Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-03-23

gas reduced by pressure to hardness
and rigidity possessed by no substance
known TO US
Work for the insane Is 9 special study
at the Villeiuif asylum, Paris. PAINTING,
carving sketching and even tattoong
are INCLUDED. and recovery Is often duo
10 the employment. In other cases The
condition of the patients mind Is mir
rored In the work done, aiding the physl-
clan I'm his study ~ the case more than
any amount Of discussion or consultation.
The possibility Of curing drunkenness
by suggestion has been widely recognized.
In one Of his recent experiments DR.
Paul Farcz, the French psych log st.
claims 20 have gone step turther, ana
to have effected a cure against tn pa
tents will and even without his knowl-
edge The patient, a healthy man o. 70,
whose Incorporate habits had continued
eight years still drank daily two quarts
~ wine and several glasses OF rum,
brandy absinthe. etc, III SPITE 81 me
fact that his wife had married him 20
effect a reform. Treatment began by sug-
gestion four or tive times per week dur
Ing natural sleep, and slow improvement
followed nj once, the fits OF lntoSlcatiln
ut first falling 10 about one mo IN
while the drinking steadily lesscned. Az
ter persevering year and half. the
cure was pronounced complete, only 1T
tic absinthe being taken once or twice
month. The mans lrritahility and vio-
lent temper had disappeared. he was
regular and contented worker, and was
gentle and affectionate In his home
The vnpors Of burning sugar, resins and
aromatic plants have been found by Nj,
Trlllat 10 contain considerable formic
aldehyde, thus showing the wisdom OF
the ancient custom Of burning these sub.
stances for distinction. Burning sugar
vapor destroyed such organisms as tho
typhoid bacillus In 20 minutes, other
germs. IN one to four hours.
Formic acid is the elixir Of strength,
OF Drs Clement and Hubbard. French
physicians This substance IL colOrless
iiquld found In the bodies Of ants, IN the
hairs and other parts Of certain catcrpi' :
lars. and IN nettles. and 10 its presence
nettles. bees and ants owe their sttngi <
powers It has a pungent smell, Is highly
corrosive and Is variously prepared by ar
tlncial means The new discovery calm
ed Is that small doses Of formic acid give
the human body an extraordinary IN
crease Of muscular strength, one deli
cate subject having been enabled to M
five times as heavy a weight rs before
taking, while DR. Hubbard himself Is
stated 10 have doubled his own strength
In two days and trebled II In five.
The so-callsd sacred running oxen
OF Ceylon are the smallest of the o'
family. and It Is affirmed that thei
height never reaches more than 8
inches.
The proposed new calendar OF Camille
| Flammaron. the French astronomer. be
| gins the year at the Vernal Equinox
| CMarch ~ and to every quarter gives
two months Of % days and one month OF
! 81 DAYS The Sf5th day, set aside as
| fete day is not counted In any month
I two such days following leap year. Th'
I object Of this plan Is to make the SAINT
! dates fall always on the same days OF thu
| week, and thus give a calendar that Il
! good for any year,
A glimpse into field Of vast posi-
! bilities was given at Berlin the othe
! day by DR. Emil Fischer, who frs
! produced artificial grape sugar ant
! uric acid, and Is the latest recipien
| Of the Nobel prize for chemical re
search. The work Of the syntheti
| chemist has brought into prominence
! the arnino-acids. and these DR.. Fisch
err pronounces the milestones on tn
road to artificial albemen, although
! Virchow pronounced this impossib
to build up on account OF the grea
number of compounds that enter In
TO It. When the amino-acids are free
from water the anhydrides greatl
resemble peptones, group o
bodies occurring in the stoamch
OF all carnivorous and herbvor
Gus animals, and not one o
which has yet been arthciall
produced The peptones result fror