The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-01-06

temperature OF comets Is neieYPd 10
be 1900 times fiercer than that OF red
hot iron.
In a millogram OF bacteria there is
population five times as large as that
OF the earth, provided they are Of pure
culture. There are evidently other
worlds than ours.
At a recent conference of engineers
In London, the advantages of nickel
steel for ship building were urged, and
the necessity was pointed out Of find
ing new deposits of nickel and redue-
ing the cost Of its metallurgy.
Many Indian mounds have been dis
covered in Southern Indiana and have
yielded valuable finds. Stone axes
We're formerly plentiful In the farming
districts of that State. and were used
for door props. but they have now al
most disappeared. Arrow heads are
the only relies that are even fairly
plentiful.
Cinnamic acid. the alleged new cure
for consumption, IL white, crystalline,
odorless substance. formerly obtained
from the fragrant resin storax and oil
Of cinnamon, but now made from ben
zine. Its German dlseoverer claims to
have treated 400 cases with favorable
results.
Veneer-cutting has reached such per-
lection that single elephants tusk
| thirty inches long is now cut In Lon
don into a sheet of ivory 100 inches
| long and 20 inches wide, and some
sheets of rosewood and mahogany are
only about a fiftieth Of an inch thick
Zootherapy consists in transferring
4 a disease from man to some animal
4 and Is the converse of the medical
/ theory that animals convey disease to
man. This system of curing ills was
devised by Ferapl, Floientine. lie
mentions the case of a man suffering
from rheumatism who mad his log l.,
across his bed. The man recovered
and the dog died.
Two new planets have been discover
ed between Mars and Jupiter by NJ
Charlois, an astronomer of Nice. NJ
Charlois probably holds the record fol-
the number of planets he has discover
ed in his lifetime. His nearest rival Il
the Austrian astronomer, Herr Palisa
who has discovered eighty three, bu
he falls short of NJ. Charlois' record b,
three.
Electricity can travel faster than 200,
0Q0 NIL la I'm canand or. I'm, M ar word =
go around the world once, like mes
sages recently dispatched from al
American exhibition, 1t can make tn,
Journey eight times in one second
This would be at the rate of about 500
times IN about one minute, or 10000
times In twenty minutes.
The lightning specialist connecte,
with the government weather bureau
maintains that rods are no protection
and that most precautions taken b,
people to keep out of the path of a pos
sible electrical discharge are useless
The recent wonderful discoveries in re
lation to the nature of electrical fore
prove the worthlessness of the light
ming rod, but offer nothing toward dis
armine the thunderbolt.
pulque, the Mexican drink, mad
from the juice of the Agave America
ma, Is recommended as an efficient pre-
phylactiC and remedy for scurvy. d.
Peres of the United States army, is re
corded as the first to employ this bey
erage as an antiscorbutic. Pulque
an unrectified, acid wine, produced b
fermentation In aqua miel, the juice Q
the maguey, or Agaye Americana.
Is yellowsh white liquor, not easil
, preserved for long time,
Many observation-disclosures advocat
the medical treatment of psychicall
= affected brains. NJ. de Fleury, in hi
/. new book. entitled "L'Introduction
l. Medicine de fEsprit," seriously con
bats the old theory that only bodily III
are the province Of the practitione
/ and contends that disorders of the ps.
chic half of the human economy are q
/ numerous and important as those a
fecting the somatlc half. NJ. de Fleur
believes that systematic efforts shout
}. be made to render them amenable
treatment.