Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-04-12
VARIOUS TOPICS.

- The developed power that is in use,
and will be used, during this year. from
the Niagara river, is estimated at 29,226
horse power.-New York Electrical Re-
view.
Professor Kohler, imperial German
health officer has found symptoms of
tuberculosis in the body of every third
person that died between the ages of
Is and 6O.-New York Evening Post.
A balloon filled with automatic instru-
ments was sent up recently from Paris
and came down safely. The instrument
$4,000 feet, or over 10R miles. AT that
height the temperature outside of the
balloon was 102 degrees below zero, while
inside 1t was 10 degrees above.-San
Francisco Mining and Scientific Press.
DR.. E. ON. Kane of Kane, Pa, recon-
mends asbestos as a practical and useful
substance for surgical dressings. These
dressings, he says, may be carried in any
parcel, paper bag or hand satchel, may
be handled by dirty hands, spattered by
blood or any sort of filth, and yet can be
rendered absolutely aseptic in less than
two minutes by tossing them into the
Goals or into the blaze of an ordinary
kitchen stove.-New York Medical Rec
ord.
In connection with the recent report
of the New York state board of health
In support of the theory that an epidemic
of-typhoid fever was caused by oysters
infected by sewage at Port Richmond,
the following from Appleton's Popular
Science Monthly is of special interest:
"Oysters are found very prone to infec-
ton by micro-organisms, but the typhoid
bacillus will not flourish in clean sea-
water; and experiments seem to show
that this organism decreases in numbers
in passing through the alimentary canal
of the oyster. 1t seems possible, there
fore, that by methods similar to those
employed in the clearing basins of the
French ostreoculturists oysters previ-
ously contaminated with sewage can be
freed from pathogenic organisms or
their products without being spoiled for
the market"
The Hebrew conception of the world,
like the Arabic, inclines to glorification
of the nomadic life. The Hebrews refer
the origin of agriculture to a curse inn
posed by God upon fallen humanity
Ignaz Goldziher. -
A colporteur was recently arrested in
Galata district Turkey. for selling the
Epistle to the Galatians, on the ground
that 1t was a seditious document. The
Turkish authorities called for certifi-
cate of the authors death to assure
themselves that the document was not OF
recent origin.-Eclectic Magazine.
The popes encyclical of two years ago,
advising Catholics to read and study the
Bible, has not apparently had much eff
feet. The archiepiscopal book store at
Milan. probably the largest in Italy, does
not sell 100 copies a year of the Scrip
tures-New York Tribune. -
The following curious and instructive
commentary on the Worlds Fair parli-
lament of religions is furnished by the
London Guardian in its news from India:
1T is reported that certain Christian
converts from Hinduism have been sent
to America to conference.-the growing in
fuence of the Aryan religion upon the
minds of the Americans. 1t will be their
business to denounce the Vedas and ex-
pose the absurdities of Hinduism. Mil
waukee Church Eclectic IAnglican). J