The Pascagoula democrat-star., 1894-02-02

sSIPPI, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1894.

little red ants pleasant acid taste
Of Il piece Of pie eaten in the dark.
, DEGENERATED GERMS. - Cholera
bacllli from Paris and Hamburg have
been found to be practically identi-
cal, but to differ somewhat from a
laboratory specimen originally
brought from India. Ehis suggcstg>
a possible attenuation~of the yitoa1
during its residence in Eufope.
BLEEDING BREAD. = Considerable
dismay was caused in England dur
ing the recent hot weather by the ap-
pcarance of blood stains in bread, and
also in boiled potatoes, rice and other
| farlnaceous substances. In super
stitious times this somewhat rare
phenomenon was regarded as mira
Gle, but modern science has shown
3that it is due to the ge0wth Of Il
microscopic plant, which Is known to
somc-according to Dr. M. G. Cooke
as micrococcus prodigiosus and to
Others as bacillps prodigiosus. The
true explanation of the terrifying
blotches was first pointed out by a
Paduan naturalist in 1919. The same
production was seen near Berlin by
Ehrenberg in lS4S, at Rouen by Dr..
Camille Montaigne in the same year,
and was first recorded in Britain In
1868. About 1856 an epidemic vista
tion on the Continent was attributed
to this source. Carmine-red patches,
capable of staining the fingers, ap-
peaied on cooked meat during the
night, and various articles of food
were similarly affected until, after
about three months, the epidemic
suddenly ceased on the advent of a
lower temperature. Fresenus found
the individual organisms to be round
or oval cells not more than 10000 to
l-4O00 of a line in diameter. They
develop only in the dark, and when
kept continuously at a temperature of
100 degrees their color is gradually
lost.
| GLASS BRICKS. Experiments with
glass building bricks were begun In
1891 by M. Falconier, an architect OF
. Lyons. These bricks are hollow
being blown like bottles, and arr
given forms-such as cubes, hexagons
etc, that permit OF ready laying. A
bituminous cement, with base o
asphalt, is used with them. Th'
bricks serve as double windows, Civ
: ing protection against both cold ant
heat; they are good insulators Of
humidity and noise, and they lent
themselves readily to the decoration
Of buildings either by their form o
their color Many applications ar
foreseen. The bricks are neater thar
marble in meat markets, and are es
pecially adapted for bath halls, hot
houses, hospitals, refrigerating estab
lishments and buildings in which tn
absence Of windows would be an ad
vantage. A hot-house of glass brick
is Of about ordinary cost, saves fuel
and resists hail.
/ A REMARKABLE EXPERIMENT. =
The novel clcctroscope Of Mr.. Z. G
Rimington, an English electrician, |
especially interesting on account 0
its generation of light by yer
small mechanical effort. A T-shape'
tube about five inches long, will
about the bore of u spirit thermome
ter, and terminating in two b1lbs
has its air exhausted by an air-pumr
II land is then rotated between tn
finger and thumb, or by a small
motor. On bringing rubbed ebon
ite or glass rod near set of dOubl
fan-shaped images of light appears IL
the tube.
VALUE OF HANDS AND FINGERS. :
The comparative value of the hand
and fingers is fixed in a scale Of th
: Miners Unions and Miners Insul
! ance Companies of Germany. Th
loss OF both hands is reckoned as
depreciation in working capacity 0
= 100 per cent; of the right hand, 20 /
u 80 per cent, varying with occupation
J. left hand, 60 to 10 per cent +; thumt
) 20 to so per cent right forefinger,
! tolls per cent; left foretinger, 5
y 1876 per cent; third finger, least ]
y value, I to 8 per cent; little finger,
y to II per cent.