The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-11-21

evidenced by the epidemic which occur
red in this State in 1885, when feces,
after being frozen all winter, caused an
epidemic coincident with the spring
thaw In regard to the use of cold as
a germicide, however, DR.. Ravenel con-
cludes that it cannot be relied upon so
far as any degree of temperature thus
far obtained with our present means
of application, is concerned.
Dr. Ravenels announcement seems TO
have caused some surprise, which was
not lessened when he stated his Dei1eI
that after zero Fahrenheit was reached
100 degrees more would make no dill
ference. To quote again:
"Dr. Stengel expressed himself as sur
prised that as long as liquid air is de-
structive to more highly organized It's
sue, it does not affect the organisms.
for while a globule of liquid air may be
held in the hand. owing probably to the
formation of a layer of DIR under ten
sion (vapor), which protects the tissue,
the length of time to which the organ
isms were exposed excluded this phe-
nomenon. 1t also seemed likely that
cold would be injurious to the organ
isms, inasmuch as ice to the chest in
pneumonia is believed by some, though
ridiculed by others, to do good, and pos
sibly does SO by retarding the pneumo-
cocus, which is sensible to cold.'
The disposal of sewage, where cir
cumstances allow, by direct application
to the ground as fertilizer is advo-
Gated by the Hospital 1t says: "A
Chinaman, careless of esthetics, or per-
h, ind n1 oil
carries the stuff in bucket and digs
it straight into his bit of land. We, on
the other hand, are swayed by senti-
ment; we like, at least, to appear clean;
so we mix the stuff up with many times
| it's bulk of water, and pour it into more
or less leaky drains, and let it wander
mile after mile rotting under ground
till it reaches the suburbs, when, if the
local government board has it's way, we
at last do just what the Chinaman did
at first hand-we put it on the land,
and with it we grow vegetables or
grass, or whatever we can make grow
/ by help of such diluted stuff. No doubt,
by this process the dwellers in the town
are saved some annoyance to the senses
but the end is the same, and we but
do by aid of many drain pipes and other
appliances what the Chinaman does
with a simple pail
The following list shows the duration
of the longest day in various places all
over the world: New York has, so to
say, the shortest longest day, which is
/ about fifteen hours long; while in Mon
treal it is sixteen. London and Bremen
each bask in a sixteen and half hours
length of day, closely followed by Ham
burg and Dantzig with thirty minutes
more. The longest day in Stockholm
lasts eighteen and one-half hours; but
both ST. Petersburg and Tobolsk,
Siberia, go one better, with a day of ex-
actly nineteen hours-and their shortest
five hours. June DIST brings to Tornea,
Finland, a summers day nearly twen-
ty-two hours long-and Christmas day
two and half hours only. The fore
going lengthy days, however, are easily
left behind by Wardburg, Norway
which boasts of day lasting without
break from May LIST to June 22d; but
even this is surpassed by Spitzbergen
where the longest day is something like
| three and one-half months
A. H. Verrill, writing in Popular
Science" describes an American spider
which haunts evergreen trees and
catches its prey by means of a kind of
lasso. The web of this spider is TRAN
gular in form, consisting Of four longi-
tudinal lines and large number of
cross fibers connecting them. Two cor
ners of the triangle are attached to
twigs, but the other corner, which ter,
inmates in a single thread, is held by
the spider perched on a neighboring
twig. When fly strikes the web the
spider loosens his hold and the elastic
threads instantly entangle the victim
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