Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-08-07

night tinsing OF the mouth with a GAS
iu OF so grams Labarraques solution
diluted with ore lner OF watef, and
spray ing the nasal passages and throat
with an ordinary toilet atomizer contain
ing some such solution as gram OF
phtnolsalyl and three grams OF table salt
in ( o grains OF distilled water A lev
menthol drops may be carried IN the
pocket and dissolved in the mouth &C
casionally. Il is by such means, tIi,
author tells US, that many extreme y
sensitive persons keep the upper air
passages in an an iseptc Condi ion, and
through il they have been able 10 pass
the winter and rainy spring without once
taking cold
The pigment in the human skin has
been recent subj ct OF invesuga by
NJ Bruel, who finds the coloring matter
t. be distributed in patches IN the in
terror oi the epithelial cells, the tissue
between the cells beng colorless even in
black races. The pigment itself may be
quite black, or OF any shade up 10
light yellow. The difference IN the color
OF races depends upon this difference in
the shade OF the pigment, the dslribu-
ton o. the colorng matter beng the
probably the same.
What is claimed to be an iuc mbusti-
bic celluloid-a product greatly desired
is made by M. Asselot by mixing Sc
luton of one part Of cellu o d in len
OF ace'one with a solution Of two paris
| OF magnesium chloride in six OF alcohol.
When the paste is dried an uninilamma
Bile celluloid remains.
A laboratory for the study OF cave ami.
mails has been established in som sub
terranean passages lately found undtr
the Jardin DIES Plantes, Paris.
II was about twenty years ago-in
1877 or IS7S--that astronomers were
startled by the sudden appearance in the
equatorial belts OF Jupiter OF a marking
oil such unusual siz- aud depth OF color
that it has been known since as the Great
Red Spot. hougn remarkably pei sisteut
this spot has not been seen lately, its
place showing very light color. A re-
cent discuss on by the British Astronomi-
cal Association reveals tendency to re-
gard this spot, however, as permanent
feature OF the planets solid surface
kind oil Sahara desert or dry region, one
| astronomer commended, surrounded by a
| cloudy region, while another supposed it
to be an c evated portion OF the body OF
tue planet. Observations by Cassini iu-
dictate that the spot had betn seen two
| centuries ago, although no mention was
made OF its color. Some fifteen or
| eighteen years ago the whole equatorial
| IT gion oil Jupiter was of an ange col
or, with no white portions in it, though
IL l,.L
some years, and this tends to confirm
the idea that the unclo Ided planet is OF
| warmish hues OF varying depth.
The singular action OF certain metals
| and other substances ON Photographic
plates has been described to the Royal
| Society by Mr., w. J. Russell, Not only
do uranium salts and oxides act slowly
on sensitive plates in the dark, but the
properly is shared by meta lie zinc, cad
MUM and magnesium, as well as by CO.
pal, strawboard, wood some kinds ct
paper, and other substances. The
| action was at first thought to depend on
contact, then 1t was su1po ed feeble
emanations might be given off. N itler
| supposition proves to be true. however,
for zinc acts equ3lly well when not in
contact with the plate, and even when
vanished.
After trial of two years, Dr.. |. a.
Bridges reports that the best treatment
tor sprains known to him is the appica-
ton OF electricity once a day for FIVE to
| seven DAYS, with massage for five min.
ules twice a day.
The venom oil bees-claimed to be
remedy for cancer, snakebite, and other
ills--is now regularly collected by two
| Young pharmacists. The bees are held
singiy by the abdomen in small glass
tube or enraged together in bottle I'M
til the tiny drops oil poison are dis
charged.
Some interesting experiments on the
| effects Of weather on plants are given in
a little work by Mr.. John Clayton, an
| English noturahsi. Twelve bean-pl ants
We're placed 10 the ground SO that one
halt OF them would receive all tue SUI
snine OF the day while the others re-
NAMED continuously in the shade, and
the crop OF beans grown in the sunsh lie
weighed three times that produced in
the shade. The experiment was enc
tnued IN succeeding years. An seeds
| NNlS BldlNSA AI4N NpllNlNiDlS vi lIlG
| preceding year the differences between
| The Two classes OF plants progrs ssively
| increasing until in the fourth year the
| plants OF exclusively shade-grown auces-
tors lowered but failed 10 mature fruit
measurements OF the contraction Of
trees IN winter were also made. The
| girh of sycamore trunks were from two
to three sixleenthi Il an inch, and OF
oaks from five to six slKte enths of an
inch, less in February at a temperature
OF Fair. than in October, after groNIh
had ceased, and the trunks Lad expand
ed 10 their original siz On March 2, at Il
temperature OF go. The frequent Split
ting OF forest trees is due to TINS con.rac-
lion by cold.
| An independent electric light plant for
each car OF tram has been adopted by
more than tweny English Railways.
Each carriage is prov ded with a oyna no
and storage battery, the former b,ing
driven from the axe sni so arrang, d
that it is at rest when the speed OF the
train is less than 20 ki ometers (I3 miles
an hour, the battery then supplying the
current. One half OF all the lamps can
be switched on by the conductor. The
weight for eacn car IS $50 pounds. and
the apparatus costs $4,000
A new method of exhibiting the iea-