The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1891-03-31
SCIENTIFIC AND USEFUL
Scientific men live longest.

Set a dish of water in the oven
with cakes when baking and they
will seldom scorch.
A Cincinnati child has been re-
claimed from idiocy by the operation
of craniotomy.
Foreign powers are about to adopt
the electrical welding method OF
making shells for their artillery.
The "henry" has recently been
quite generally adopted in this
country and abroad as the practical
electrical unit of self-inductioD.
The acreage of the geological gar
dens in Europe ranges from about
half dozen to half hundred acres,
but hardly one of them has room
enough for its animals.
In the Wheatstone automatic
method OF telegraphy, when trans
uniting at the rate of 600 words a
minute, there are $4,000 currents per
minute sent out, each having a
duration not exceeding .002 of a
second.
The manna" which fell from the
sky in Asia Minor last August and
was baked into bread, has recently
been examined by men of science,
and is identified as a lichen belong
ing to the family "Lecanora escu-
lenta."
The Otaheitaens, although great
lovers of society and very gentle in
their manners, feed separately from
each other, each particular member
of the family taking his or her bas-
ket and turning with back to all
others in the room.
Between 1863 and 1873 the unit of
representation in the popular branch
OF Congress was one member to 49,
3S1 inhabitants; from 1873 to 1888 it
was 131, 425; from 1883 to 1893 it is
51,912, and for the ensuing ten
years it will be 173,901.
The destructive effects upon the
forests of the present demand for
timber for making railway ties, is
shown by the fact that this material
is now largely cut from trees that
will make only one tie, or at least
only one tie from a cut
a well-known embalmer, Vickers-
helmer, has produced liquid so
perfect that it can be applied sue
eessfully TO game. An embalmed
hare served after having been shot
six weeks was recently pronounced
to be as good as fresh.
New York has contributed 26 Cabi-
net officers in all, Massachusetts, rs,
Pennsylvania %, Virginia q and
Ohio IL. Missouri has 4. All of the
original thirteen States except Rhode
Island have been represented in the
Cabinet at one time or other
The Electrical Engineer holds that
the problem of obtaining light with
out heat is now one of such imme-
date moment, and the pecuniary
reward consequent upon a successful
solution of the problem is so great
that the energies of inventors can be
bent in no better direction than this.
Just as stone has taken the place
OF wood, so may steel supplant stone
and iron. Structures of steel of
forty or fifty stories may not be any
more remarkable twenty years hence
than a ten-story edifice was a genera
ton ago.-N. Y. Sun.
At Rawil- Pindie, India, there was
recently a "locust-block on the
railway line which lasted several
hours, and so fabricated the track
that for two or three days afterward
extra engines were required to draw
the trains over the sections affected.
The New York physicians testify
that 70 per cent. of the throat dis
eases of that city among children are
due to ill-ventilated school-rooms.
This is a pretty heavy school tax.
and is worth figuring up in all large
American cities.-Boston Globe.
The Mount Gents tunnel in the
Alps is seven and one-half miles, the
Arlberg SIX and one-half, the st.
Gothsrd nine and a quarter. The
Simplon will be twelve and one-half.
The cost of tunneling is very great.
The Mount Gents Tunnel cost
S15,000,000, the st. Gothard $12,-
100000.
The Indian Medical Journal re-
ports the case of a monkey which
got hold of family medicine case
and swallowed $50 of Count Mattels
cancer specific pills, one of which is
intended to be dissolved in a quarter
of water, of which teaspoouful is
dose. The monkey is as lively as
ever.
Belgium has $40 persons to the
square mile; the Netherlands, 352;
Great Britain and Ireland, 40. New
York with its tall buildings and mar
row streets, in its thickIy settled
wards, leads all other cities In this
respect, the population in certain
places being at the rate of 100000 to
the square mile
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