The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-12-27
SCIENCE AND PROGRESS.

Paper pneumatic tires are inter
woven.
The Kirkville, Mo-, bone doctor now
calls himself an osteopathist.
The blood of the body passes through
the heart every three minutes.
Powdered aluminium mixed with
binoxid of sodium constitutes power
full explosive.
Aluminium is used as substitute for
leather in building up the heels OF
boots and shoes.
Men inherit their religious belief
from their mothers and their political
belief from their fathers.
Aluminium is being considered by the
War Department. in connection with
the equipment of the soldier.
Medical science now has the benefit
of Photographic pictures of the internal
organs of the human system.
Sugar fifteen times sweeter than the
sugar-beet product has been extracted
'$~froy Scotton seed meal by a German
mist.
VA distinguished French specialist is
now claiming that hypodermic injec-
tion of nitrate of strychnine will cure
alcoholism.
A master mechanic in Brooklyn has
invented machine which takes off
one third of the present cost of making
binder Irvine.
Arctic explorers who have found
themselves in the midst of an aurora
borealis describe it as producing a
cooling. priclsly sensation and very ex-
hilarating effect.
The aerial space within the limit of
our vision is calculated to have diam
eter of 420. 900, 600 miles and circum-
ference of 1899, 724, 100000 miles.
And this is only fragment of the inn
mensity of space.
1--WE are now approaching a mini
mum sun spot period, which experience
proves is coincident with period of
mild winters" This statement is
made by Stuart Jenkins in an article
in the Popular Scinece Monthly"
The use of aluminium is rapidly in
creasing. Some Russian bishops are
having their miters made of the metal.
But old-timers look upon the practice
as sacrilegious. Think of st. Paul
with an aluminium inter !! F" they ex-
claim.
It has been computed that the death
rate of the globe is 6S per minute, o.
700 per day, or 35,711 100 per year. The
birth rate is 70 per minute, 100, 800
per day, or 6,S17,200 per year, reck-
oning the year to be 1864 days in
length.
1t is a great mistake to peel potatoes
before cooking them. The skin, like
the bark of all medicinal roots, is the
richest part of the tuber. Potatoes
baked are more nutritious than pre-
pared in any other form, because the
valuable mineral salts are held in
solution by the pellicle of the skin.
A'system of electric lighting is being
put in at Juneau one of the best known
of Alaskan settlements-a place of
1900 inhabitants. When completed
this will be the first central electric
light plant in the Territory. Electric
ity, however. has been used for some
time in limited way in the Alaskan
mines
J. w. Swan exhibited before the
Royal Society specimen of gold leaf
100000 of an inch thick He made it
by electro plating thin film of gold
on a thin sheet of copper, and then dis
solving the copper with perchloride of
iron. This is only one-tenth the thick
ness of the finest film ever hammered
or rolled.
Electric welding has been used to
remedy blowholes in defective castings
by first drilling or chipping out the de-
fects and then heating the casting
around the blowhole in gas or oil
flame blast. Scraps of steel are then
introduced, and the electric arc IS APP
piled to melt them. The result il said
to be perfect joint, without seam or
flaw of any kind. Electrical Review
Natural gas is gradually declining
in pressure throughout the country.
From pressure of 210 pounds in 1887
it is now reduced to less than half that
amount. The banner year was 1888.
when the product reached value of
22,000.000. Last year the product
was worth less than $15.000,000. In
diana was the leading State, her pro-
duct alone being valued at $5,719, 900,
and it was the only State showing an
increase for 1898.
1t is a well-known fact that ON ac-
count of the superficial position of the
blood-vessels at the ankles and wrists,
the blood in cold water is easily chilled
at those points. For the same reason
in warm weather one ought to keep
these localities as lightly covered as
possible. This is the case with regard
to the wrists, but ninty-nin men out
of a hundred have thick leather cover
ings high over the ankles and the shop
keepers say that SO few low shoes are
called for that it is often difficult to fit
satisfactorily customer who does de-
mand them.
According To some recent staff sites