The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-11-23
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

A doctor has launched the theory that
the best method Of inducing a flow of
thought is to lay the head fiat on the
table.
DR.. David d. Stewart, of jefferson
Medical College, Philadelphia, claims to
have discovered that hydronapthol is
cure for cholera.
There are ten places of the earth, dis
taut from each other 300 miles aud up
wards, and yet none Of the ten has either
latitude or longitude.
Londoners seriously discuss the ad
vantages Of placing a school Of crocodiles
in the Thames, to act as sclvengers, aud
thus purify the water.
Carl Voght, the celebrated German
anatomist, is responsible for the theory
that small-headed idiots are a retrograde
movement toward the monkey type.
A post-mortem examination of the
brain Of a Missouri pauper showed that
it weighed 144 ounces, or more than
three times the weight of the normal
brain.
A microphone device has been invent.
ed by Frenchman which will reveal the
approach of distant vessels by making
audible the noise produced by the motion
Of their propellers.
The latest cure for obesity is to par
take of only single dish at a meal.
This, it is said, will in few weeks re-
duce the weight of the most obese per-
son to a normal condition.
II a man who weighs 16S pounds
we're proportionately as strong as fly
ing beetle of the cockchafer family he
would be able to push along level ground
weight equal to 13l tons.
Chemical action formed a stone in the
stomach of La Marshale, the famous
hurdle jdmping horse of Paris. He died,
and the stone, a ball nearly eight inches
in diameter, is in the museum of
Partisan veterinary.
It is suggested that the muscular con.
traction to which the corpses of cholera
victims are subject might give clue to
the real nature OF the disease. These
twitchings have led to the delusion that
many patients have been buried alive.
Aside from the honey stored by the
busy bee the Rhode Island Experiment
Station expresses the belief that the in
fluence bees and insects exert in the
proper fertilization of the flowers of
fruits and vegetables is of far greater
Importance than is generally allowed.
Fossil remains of the huge animals
that inhabited the plains of Eastern Ore
gon hundreds Of years ago are found in
the placer mine above Prairie City. A
huge tooth several inches across the
crown was picked up few days ago,
while early in the summer the immense
skull of some ancient species of animal
was found near the same place.
The color of certain shrimps aud crabs
and also the color of their eggs are
known to vary greatly with the sur
roundings. Those living in green
sponges are much larger, lay vastly more
eggs, which are also little larger, aud
the shrimps are green or yellow, and the
large claws are always orange red, while
those of the brown sponges are red,
blue or brown.
For all KINDS OF metals mix half pint
OF sweet oil with halt a gill of turpen-
tine; stir into this powdered rotten
stone till of the consistency OF cream;
use in the ordinary way. For tin, to
three pints of water put one ounce Of
nitric acid, two ounces of emery powder
and eight ounces of powdered pumice
stone; mix we'll and use with a flannel,
letting the mixture dry on the article to
be cleaned; then polish with leather.