The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-04-26
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY,

When sugar is added to water the
mixture does not freeze at several de-
grees below freezing point. This en-
ables bricklayers to continue at work
when ordinary mortar would CONCEAL.
| The latest fad in the treatment of
smallpox is to shut up the patients in
a room from which ultra violet rays
are excluded by red window panes or
| red shades. All the patients thus
treated in the Bergen hospital, Nor
| way. recovered soon and with few scars.
-Kitasato, Koch's able Japanese
| pupil, who has gone back home on a
snug allowance from his government
| of S45, 600 to get started and SIS, 600
| year afterwards, is reported to be al
ready treating consumption with re-
markable success with tuberculin mod
fled by himself.-Medical and Surgi-
cal Reporter.
The depth to which the suns rays
penetrate water has been recently de-
termined by the aid of photography
1t has been found that at depth of
553 feet the darkness was to all intents
| and purposes the same as that on a
clear but moonless night. Sensitized
plates exposed at this depth for con-
siderable length of time gave no evil
dence of light action.
DIR. Zergler. a German scientist,
thinks that it may be possible to fore
cast the weather by taking photo
| graphs of the suns disk. He says that
''circular or elliptical halos round the
orb of day indicate violent storms
especially if the halos are dark in tint
or of large diameter. Lightning and
magnetic disturbances may also be ex-
| pected from these signs"
| Snow weighed at Washington at
| different times in 1SS7-S9 weighed from
| five and one-half TO ten and three
quarters pound per cubic foot. In
| four ounces on falling, twenty-one
| pounds four ounces twenty-four hours
after falling, temperature sdegrees F.;
| twenty-eight pounds ten ounces sew
| enty-two hours after falling, tempera-
ture 30 degrees F.
The importance of bathing is an
| acknowledged fact, but the when and
| how are not so well understood. NJ.
| Werthirmer, of Paris, has been making
| experiments, and gives the result to
the public. He shows that a sensation
of cold on the skin acts on the circula-
| ton of the lower part of the trunk,
! that is to say. on the veins, and also
on the brain, in the same way as
mechanical or electrical stimulus of
| the sensitive nerves of the skin.
During the month of February
| Scotch ship builders launched fourteen
vessels, aggregating 25,O64 tons, of
which eight, measuring 16, 2S3 tons,
were steamers, and six, of S,7S1, sailing
vessels. To the total the Clyde con-
tributed ten vessels, representing 49,
131 tons, the Forth two of 1888 tons,
| and Montrose two of 200 tons. The
tonnage on the stocks and on builders
books at present represents about
1852, 900 tons, compared with III, 900 tons
at the same date of last year.
"A German scientist treats of the
peanut as an article of food rich in al
bumen, of which it contains AZ per
cent, together with 10 per cent, of
fat and non-nitrogenous extractive
matter. He recommends the use of
roasted peanuts in the form of soup or
mush. On account of their cheapness,
peanuts are recommended as popular
article of food, especially in poor
houses and the like: moreover, they
are recommended as an article of food
for the corpulent, for diabetes and for
the subject of kidney disease, in the
last mentioned of which foods rich in
animal albumen are to be avoided.
The agricultural returns for Great
Britain in the past year Says the
Scottish Farmer are now published,
and afford striking evidence of the
changed conditions under which farm
ing is now prosecuted. No one re-
quired them TO prove that wheat
lands were going out of cultivation,
but it is something to get the proof of
this established by hard figures. Far
mers are turning their attention more
| and more to barley and oats, and in
| both of these cereals there is an in
crease. The most striking fact how
| ever, is that there is actually de-
crease in the number of almost all
classes of live stock-cattle, sheep and
pigs showing decided fall.