The Van Buren press., 1894-05-05
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.


mixture does not freeze at severai oe
frees below freezing point ms en-
sbies bricklayers to continue at wors
when ordinary mortar would congeaL
The latest fad in the treatment on
smallpox is to shut up the patients ~
n room from which ultra violet rays
are excluded by red window panes OF
red shades All the patients .nus
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
snup allowance from his government
Of as, 900 to get started and sis.ooo
year afterwards, Is reported to be al
feady treating consumption with re-
mariable success with tuberculin MOD
ifed by himself.-Medical and surgf
cal Reporter.
The depth to which the suns rays
penetrate water has been recently oe-
termined by the aid Of photography.
II has been found that at depth OF
s53 feet the darkness was to all 1ntents
and purposes the same as that on a
clear but moonless night. Sensitized
biates exposed at this depth for con-
siderable length Of time gave no evi'
dence of light action.
DIR. Zergler. German scientist
thinks that it may be possible to lore
east the weather by taking photo
oraphs of the suns disk. He says that
s.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 ana
magnetic disturbances may also be ex'
pected from these signs"
Snow weighed at Washington at
different times in 1ss7-s-9 weighed IRON
five and one-half to ten and three
quarters pound per cubic foot. In
Canada it weighed fourteen POUNDS
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 80 degrees F.
The importance of bathing is an
acknowledged fact, but the when and
how are not SO we'll understood. Nj.
Werthirmer, OF Paris, has been making
experiments, and gives the result to
the public. He shows that 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 a
mechanical or electrical stimulus OF
the sensitive nerves of the skin.
During the month of February
Scotch ship builders launched fourteen
vessels, aggregating 25,oe4 tons, OF
which eight. measuring 16,2s3 tons,
were steamers, and six, of S, ISL, sailing
vessels. To the total the Clyde con-
tributed ten vessels, representing %,
1871 tons, the Forth two OF 1,7S3 tons,
and Montrose two of 200 tons. The
tonnage on the stocks and on builders
books at present represents about
2b2, 900 tons, compared with III, 600 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 A per
cent, together with 10 per cent OF
fat and non-nitrogenous extractive
matter. He recommends the use oi
roasted peanuts in the form of soup OF
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 fol
the subject Of kidney disease, in the
last mentioned Of which foods rich il
animal albumen are to be avoided.
The agricultural returns for Grea
Britain in the past year (says .th'
Scottish Farmer) are now published
and afford striking evidence of tn
changed conditions under which farm
ing is now prosecuted. No one re
quired them to prove that whea
lands were going out OF cultivation
but 1t is something to get the proof o
this established by hard figures. Far
mers are turning their attention NOR
and more to barley and oats, and Il
, both of these cereals there is an in
, crease. The most striking fact how
ever, is that there is actually dc
crease in the number OF almost al
} classes OF live stock-cattle, sheep an
4 pigs showing decided fall