The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1901-05-07


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/ ana graduated, ana scaled hrrmetle-
ally IN glass tube attached o. the
I telephone magnet. 20 ne 10 lie hort.
l zontally when the telephone IL pu, a.
| the ear.
when Vasolne IN Injected into ilv.
INK animal Tissues, il Ia unaterabis
ana does not irrltate. The remarkable
suggestion is therefore made by Dr
Gernusy, OF Vienna, that 1t be used
for raising depressed scars or fiattened
features, or tlling out the place OF
bones partly removed, and for a va
r.ety of similar purposes. white ster-
ili1ed Vaseline, composed Of solid and
liquid parafline and melting at 40 de-
Erees Fahrenheit Is the material rec
commended.
Antwerp archives show that an au-
tomobile, or mechanical carriage, was
given the city In 1919.
1t has been thought that the electric
waves used in wireless teiegraphy
/ travel through earth and rock, as well
as air, and one expert has even de-
clared that they are chiefly propagated
through the earth. NJ. Lagrange has
lately shown, however. that they can
not affect n receiver buried eighteen
inches deep.
The average duration of life is e.ti-
mated to have been increased in the
last half century at least three years
in men and three and a half years in
women. DR.. Parker of London, finds
that smallpox has been reduced 90 per
cent: deaths from fevers in general
81 per cent; deaths from diptheria, 50
per cent, and deaths from phthisis. 4s
per cent. Antiseptic surgery has less
ened the mortality from operations 20
per cent.
An interesting electric-light buoy is
now moored in the North Sea, before
Busum, in Holstein, to give warning of
the dangerous sands at that place Even
a slight motion of the waves generates
sufiicient electricity for illumination, and
clock-work in the interior regulates the
half-minute lighting and extinguishing.
rests of this automatic light have prov
en- so satisfactory that the extensive use
of such buoys is predicted
Some curious botanical experiments
made at the geological laboratory at
Naples are reported by Hans Winkler.
A fiowerless aquatic plant that grows
normally with it's roots in the sand,
and leaves in water, was inverted,
specimens being placed with the leaves
buried in the sand and the roots float
Ing In the water in strong light The
roots changed to stems and leaves, the
buried parts becoming roots.
In the manufacture of acetylene gas.
calcium hydroxide is formed to the
amount of about 40 per cent Of the cal
cium carbide used. This py-product
proves to be a desirable substitute for
caustic lime in agriculture. being espe-
cially useful in vine fruit and grain
growing. and having the advantage of
being less readily transformed into car
Donate. Calcium hydroxide also finds
use In making chloride of lime and in
soap factories and other industries.
Seasickness is now a subject of scien-
tifc attack. A league has been formed
IN Paris to investigate it fully, and an
early plan is to treat 100 soldiers subject
to seasickness in one way and another
100 by another method. 1t is expected
that useful conclusions may be reached
from the results.
Instead of the rare oxides from
which incandescent gas nantes are
usually made, Herr II. Helmcke, OF
Hamburg, forms very satisfactory
NANTES from solution of lime with a
little alum or borax. Such NANTES are
claimed to splinter little, to be very
tough to resist heat, and to give a
good light in a water-gas flame.
A new method of cleaning foul casks
consists in first washing and steamina
and then blowing ozonized air into the
bung-hole When very foul the casks
are first chemically cleaned with sodium
or magnesium hypochlorite
solution, sometimes with little acid to
Tree the chlorine, and are finally wash
I'd thoroughly with ozonized water. The
Poulest casks are made sweet.
For improving the sanitary condition of
heaters, DR.. Hanriot of the Paris Acad-
'my of Medicine suggests easily cleaned
woodwork, linoleum flooring
hat can be washed and daily-changed
covering of fine gravel, better natural
'entilation and more sunlight. ard leath-
recovered chairs.