The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-17

end of September. This practically i'm
plies the period of the year during which
Spltzbergen is open to the sea. A good
deal OF interest attaches to the expedition,
Tor at present the interior of Spitzbergen
is not well known to US.
We hear, says Invention, that an enter
prlslng hrm, by name Messrs. Heidsieck,
are very anxious to negotiate with some
one who can hinder champagne corks
from absorbing the wine. Many improve
ments, it is said, have been made in corks
during the process of champagne manu-
facture, but We hear that the firm is so
anxious 10 obtain the ideal article that
they offer 100000 francs, equivalent to
f4000, for an invention of this kind, which,
however, must be simple as well as eff
fectual.
1t is suggested that the drying of fruit,
which requires great care and q certain
regulation of the temperature, offers a
promising field for electric heating. Fuel
for heating by steam is often expensive,
but fruit districts usually have abundant
water-power that could be used for driving
dynamos. The electric current would
prove serviceable in a variety of ways, in
addition to heating.
Slight tapping of the forehead over the
nose and eyes with ru bier hammer is
the remedy proposed by DR.. Schnee for in
cipient colds, with heavier tapping In
chronic catarrh The first contracts the
blood vessels, and the second dilates them
and favors secretion of mucus
The French, as Nation, are in advance
OF other peoples in their application of
chemistry to food. Many people cannot
drink chocolate at al but are able to eat it
with no harmful results. The French
recognize that chocolate, like bread, re-
! quires for its assimilation the chemical
action produced by mastication. The
little school children there may be seen
q N hoJr oil luz Df hrao
rolls and bar OF plain chocolate.
Professor Hajak of Vienna has declared
that those who smoke are less liable to
diseases OF the throat, such as diphtherla,
than non-smokers in the ratio of one to
twenty eight 1t is known that smoking
is positively forbidden in archaeological
laboratories because 1t hinders the devel-
opment of bacteria.
In horses, says Our Animal Friends, the
pulse normally beats forty times per min
ute in an OK from fifty to fifty-five times
and in sheep and pigs it beats seventy or
eighty times minute. 1t may be felt
wherever large artery passes over a bone.
In the horse, for instance, it is usually felt
in the bony ridge above the eye, or on the
cord which passes over the bone of the
lower jaw in front of its curved position.
The beating of the heart may be felt in
cattle over the middle of the first rib, while
it is ascertained in sheep by placing the
hand on the left side. Any appreciable
variation from the number of beats given
above may justly be regarded as symp-
tom of disease. If the pulse is rapid, hard
and full it is an Indication of infiamma-
ton or of high fever; if rapid, out faint
and not easily felt, loss of blood weakness
or low fever are indicated. If 1T is irregu-
lar heart trouble is probably the cause,
while brain disease is usually accompa-
MED by a slow pulse. The pulse is relia-
BILE index OF the health of an animal.