
rate of about twenty-five miles an
hour.
Chalk, manganese aud graphite have
been found in Coffee County, Tenn. The
chalk is equal to white crayon for writ
ing on blackboard, and the black
graphite writes on paper equal. to a
soft black lead pencil, The other min
etal is hard black substance, much re-
sembling in weight, color and pores,
black manganese
Artesian we'll boring is new indus
try in the Republic of Nicaragua. The
usefulness of these wells cannot be caicu-
lated. Every year thousands of cattle
die for want of water Agriculturists in
general, and coffee planters especially,
suffer much tor this necessary. Only
very few coffee planters have water
sufficient to wash their berries, ane
washed coffee brings a. ways from three t
| four cents more in the market than un
| washed.
The great mechanical possibilities il
4the way of electrical development ar
being prosecuted with zeal all over thu
| world, since it is realized that thi
power is the most easily transferred o
| all. A crucial test is now being mad'
at Frankfort -on-the- Main, where arrange
ments are made for transferring 30I
horse power from the Neckar. The sys
TEN is also being operated GA smaller
scale in many places in Switzerland. TIL
French have planned works at Havre TO
utilizing the ebb and flow of the tide tc
work turbine wheels to generate powe
for dynamos to supply Paris with light