Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-12-27

NAL nutrition in the skin as we'll as
in other tissues. 1t is therefore largely
employed to improve the complexion.
states Prof J. V. Shoemaker, in q
variety of cases that are not actually
disease, but are on the border-line and
probably due to faulty nutrition.
Among the defects so treated are mud
dineSs of complexion. yellowneSs due
to disordered liver. oilness from re-
Taxed sebaceous ducts, -redneSS of nose
due to sluggish circulation drynesS
and roughness of the skin, and pig
mented spots and patches, including
freckleS
That gold should exist in the ocean
is an induction that Dr. Henry Wurtz
claims to have presented in 1866. and
in 1872 the discovery was made by E.
Sonstadt Assuming 90 grain for each
ton Of Sea-Water, it is computed that
the entire ocean contains over $780,
100000. 900 100000 of gold One of the
problems of the future, DR.. Wurtz now
predicts. will be the getting of some
of this gold by elecTolysis
That insects do not see we'll. especial
ly to a distance. is conclusion
reached by 4. Mallack from obServa-
ton ana calculation. Their composite
eye, however. has an ADVANTAGE over
the simple eye in the fact that there
is hardly any practical limit t. its
nearnesS of vision. The best insect
eye examined would give picture
about as good as if executed in coarse
woodwork, and viewed from a fOOt's
distance.
The United States Geological Survey.
established about II years ago. is do
ing work not suggested by it's title.
about half its energies and annual
appropriations, according to Marcus
Baker, being devoted to making
typographical map of the country.
More or less work of this kind has
been done in Ill but t or ) of the
10 States and Territories. The total
area mapped to date is nearly 100000
square miles, or about One-ffth of the
United States, and during the last few
years the areas surveyed have been
from 10000 to 10000 square miles per
year. Massachusetts, Rhode Island,
Connecticut and New Jersey are al
ready completely mapped on the larg-
est scale, their Legislatures having CO.
operated to hasten the work. The
various scales are 250,00O (abOut 4
miles to an inch), 125,OO0 and o.
500, the contour intervals ranging from
$50 or 200 feet to 10 or even feet
in fiat regions. The sheets on the
smallest scale, which is no longer used,
cover one degree of latitude by one
degree of longitude. The entire work
is designed to be accurate to scale,
which means, if it is assumed that
a hundredth of an inch is the limit
of visible error on the published map,
that each point on the largest scale
must be located within % feet of its
true position in nature. The total cost
thus far has been somewhat over s.
100000, with recent annual eXpendi-
lures of about $250,OO0.
One of the remarkable accomplish
ments of the ancient PeruvianS-WhO
eXceled in engineering, agriculture,
mining, weaving, and about every
other art of civiliZatiOn-WaS trepan-
ming, which is so difficult and haZar-
dous that recovery follows only about 4
fourth of the modern operations. The
great Muniz collection, ten porarily i'll
the custody of the Bureau Of American
EthnOlOgy, contains about 1000 Speci-
mems of prehistoric Peruvian skulls,
of which 10 are trepanned, and give
indications of subsequent recovery. A
young female seems to have survived
a series of operations resulting in an
aperture in the skull 4 inches long and
an inch wide, which was covered by
a silver plate.
A new substance having the remark
able and unique property of sOlidify-
ing when heated and remaining liquid
at temperat lures below zero has been
reported by a German chemist. 1t
has been named cryostase. and is OBJ
tanned by mixing together equal parts
of phenol, aamphOr and sapOninc, ana
adding a somewhat smaller proportion
of essence of turpentine. Certain sub
stances, like the albumens, harden on
heating, but this is the only product
that again liquefes on cooling.
The novel safety boiler of NJ. Chate.
mel, a French engineer consists Of a
nest of horizontal tubes placed over
the furnace Water is injected into
this nest as spray-never in solid bulk
and is instantaneOusly evapOrated
and superheated. The steam produc-
ing power is remarkable, and the
tubes, it is claimed, 10 not burn out
The existence Of a horse with large
toe attached to each hOOf has been an
n0unced from Marlborough, Kent, Eng.
This seems to be a reversiOn to
primitive type the toe being feature
of the extinct animals discovered by
Marsh and pronounced by Huxley the
Of our horses.