The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1895-07-01
Scientific Notes.

An electric restaurant is 10 hr one OF
the feat t,rcs in the great exposition to
be held in Amsterdam. Visitors will
br served automatically with a com
uIrtr dinner. and all they will have TO
clo will hc to press an electric button,
eat the food. and pay the bill
\ Brooklyn physician claims 10 have
discovered process for cmhaImlng
which will make a body as hard as
marble. thus beating the lost mumml
fling art
An important recent invention Is
what is known as the magazine loom
Hitherto one man has been required To
operate six looms, but ii is claimed
that sixteen looms can he managed 10y
one man by use Of this invention.
BY placing film of spores under the
solar spectrum thus producing pho
tOgraph Of the spectrum In living and
dead bacteria Prof H. Marshall Ward
has shown that the rays If sunlight
that kill micorbcs are the blue and
violet.
Extraordinary results are claimed
for a new bullet invented 10y "A Swiss
army officer named Hehler. The pro
jectie is shaped somewhat like a
goose quill. and with "A small charge OF
about two and half grammes of powd-
err it will travel 100 yards and penetrate
block of wood TO the depth of nine
feet and even at COCO yards it will still
enter block of wood.
Numerous cases of a well marked
febrile disease, terminating in pneu.
monia, are reported to have occurred
in Paris during the last three years.
The disease has been traced to infec-
tion from freshly imported parrots, and
what appears to be its specific organ :
ism has been isolated 10y Prof Nocard
from the Diseased birds.
The inoculations against cholera,
made by Dr. W. NJ. Haifkine in India,
have been carefully followed up, to
obtain records and have given results
appearing decidedly favorable. In Cal
cutta the percentage of attacks ana
deaths among the inocculated was |. Is
per cent. while among the unoculated
the percentage of cases reached ID. 64
per cent and of deaths G} per cent.
A fact claimed to have been conclu-
sively established is the harmlessness
of the operation.
A new art the value of which
may be more evident as the eye be-
comes trained to it, has been brought
out by a London artist Wallace Kim
linton. 1t consists in the application
to color of rhythm and the capability
of rapid combinations-qualities hlth-
erto associated with music only. For
this a "color organ has been devised.
The keys of the instrument are color
ed discs in front of powerful arc or
like light, and cause any particular
color or combination of colors to be
projected on screen. Each note on
the keyboard has its own color. An
octave represents the ordinary spcct-
rum, which has been divided up into
diatonic intervals or notes, the inter
walls being calculated according to the
rate of vibration at different parts of
the spectrum. As successive notes are
struck rapid fitting of soft trans
parent tints is produced on the screens.
At a recent exhibition various must
cal extracts were played simultaneous
lv on the color organ and on the piano
or by an orchestra, the effect being
novel and quite pleasing. Certain de
fects in the color combinations appear
ed, but it is possible that these may
be remedied in compositions especially
designed for color instrument.
They have been ploughing by electri
city in Saxony. Harvesting dynamo, to
do the work of the farm. TO water
wheel in the department of the Tarn in
France. and installing an electric plant
sufficient for three adjoining farms IN
Moravia. But in Saxony il was found