The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-11-15
SCIENTIFIC AID INDUSTRIAL.

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A single polypus hos been cut into
1914 parts, and each in time became a
perfect animal.
The climate of the Southern Polar
regions is much more severe than
that of corresponding regions to the
north.
The Doric column was never less
than four and rarely more than six
diameters high, and the diameter at
the top was three-fourths that at tho
bottom.
A German has invented paper from
which any sort of ink may be erased
by the use of moist sponge, but the
Government has refused to grant him
n patent on it.
The last annual circle of wood leaves
an accumulation of living cells upon
its surface, and toward midsummer
these cells produce an abundance of
new ones until the aggregate is sufi-
cient to form new annual layer. This
process on common trees requires
about six weeks.
Among the products which science
has put to valuable service is the net
tie, weed which is now being culti-
waited in some parts of Europe, its
fiber proving useful for variety of
textile fabrics. In Dresden thread
is produced from it so fine that u
length of sixty miles weighs only two
and a half pounds.
An official notice has been issued in
Russia that physicians shall have the
right to make use of hypnotism in the
treatment of their patients. In every
case of the application they must in
form the administrative authorities, at
the same time giving the names of the
physicians in whose presence the pa
tient was hypnotized."
A man fifty years old has, according
to French stat stician, worked G500
days, slept 5000, amused himself 1000,
walked 10000 miles, been i'll 500
days, has partaken of 1000 meals,
eaten 16, 900 pounds of meat and 1000
pounds of fish, eggs and vegetables,
and drunk 1000 gallons of fluid, which
would make lake of 800 feet surface
if three feet deep.
An attempt is being made in Eng
land to utilize the power absorbed in
the application of the brakes to tram
cars so as to render aid in restarting
the car. A spring is charged which
can be released and will start the car
without the aid of the horses. A for
ward and not a recoil movement is al
once given to the wheels, but its action
can be reversed in case of need-such
as to overrunning joints at functions.
Electrical progress has been very
rapid in Switzerland on account of the
abundance of cheap power from water
falls. Professor Dezler, of the Zurich
Polytechnic School, states that at the
close of 1892 there were in operation
552 electric light installations, fifty
two plants for the electrical transmits"
sion of power, 121 batteries of accum.
ulators and 1856 dynamos and electro.
motors. The number of incandescent
lamps was 115, 926 and of lamps 9746.
There are several simple methods of
distinguishing between mushrooms
and toadstools, and any person who
has seen the two together would not
be likely to mistake one for the other.
The mushroom has the neck solid,
with color or frill midway between
the earth and the head, whereas the
stem of the toadstool is hollow; the
mushroom has thick kid-like cover
ing, which the toadstool lacks, and
salt has no effect on the mushroom,
where it turns the toadstool black.