The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-01-24
SCIENTIFIC MISCELI s"Y.

from egg ait umen is 'ound 10 owe lts
properties to alcohols and hydrogen
sulphide.
1t is estimated that of the 100000
persons employed on the railways Of
the United Kingdom, about 10000
are color blind.
A preparation from oil Of cloves
acetamide of eugenol--is reported to
be generally superior to cocaine as q
local annsthetic.
A definite estimate of snairs pace
fifteenth. thoussndths of q metre per
seconds or, di d to M. Carm.l.
Flammaron, Il e French astronomer.
Peary saw humble bees in Green.
land as far north as eighty.one de-
grees and thirty. seven minutes and
bluebottle flies were very abundant.
The chief birthplaces of tornadoes
are five in number--the West ladies,
Bay of Bengal, and the coast of China
north of the equator, and the South
Indian ocean off Madagascar and the
South Pacific near Samoa.
Novel balloon services are proposed
for the exhibitions at Brussels and
Antwerp A "steam balloon for the
latter would accommodate 30 passen-
G RS; and two balloons for Brussels
would make alternate captive and free
aScents.
1t has been recently dem onstrated
that the typhoid bacillus cannot live
more than three months when buried
in the earth or exposed to sunlight
and rain. Another observer finds that
tetanus poison retains its virulence
many years.
In the experiments OF NJ. A Joan
mis-, chalk has been hardened by in
tense heat under pressure OF ftteer
atmospheres. The product resembles
marble, but is finer grained, and is
capable of being polished AID reduced
to thin sheets.
Manufacturers at St. Etienne have
been experimenting with process
invented by Chardonner-of making
silk from wood pulp. They expect to
produce an artificial silk with the es-
sential properties of the natural at
half tho price.
A new luminous fungus from Tahiti
emits, light like that Of the glow
worm, which it retains for "a hours
after being gathered. The fungus is
used by native women for personal
Attainment 1t belongs to the genus
Pleurotus, and is believed to grow on
trees
An expensive botanical work was
Lord Bute's "Botanical Tables OF
which not more than sixteen copies
were printed, a, cost of over $50,
600 There are nine volumes, with
65+ plates by a German engraver
The Royal library at Windsor contain.
the copy given to Queen Charlotte, te
whom the work WAS dedicated.
The TRAM AS A SOURCE OF EN
ERGY A tramp feeding machine i,
an English EDITORS semi seriou,
solution of troublesome problem
The machine would be placed il
railway stations and other public
buildings, and hungry tramp would
fad it OILY necessary to urn the
crank until certain smouot of electri,
erergy hsd oeeN generated and store d
when nie~le would drop out. The
stored electricity would be sold fol
industrial purposes
4 CHEMICAL PRoGREss-It is not I'm
likely that chemists are on the verge
of some epoch making discovery
Crookes and others have been accumu
lating evidence indicating that the so
called elements have not the absolute
y fixed atomic weights gwen them
or that there exists grea. number o,
unrecogn zsd substances shading eff
by almost imperceptible difference
from, one Of our elements towar,
another. The latest experiment is tina
OF lord Rayleigh, who has prepared
nitrogen y Two different methods ant
finds the atomic weight of one speci
men to be | 1000 part less than tina
Of the other.
ANOTHER DIRlGlBLE Balloon
Probably no more simple or perfec
air ship has yet been made than tia
OF Hamburg gardener, Carl Theodo