The record-union., 1899-08-28

dogs suffering with hillary fistulae and
the results demonstrated that the
spleen is reservoir for the pigment
of the red corpuscles as they are nor
mally or abnormally destroyed. The
pigment is conveyed from the spleen to
the liver where it is eliminated as bile
pigment. If the spleen is removed the
pigment is distributed throughout the
entire circulation with the chief locali-
cation in the bone marrow and the bile
abnormally poor in pigment.-Poli-
clinico.
A tank of chlorate of potash recently
exploded in factory in Lancashire,
England, with disastrous results. AS
the substance is not combustible in it
self, although a powerful aid to COM
bustion under some circumstances, the
disaster, says "The British Medical
Journal" is not easy to account for.
Modern Inventions says a CORES
pondent of Popular Science" ARE
working out some unexpected and ap-
parently not closely allied results; thus
the electric car and bicycle are reduc-
ing the number of flies by taking the
place OF horses. Fewer horses, fewer
breeding places, fewer flies. Equilib-
RUINS and correlations are often sur
prising. Push down or pull up in one
spot and you get a result in an unex-
pected quarter
Two Californians have designed an
adjustable hanger for electric lights,
m r. = 1n6 in q
bracket, to be attached to the ceiling,
with spring mechanism on the reel
which winds up the wire by which the
lamp is suspended
In new Indian club a frame is
formed of spring wire, with a covering
of leather or other material, the handle
consisting of a coiled spring, which i'm
parts f1exibility to the grip and allows
the club to be swung with greater ease.
A Massachusetts man has patented
an antifouling coating for ships, con-
sisting of layer of paint, a layer Of
comminuted soft metal, a second layer
of paint and an outer coat of COM
minuted copper, presenting smooth
surface closely studded with bare par
ticles of copper
Penholders can be held in position for
writing without gripping them with the
fingers by the use of an Illinois mans
attachment, consisting of a piece of
thin metal bent to f1t the portion of
the hand between the ball of the thumb
and the base of the first finger.
A Washington man has designed
combination cane and umbrella which
comprises a hollow tube with internal
screw threads at each end, with the
central rod Of the umbrella carrying
screw-threaded sleeves which can be
fitted in the ends of the tube to hold
the latter over the umbrella.
The deepest hole in the earth IS at
Schladebach, near Ketschau, Germany.
1t is 5,735 feet in depth, and is for
geologic research only. The drilling
was begun in 1880 and stopped six
years later, because the engineers were
unable with their instruments to go
deeper
Toledo, O.-'"The days Of the under
ground cast and wrought iron gas,
water and steam pipes are about num-
bered," said Electrician c. W. Houston
of Boston. "Electrolysis is playing high
jinks with the iron pipes in all big
cities, and in a few years from now
the water pipes will become SO weak
that they will burst every time any
pressure is put on them on account of
irc onfrn6nd hU the action of no
powerful currents"
He says glass pipes will be used. In
many cities in Europe and this country
glass pipes are used in the streets for
conveying water, gas, oil and steam,
and they give perfect satisfaction.
There will be no electrolysis where
thera is glass, as glass is an almost alb
solute non conductor of electricity. In
side of the next five years investiga-
ton will show that electrolysis has
practically destroyed every high-pres-
sure water and gas line in every city
in the country, iron pipe will be re-
placed with glass pipes. and all danger
from electrolysis will have disappeared.
1t will be a hard blow on the iron in
dustries of the country, but will boost
the glass factories.
Il will venture the prediction that
seven years from now nothing will be
used for underground piping of all
kinds where high pressures are carried
except glass"
London Telegraph: The report Of the
Challenger expedition. a copy of which
has just been presented to DR.. Nansen
by his friends and admirers in Eng
land, is one of the most remarkable
publications ever issued, though, unless
great advance has been made since
the last report Of her majesty's sta
tionery office, it can hardly be said to
be financially one of the most success
full. The report shows that the office
expended on printing, paper litho-
graph, binding, ETC., nearly SO, 200, and
that in one way and another this en-
terprise has cost over SAC, 900. The
work is bound up in forty seven large
quarto volumes, containing u, $50 pages
of letter press, and 2662 photographic
and chromo-lithograph plates. Ac
cording to the latest account, the sales
Of the work, which had cost $40, 900,
had amounted to something under
$50. GOO That stationery office report,
however, 1t Is llle ldlcSL " UC
had. is dated as far back as 1890, and
business may have looked up a little
since then. At all events. here is one
more copy sold off.
The armadillo is a native of Mexico
and Central America. and in his wild
state feeds principally on rats, mice,
spiders, bugs and worms. In captivity
however, he will thrive on vegetarian
diet, devouring greedily boiled rice,