Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-12-31

Il temperature OF 95 degrees having
been observed In the center for sew
eral days. Such heat, In a moisture
laden and impure atmosphere. could
be endured but flve hours day for
two days in three, and so prostrating
was the labor at Mont Cents and st.
Gothqrq that the physician who at
tended the workmen ten years reports
the number of invalids to have been
as great US 60 to the 100. Stranger still
was the appearance of tropical dis
ease--due TO intestinal parasites--that
is known only in the hottest regions
of the earth. Even greater rock tenn
peratures are expected In the great
tunnels projected in recent years--those
of the Simplon. st. Bernard and Mont
Blanc-experienced engineers predict
ing that under Mont Blanc heat con-
siderably greater than 100 degrees. pos
sibly above 1875 degrees. will be reached.
Improved methods of ventilating, cool
ing end working will all contribute,
however, towards overcoming the diff
cultics of working.
Attitudes are calculated from bar
ometric records according to formula
worked out by Laplace. 1t is important
to know how accurate this formula IL,
and to test 1t Cailletet has devised n
Photographic camera, to be carried on
balloons, for recording at the same in
slant the height Of the barometer and
the actual height of the balloon as
SHOWN by the distance apart on the
Photographic plate of prominent OBJ
Jects on the earths surface. The APP
paratus consists of prismatic box,
with lenses on the upper and lower
faces. between which band of sem
sitized cellulold is moved by clock
work and exposed at regular intervals.
one lens gives picture of the seem
cry below, the other of the needle of
the barometer: and in recent ascent
to mile and half 90 photographs
were obtained.
A system of q hundred electrically
operated clocks at Brussels, Belgium.
has been In use, with some modinca-
lions since April. 1857.
Ozone. on account of its powerful
oxidizing action on organic matter,
may play considerable part in puri-
Tying the air. II may not be generally
known, the London Lancet points out.
tnat very simple and effectunl way
of bringing ozone into the house CON
sists in first suspending moist linen
sheets In keen, dry wind. and after
ward hanging them up In the house
The air In the room will thus become
considerably charged with ozone, and
us presence will be easily detected by
its peculiar smell, while moistened
starch iodide paper will instantly turn
blue. Why ozone is accumulated in
wet clothes In this way Is not quite un-
derstood: but It may be due to the rapid
passage of the oxygen in the air over
large wet surface. 1t is not i'm
probable that this interesting phenom-
enon has much to do with the cleansing
of our linen articles of clothing. The
smell Of ozone In big laundries on
bringing not quite dry linen in from
cold, dry air is almost more than is
A singular dlscovery'was lately made
by nrm OF Belfast contractors who
mad undertaken to restore the leaning
spire of an ancient church at New
market. County Cork on attempting
to take down the spire, it was found
that the stones of which II was built
We're Theoretically bound to one another
with combination Of molten lead and
sand. which rendered 1t absolutely i'm
possible to separate one stone from
another, the whole spire beng, as 1t
We're, one solid block The whole build
ing, in fact, had been erected with no
mortar except the mixture of lead and
sand. As the spire could not he taken
down. 1t was ingeniously moved entire.
and brought back to its original per-
pendicular position.
The first English dry dock. late re-
searches by MI. Max Oppenheim show
was ordered by Henry VII in 1i95 for
Portsmouth and was finished in 1896
without foreign assistance although
dry docks appear to have been already
in use on the continent. The dock,
which was large enough for three
masted ships, was of wood, and cost
f193!
case of pulmonary tuberculosis in
n goat upsets the belief in the immuni-
ty of this animal, and shows that the
milk Of goats should be used with the
same care against infection as that of
cows.