The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-12-17
SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY.

Observation-Disclosures. q
Flesh. Foods-Tho Soil as a Heat In
sulator-The, Earth With an Arti-
hclal Flora-W hite Lead by Elec-
trictty = Measuring Steam - An
Electric Crate ire-Yellow Glasses
Sausage Disease-Welded Aunt
num-Poisoning Through the Skin.
What has thus far been learned about
flesh foods has been collected in new
English work by c. a. Mitchell. It
corrects the serious but common mis-
take OF surprising that meat extracts
{. have any value as food, and points
out that Acbig expressly stated that
his extract Of meat was to be resard-
4 ed us sumulant like tea or coffee
and not us o food. While some pro-
ducts have eight or ten per cent Of
meat fibre added TO give some food
value, a large quantity would be need
ed 10. give the nourishment of an egg.
A matter OF much Importance Is the de-
lection OF diseased meat, which can
not always be done with certainty by
chemical means and the microscope
shows bacteria OF all forms in sound,
as well as diseased meat Certain
tests are to be learned by long prac..
tlce. \,
"A striking observation of the slow
ness with which heat penetrates the
soil has been made in Australia by Sir
Charles Todd. In o hot wave, lasting
from the It'll to the 18th Of February,
the temperature was above 100 degrees
on five days and above ninety degrees
on ten days. On the Sth the tempera-
ture at the Adelaide observatory was
lis degrees 1T three feet below tha
surface. and CTS degrees at eight feet.
On the 18th the readings were 1856 de-
grees and eS.4 degrees. respectively, an
increase In the ten hot days of only 81
degrees and 0.s degrees. Il
In this season Of prophecy the pic
ture of the future earth should include
the fora at a time when the native
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tb. n,ne tbIs Mate rises toward n hor-
tzont,i nost,iony openinc the valve to a
dag-ce corresponding to the amount of
steam passing. The quantity of
,,eam being used Is readily determined
This is condensed, and either permitted
to flow into a measuring tank provided
with a glass gauge, or 10 made to fall
upon 4 bucket wheel, whose revolutions
are indicated upon a counter arranged
to show the corresponding steam-aaw
through the main.
The luminous electric radiator of
pnvsinl, hns been aiIapted 10 serve as 4