The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1898-01-06

AS far as calculations can decide, the
temperature Of comets is believed to
be 1000 times fiercer than that of red
hot iron.
In a millogram of bacteria there Is a
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 Il Of find
ing new deposits of nickel and reduc-
ing the cost of its metallurgy.
Many Indian mounds have been dis
covered in Southern Indiana and have
yielded valuable finds. Stone axes
were formerly plentiful in the farming
districts of that State, and were used
Cor door props, but they have now al
most disappeared. Arrow heads are
the only relics that are even fairly
plentiful.
Cinnamic acid, the alleged new cure
for consumption, is a white, crystalline.
pdorleSs substance, formerly obtained
from the fragrant resin storaX and oil
pf cinnamon, but now made from ben
zine. Its German discOverer claims to
have treated 400 cases with favorable
results.
Veneer-cutting has reached such per
lection that a single elephants tusk
thirty inches long is now cut in Lon
don into a sheet Of ivory $50 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
a disease from man to some animal,
and is the converse of the medical
theory that animals convey disease to
man. This system of curing ills was
devised by Ferapi, a F1orentine. He
mentions the case of a man suffering
from rheumatism who made his dog lie
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 for
the number of planets he has discover
ed in his lifetime. His nearest rival is
the Austrian astronomer, Herr Palisa,
who has discovered eighty-three, but
he falls short of NJ. Charlois' record by
three.
Electricity can travel faster n2OO,-
600 milesin a second, or, in other words,
go around the world once, like mes
sages recently dispatched from an
American exhibition, it can make the
Journey eight times in one second.
This would be at the rate of about 500
lines in about one minute, or 10000
times in twenty minutes.
The lightning specialist connected
with the government weather bureau
maintains that rods are no protection,
and that most precautions taken by
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 force
prove the worthlessness of the light
ming rod, but offer nothing toward dis
arming the thunderbolt.
Pulque, the Mexican drink, made
from the juice of the Agave America
IA, is recommended as an efficient pro-
phylactic and remedy for scurvy. DR..
Peres, of the United States army, is re-
corded as the first to employ this bev-
erage as an anti-scorbutic. Pulque is
an unrectiied, acid wine, produced by
fermentation in aqua MEL, the juice of
the maguey, or Agave Americana. 1t
is a yellowish white liquor, not easily
preserved for a long time.
Many psychoneurologists advocate
the medical treatment of psychically
affected brains. NJ. de Fleury, in his
new book, entitled Naturalization a la
Medicine de PEsprit." seriously COM
bats the old theory that only bodily ills
are the province of the practitioner.
and contends that disorders Of the psy-
chic half Of the human economy are as
numerous and important as those at
fecting the somatic half. NJ. de Fleury
believes that systematic efforts should
be made to render them amenable to
treatment.