The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-25
SCIENTIFIC.

A recent find of set of ivory pins, lit
tie gateway and three balls indicates that
the Egyptians played tenpins quite 5000
years ago.
The new Swiss aluminium steamer for
Lake Victoria Nyanza is forty-three feet
long, carries fifty persons and separates into
nine sections, no part weighing over $50
pounds.
An international scientific society, repre-
senting the chief scientific academies and
societies of the world, is favored by Lord
Lister and is being considered by the Paris
Academy.
A specific for seasickness has been sug-
gested by Epstein's studies on the influence
of color on blood circulation. Seasickness re-
suits from lack of blood in the BRAIN while
red causes rush of blood to the head and
the troublesome malady is cured by looking
through red spectacles, the effect being
aided by internal doses of calomel
In the curious experiments Of M. Oh. Wey-
her, the properties of magnets are repro
duced by combinations of worthless, in air or
in water. Two bars representing the mag
nets have each wooden axis, upon which
are fastened paper VaneS along it's whole
length, and when the bars are rotated they
attract or repel each other according as
the directions of rotation are the same or
opposite. The neutral zone also is shown
The bite of the Tsetse fly, so deadly to the
horse, OK and dog, has been found by a
committee of the British Royal Society to
affect other creatures as well. No remedy
has been found. This little inspect is play
ing a surprising part in the worlds devel-
opment, as, although man is strangely i'm
mune to the poison, large districts in At
RIGA notably the Limpopo and Zambesi
valleys, must remain uninhabitable until
this pest is destroyed.
One of the rarest of surgical triumphs has
been the giving of sight to persons who have
been blind until maturity, only about
eighteen successful operations of this kind
having been known, and third OF these
being credited to a single specialist-Dr.
Louis Fialla, of Bucharest. A German
writer has noted how these persons have
learned to see. On being given vision, they
have had to become accustomed to light
gradually, have been unable to recognize
familiar objects except by touch, have
known nothing of colors, have had no visual
idea of distance or of shape, and have been
utterly bewildered by their strange sensa-
tions.5 One man became completely helpless
in streets where he had walked without
difficulty while blind. 1t is concluded that
man must learn to see as he learns TO walk
the eve requiring great practice, and that
persons blind from birth can have utterly
no conception of the outer worlds appear
ance.
Though oil-making from fish refuse has
failed in France, fish guano has been made
in England to yield a heavy oil costing
somewhat over $1O0 ton. that is of espe-
ciaI interest on account of it's electrical in
sulating qualities. Many applications are
being found for this oil. 1t can be COM
pressed into slabs for dynamos, transform
ers and switch boards. and has been made
into pulleys, wagon wheels. railroad ties
coach bodies, and even works OF art Neither
temperature nor dampness affect it. Fibers
impregnated with the oil may be made to
supply an excellent substitute for hard rub
Der and NJ Andreoli notes that with ozoni-
zation OF the oil, as practiced during the
last few months, even more may be ex-
pected Ozone improves the FISH oils In color.
nudity and odor. IL may also be made TO
change them into a semi-huid condition,
and gives promise Of converting q cheap