The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-10-17


An Improved Insulator-Silk Colored
by Food-Petroleum Dyes-Plants
Under x-Rays.
A scientific investigation of muscular fatigue
has been begun by NJ. A.. NJ. Bloch. From ques-
lions sent to persons of many occupations, ne
finds that it is not the most used muscles that
are most subject to fatigue, but those that are
kept under tension although doing no work.
The back, loins and neck need more exercise to
strengthen them, the arms and legs less. The
baker becomes first tired In the legs; the wood
sawyer, in the calves of the legs or loins; the
road-digger, in the legs; the blacksmith, in the
back and loins; the young soldier, in the back
of the neck the horseman, In the thigh; the
artileryman, in the neck and loins; the imma-
ture violinist, in the neck; the practiced VIC
linist, in the left hand; the expert fencer, in
the right shoulder; the oarsman, in the calves
and insteps.
BY the aid of finely divided nickel and other
metals, petroleum has been obtained from acety-
lene and hydrogen by Sabatier and Senderens.
This has suggested simple explanation of nat
ural petroleum. Instead of assigning to 1t an
organic origin, it is only necessary to assume
the existence in the earth of alkaline earthly
metals and their carbides, which on contact with
water would yield hydrogen and acetylene.
Meeting nickel, cobalt and iron, the two gases
would give rise to reactions that would furnish
the various kinds of petroleum.
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The analine and soda works at Baden take
rank as the largest chemical factory in the
world. There are 421 factory buildings and $40
dwellings, aud the employees include 14s scien-
tiHc chemiska IS technical engineers, 3O5 clerks,
and more tnan 6,UUU worKIngmen. cLeaIn is Iur-
nished by 102 boilers for 252 engines of 2,160
horse power. The factory has 81 miles Of rail-
way track, with 3S7 cars, also freight vessel.
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Fish have been resuscitated after freezing at
12o or 14o f. below freezing point, but do not
survive zero temperature.
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0ae of the marvels of modern metallurgy is
the influence upon steel of vanadium in so small
a proportion as three to five parts per thousand.
The resistance of the steel to fracture is doubl-
ed its hardness is increased to an extraordinary
degree. and it is given the peculiar property of
acquiring its maximum hardness by annealing
at 70O0 to SOO0C. instead of by tempering. When
a working tool of vanadium steel becomes heat
ed, its cutting power increases instead of being
lost. A suggested explanation of the effect of
the vanadlum is its extreme avidity for oxygen,
which causes it to reduce every trace Of the iron
oxide that greatly lessons the strength of even
the best prepared tools.
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Natural protoplasm, the original cell sub
stance. is thought by Prof. A. l.. Herrera, a
Mexican biologist, to be composed of calcium
metaphosphate impregnated with various sub
stances absorbed or secreted under special os-
motto and electrolyic conditions. He has pre-
pared an artificial protoplasm, consisting solely
of calcium metaphosphate, and has obtained
acknowledgements of this in actual movement
In salt solution. The substance, containing air
cavities but homogeneous in structure, is strik-
ing like living cells in behavior, changing shape,
swelling, dividing, and forming plasmodium
on treatment with salt solution.
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The new boat of NJ. Turc, of the French navy,
designed to pass through the waves without roll
or pitch, is described combination of sub
marine and high platform. The submarine is
800 feet long, rs feet wide and IL feet deep, and
is TO contain boilers, engines and steering gear,
which will be submerged to depth of IL feet.
From the submarine will rise vertically two
foaters, IS feet apart, each 200 feet long and 10
feet wide.
The house fly with total life of about ten
days. develops in these periods Egg from lay
ing to hatchng one-third of day; Matching of
larva to first mott, one day; second mott to pu-
patton, three days. pupation to issuing of the
adult, five days.
The new material of Jorgen G.. Maardt, an en-
gineer of Copenhagen, is not only effective as a
heat and electric insulator but has the advan-
tage of being incombustible and insoluble in
hot or cold water or steam. The material is
made from cork dust or cork waste, peat dust
or smaff peat, or otter ike substance, which Is
saturated with water-glass. The resulting mass
is poured into molds, and is afterward boiled in
a solution of some chloride, like chloride of
calcium or chloride of magnesium. This treat
ment gives hardness. The mass is then washed
to remove any chloride of sodium that may
have formed in boiling.
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In French experiments silkworms have been
made to produce cocoons of almost any desired
color. AS the ordinary white, yellow or green
was known to vary with the food, this was COL
ored artihcially, and worms eating dyed privet
leaves yielded cocoons of corresponding red,
blue, or other color. Plants have been similar
ly colored by food, some blue French beans ex-
hibited in London few years ago seeming to
have resulted from some chemical popularity
of the SOIL
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Aniline colors, similar to those from coal tar
are now made in Russian factory from petro-
leum. They are free from troublesome con-
stituent of the coal tar dyes, aud do not turn
green with age. The factory is producing an
nually about $4,000 pounds of these dye-stufs.
which are mostly used for coloring cotton goods.
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While X-rays have usually shown no positive
effect upon the termination of seeds and other
plant phenomena, III. Seckt claims to have
shown that they have real influence upon cir
culating protoplasm. The movement quickened
in the isolated hairs of some plants, and leaves
about a foot from the tube began to close after
exposure for twenty minutes to the rays. The
youngest leaves closed first.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Baltimore County.
Deeds, mortgages, etc., received for record in
the Office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court for
Baltimore county:
Carrie B. Chandler and husband to 7. B. Fink.
G. N. Rice, trustee, ct al. to Frank L. Thomas.
VIM. ]. Bailey and wife to John L. Wood.
Margaretta Lenhardt to George @. Nau.
G. W. Hull and wife to J. A Kruemmel.
VIM. NJ. Plant and wife to Bernard Link.
Valentine Yamyska and wife to Jacob Katzen.
Joshua f. Cockey and wife to National Bank of
Cockeysville.
VIM. NJ. Plant and wife to VIM. Schluderberg.
c. b. Gerock to Nicholas Miller and wife.
III. J. Reese and wife to Elizabeth beaverton.
Elizabeth beaverton to George G. Burgerding.
G. O.Burgerding and VT. to Elizabeth beaverton.
@. g. Hill and wife to John H. Snyder. Jr.
Board of Benefcence of st. Johns M. e. Church
to George and Henry Kcssler.
Helen G. Marye and husband to Calvert Bank.
John Muhlbach and wife to Western Maryland
Tidewater Railroad Co.
PHILIPPINE Strung to same.
Matilda Smith to same.
A. L. Maynadier and husband to H. w. Wootten.
c. B. Gerock to George w. Newcomb.
S. /. Cockey and wife to VIM. H. Reisinger, Jr.,
and wife.
Geo. E. Waters and wife to VIM. d. Marks.
]. O. Snyder and wife to VIM. ID. Marks.
Ida A. Leonard and husband to Lottie Cohen and
husband.
sioners.
George Brehm to Mary Neisenderfer. trustee.
A. II. Callow, trustee, to Most Rev. Jas. Gibbons.
Caroline W. Schafer to Jas. Curtain and wife.
Catherine r. Cummings to E. NJ. Cummings ct al.
A. L. Price and husband to Percy G. Lee.
Ralph G. Lee and Sarah L. Brown to P. G. Lee.
Elizabeth r. Lee to Percy @. Lee.
Joseph Schamberger to Sophie Nelson.
John S. Baldwin to Jacob Hurline.
Robert 7. Paine, Jr and wife to ]. H. Twyford.
MORTGAGES.
F. L. Thomas to G. Frank Emmart, $25.
Same to John H. Loos, 900.
i. f. Ewing to Glyndon p. B. A., $3.50.
Mary Nash IN ClvndOn p r. A. S750