The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-01-10

tissue is produced which can take tn
the place of the natural skin
, and which, when laid ON the wound
! is entirely absorbed during healing
: process. Argonau.
Various Notes of Progress.
a new photograph of the heavens
shows GS. 900, 900 stars
In the warship Terrible of the Brit
ish navy there are eighty nine steam
engines, large and small
Tesla. the electrician, is reported tC
have made a discovery which will rev.
olutionize electrical traction.
Compressed air is coming to the
front as means of street car propul-
sion in France. Three Partisan lines
use it.
An authority on microscopy states
that the hair of woman can be dis
tinguished, by its constitution. from
that of man.
\ French inventor claims to have
discovered a method for condensing
petroleum into solid having, bulk
for bulk, about seventeen Dimes the
heating capacity of coal.
The manufacture OF razors by
machinery has now become fixed fact
in Germany, and the quality of the
/ article is said to compare favorabIy
with the best Sheffield product, the
process being also applicable TO scissors
making.
The Importance Of angle worms in
agriculture has been demonstrated by
Professor Wolley,. Of Munich. Peas,
beans, potatoes and other vegetables
were grown IN wooden boxes. with and
without worms, and in every case the
presence OF the worm gave an increase
of crop, varying from twenty five per
cent in the peas TO unity four per cent
in the rye.
A bit of steel flew into the eye of
Joseph Brown of Plantield, y. j.. the
other day, and imbedded itself so
deeply in the eyeball that it could not
be removed without cutting into and
destroying the eye. He was taken to
New York hospital, and the surgeon
held powderful magnet near the eye.
The bit of steel was drawn out of the
eye and the sight was saved.
The recent frequent raids of train !
robber proof mail car, which is now
being tried between New York and |
ST. Louis. The principal feature of |
the car is the absence of platforms
on which robbers stand while trying |
to gain an entrance to the car. The |
car is not armor clad, but the walls !
are made of great thickness SO that |
those inside are ensured safety from
pistol or rifle shots,
The astonishing and inhuman posi-
bility of building up living ANIMALS |
from parts of several animals has been
demonstrated by DIR. c. Born, Ger
man psychologist. The experiments
were made with tadpoles and other
larvae of amphibians Each of these
was cut in two, and different parts
were placed together IN different ways,
when some of them united, the hinder
more readily than the fore parts. Two
hinder parts, each with or without a
heart, united in twenty four hours,
the monstrosity living and growing for
A week or more.
The newly -discoyed coal deposits in
Newfoundland cover total area of
six by twelve miles and consist of
.hree distinct troughs, one of which
s ten miles long and mile wide.
The desposits are within forty miles ,
If the water and are quite adjacent {
o shipping passing through the St :
lawrence river. 1t is expected that
he deposits will greatly improve the !
,olony's future. II is estimated that {
he quantity of coal IN one trough is !,
nearly II, 900. GOO tons, and the others !
re supposed to be equally rich. The =
ind will do much to eytricate the col y
ny from its present embrarassments
f it can be worked advantageously. .
There has recently been computed y
n the basis of the latest scientific and d
tatistical sources accessible, d table -
{ the distribution of the people of +
he globe according to their relig e
1ns. The population of the earth Ii
; estimated at 1,500, 600, 600, of which A
Europe has 3S1, 200, 000 Africa, u, n
o. 600: Asia, 354, 600, 600; Australia, "
I, 80, 600: America, l33, GO, 600: to a.
al l,500, 600, 600. Among the leading -
aligions Protestant Christians num- d
er POO, 10000 Roman Catholic j
10, 600, 600: Greek Catho-
c Christians, los, 600. 900: total =
christians, 800 600, 600. Jews, 5000, ~
10: Mohammedans, $50, 600. 600 heath -
rs. Sl2. 900, 00O total non Christians, -
600, 900, 600. "
There is a great tract of agatized a
ood. at least 1000 acres in extent, df
! the Atlantic and Pacific railroad in Y,
rizona, which resembles an immense "
gging camp with huge trunks 81
rown about The largest are ITO is
eft in diameter. many of them sew
ed as evenly as though cut by a
W land the sections vary from disks
1e cart wheels, to logs 30 and more IA
ct long. Many of the petrified logs tn
I'VE been broten into fragments by ha
ton of the weather and by In ma
ans and tourists, and at every foot ms
II the traveller steps upon mosaic of
carnelian, agate. jasper. topaz, bo
yx and amethyst. A petrified trunk ri.
D feet long spans canyon. and is ca
own as the agate bridge. Curious +,
: hunters, manufacturers and specu- Al
tors are rapidly destroying its beau wi
IS, and carloads of the petrified I'm
'od are being shipped away.