The daily sentinel., 1903-12-15

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All Pennsylvania railway passenger
cars are 10 be lighted by electricity
from storage batteries.
A recently invented door lock has
the keyhole in the knob of the door.
and there is no other keyhole.
The assertion is made by naturalist
that nightingales devour the drones
of a beehive, but never molest the
workers.
BY the use of the antl-toxin treat
ment in diphtheria cases, of which
there were $500 last year in the Lon
don hospitals, the death rate from the
malady has been reduced in Il few
years from over thirty to eleven per
cent.
A plant that yields 4 sugar twenty
times as sweet as the ordinary cane
G beet sugar has been found i'll South
America. Its scientific name is Eu-
patorium rebandium; t is an herb that
grows eight to twelve inches high, and
its saccharine matter is not ferment-
able.
A Paris physician has noted the hour
of death of 2ssO parsonage of all ages
in a mixed population, and during
period of several years. The maxi
mum hour of death is from TO Il. IN.
H.. tn "a m N
the first case the mortality is forty
per cent greater than the average,
and in the latter six and one-half per
cent less. From 10 n. m. 10 3 p M.
in the day the mortality is not high.
and the most fatal hours are from 3 TO
& in the morning.
The river basin of the Thames. with
an area of only 5244 square miles,
sinks into insignifcance when COM
pared with the Mississippi, having
the largest drainage area of the rivers
of North America. amounting TO 1,24l.-
900 square miles, which, in its turn.
is exceeded by two river basins in
South America, namely the La Plata
with basin of 100000 square miles.
and the Amazon with basin of about
2250,OOO square miles, the largest In
the world.
In the Medical World. DR.. Moses de-
scribes novel method of removing
n fish bone crosswise from the throat.
The bone was too low to be reached
by any forceps at hand, and the au-
thor recalled a method of procedure
told him by an old doctor who had
been taught by boy, namely, to tie
n string in the eye of n smooth but
ton and have the patient swallow
the button, edgewise of course, and
draw the button back by the string.
This was done and the bone WAS
promptly dislodged.
An effort is being made in England
TO raise sufficient money for the erec-
ton of a memorial to John Kay. the
inventor of the fly shuttle" In every
loom before his time the shuttle was
passed by hand through the. warp from
one side to the other. Thy invention
about doubled the capacity of the
operation, and the innovation aroused
the ire of the weavers to such an eI-
tent that Kay was made the victim
of mob attack at one time, and his
home and property destroyed. He died
in poverty, and the location of his
grave is unknown.
The authorities of the biology depart
ment of Missouri University have es-
tablished a rat farm. Pure white rats
will be used entirely for breeding, and
a part of the biology building has been
especially equipped for the rearing and
care of the rodents. The rats are to
be used for experiments with poisons
and dissecting. The white breed has
been found the most desirable. Cats
were formerly used instead, but the
towns supply of felines has been ex-
hausted. The students, under cover
of darkness. enticed them away from
the Columbia households and concealed
them at the university.