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POPULAR SCIENCE.
Observations in the Atlantic give
from forty-four feet to forty-eight feet
ms the highest measured wave?. But
such heights are rarely reached, and, in¬
deed, waves exceeding thirty f;et are
very seldom encountered.
A writer in the St. Louis Globe-Demo¬
crat is looking hopefully forward to the
time when the walls, ceilings and floors
of our dwellings will be of malleable
glass as a period when approximate
cleanliness will he possible.
A Vienna engineer has just taken out
a patent for a new smoke-abating pro¬
cess. By means of electricity he pro¬
poses to condense the solid part of the
smoke as it arises from the coal, the
carbon thus formed falling back into tho
furnace.
Professor leclerc maintains that odors
we due, not to the emanations, as such,
of so-called odoriferous bodies, but to
the vibratory movement among such
emanations, due to processes of oxida¬
tion. Scent, on this theory, is analogous
to sound.
In drilling glass, stick a piece of stiff
clay or putty on the part where you
■wish to make the hole. Make a hole in
the putty the size you want the hole,
reaching to the g'ass, of course Into
this hole pour a little molten lead, when,
unless it is very thick glass, the piece
will immediately drop out.
Two French biologists have been mak¬
ing experiments in typhoid fever vacci¬
nation. Iu mice inoculated with cultures
of typhoid bacilli genuine typhoid fever
seemed to be produced, but iu mice in¬
oculated with broth in which the germs
had lived but no longer containing them,
subsequent inoculat on with the most in¬
tense typhoid virus was resisted.
Heavy machinery is now run by
artesian well power in mauy parts of
France, and the experience of the French
shows that the deeper the well the great¬
er the p-essure and the higher the tem¬
perature. The famous i.renelle well,
sunk to the depth of 1800 feet, and flow¬
ing daily some 500,000 gallons, has a
pressure of 60 pounds to the square inch,
the water being also so hot that it is used
for heating the hospitals.
The remarkable substance known as
poteline is formed by a mixture of gly¬
cerine, tannin and gelatine, to which
may be added the sulphate of baryta or
zinc-white; the resulting mass may be
eolored by the addition of vegetable
colors. While poteline is hot it can be
njolded, and whan cold it is susceptible
of every kind of manipulation, such as
turning, filing, boring, etc., and takes a
very fine polish.
Nearly twenty years ago Dr. Wilks
dire ted attention to the fact that a.
transverse furrow appeared on the nails
of the hand after a serious illness. Med¬
ical literature has since then contained a
few references to the subject; he again
brought logical the subject before the Patho¬
Society at its meeting on March
20, and related a remarkable case. In
that case the furrow was caused by three
days’ sea-sickness.
Of the present very limited number of
high observations, stations for there making meteorological
which are only two in Eu¬
rope exceed 3000 metres in height,
being about 10,000 and 11,003 feet re¬
spectively. Among those in this coun¬
try Pike’s Peak, which has an altitude
of 14,000 feet, exceeding thus, by more
than 3000 feet, any in Europe. These
great this heights continent are much more accessible
on than in Europe, there
beiug five in America where 11,000 feet
or more is reached by railroads built for
facilitating mining work.
By menus of recent improvements made
in the manufacture of rifles, as many as
one hundred and twenty barrels can now
be rolled iu an hour by one machine.
Thej are straightened cold and bored
with corresponding speed, and even the
rifling is done six automatically so that one
man sixty tending barrels machines can turn With out
the old or seventy rifling per day.
machine twenty barrel*
was about the limit of a day’s work; but
the improved machines attend to every¬
thing when after being once started, and,
the rilling is completed, ring a
bell to call the attention of the work¬
man.
A tall hall clock that used to tell the
time in General Israel Putnam's home is
•till in use in an office in Norwich, Conn.
It is seven feet five inches high, with a
case it of polished cherry, and looks as if
would last another century at least.
A hew-and cry usually follow the
small boy's acquisition of a pocket
knife .—Binghamton Leader.
CATCHING A PIG.
Valuable Points From One Who Has
Performed the Feat.
(From the Carson (Nev.) Appeal.]
There are many things in this world
that look comparatively easy, but which
trial demonstrates calls forth a man’s
most serious efforts. We have always
under the impression that a 60
pound pig could be grabbed by the hind
leg and carried off with comparative
by a man of ordinary size. This
iflea, however, has loosened its
Thursday on us during the last few days.
we ambled up to a pig
a member of the Manhattan Ball
getting on deck for a strike, and
for his hind leg. Just then he
to take a step we had not expected
to make, and the leg was not there
any more. Several more reaches were
made, but they all fell short, and what
the most surprising part of it, the
pig, which was so absorbed in its root¬
that he never looked up, always
happened to move just at the right time
to be missed. While regarding it as a
coincidence (for the animal did not
oven i»now w'e were there, we stole up
so coincidences quietly,) it was one of those annoying
that is not easy to account
'or. If we were writing a treatise on co
ineiilence we should give this a promi¬
nent place. Presently we got the ani¬
mal in a corner and, in order to bo sure,
‘i'll down on it bodily. Again one ot
hose infernal chance movements took
dace. The pig took two steps to gather
a potatoe, and we fell flat on the place
where the pig had been. Then he
looked round for the first time, and, per
civing ns lying there, grunted his as¬
tonishment and trotted away.
He was so astonished at seeing a man
lying there on his stomach, spitting
gravel out of his mouth, that he went
>if and stuck his head in a barrel to give
his b: ain a rest. Then we slid up quiet¬
ly and by a finely calculated erypto
naunis movement snatched him by the
hind leg. This was probably what
caused the barrel to rise up suddenly
and hit us on the nose. The wrestling
natch seemed to begin at this point,
first we got a col!ar-nnd-elbow hold on
the barrel and stood it on its head.
Then the pig got a grapevine look and
threw us over the barrel. Then we got
i Cornish grip on the animal and threw
him, and were in turn downed by the
'• arrel. Then we got a half Nelson,
Utreco-Komnn lock on the pig’s neck,
but it got out with a half turn and som¬
ersault and grabbed us by the seat of
the trousers. Claim of foul disallowed
by female referee on the front steps, on
the grounds that the pig’s tail had also
been pig, grabbed in the turn. Then the
with a new stylo of wrestling, here¬
tofore unknown to us, turned us a
somersault. If a pig blindfolded by a
ban-el could play this sort of games, it
oceured to us that there was no telling
what he might not do with his head
loose. This idea, and the feeling that
he might put his head out of the barrel,
or the barrel-head out, or get us out of
our head, had a most demoralizing effect.
Suddenly, by a coup de main act, we
stood the barrel on end, with the pig’s
hindquarters in the air, and thought
that we had the match won; but the
animal wiggled down in the barrel, and
as we lowered it on its side to prevent
weight annoying him any further he
an extraordinary movement. He
smashed out the barrel-head, and, as we
had him by the leg, dragged us after
him into the barrel. When we let
go, to prevent the nails in the barrel
from tearing our new clothes, we found
ourselves in the barrel and the pig in a
field about half a mile from the house.
A woman who had been sitting on the
steps to act as a referee, gave the match
to the pig.
M. Janssen, governor general of the
Congo Free State, does not think that
Explorer Stanley is dead, but is inclined
to the opinion that he may be on the road
to Egypt with Emin Pasha and the
Wadelai garrison.
An Offensive Brealh
Is most distressing, not only to tlio person af¬
flicted it he have any pride, but to those with
whom he comes in contact. It is a delica e
ma'.ter to sp akof, but it has parted and not catarrh only
friends but lovers. Bad breaih
are inseparable. Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Remedy
cures the worst cases,as thousands can testify.
Oatmeal and water is a refreshing heat. and
strengthening drink for men working in
The remedy for baldness recently discovered
by H. A. Fechter, of New Haven, Conn., seems
to be almost infallible. It is performing some
wonderful cures, and physicians are circular watching giv¬
its effects with much interest. A
ing the history of its discovery can be ob¬
tained free, by writing to tho discoverer.
Lass Yes, he loves you now, ’tia true.
with « yes of violet blue,
Lips Bonny as sweet as honev-dew,
little bride!
Will he love you as to-day.
When your bloom has fled away,
Wb ^Ceabid^ are Sray ’
. Wm
Yes, if it is the true kind it will survive all
the inevitable wastes and changes of life. But,
it is every woman’s des.re and uuty to retain,
as long as she can, the attractions that made
her charming keep her youthful and be.oved bloom in youth. No one
can if weighed down and suffering or equable from tem¬
per weakness and disorders. Lr. female
Pierce’s Favorite
Piescriptionis a remedy for these troubles.
Sold by druggists.
Human bones are shipped from Africa to
Australia to be used as fertilizers.
THE LIVER.
Works with the Stomach and the Stomach
with the Liver. You must have good bile
to have perfect digestion, and free liver ac¬
tion to have pure blood. Therefore beware
of a congested Liver, which is nothing more
than a thickened and clogged Liver. The
great reducer of congestion is Schenck’s
Mandrake Pills.
BILIOUSNESS.
An early and ugly form ofliver trouble. It
is blood poison. The Liver is not taking the
bile ingredients from the blood, Treat it
with Schcnck’s Mandrake Pills and make it
do so.
If you have neglected the laws of health too
long in and feel that your lungs are involved
any way, send for Dr. Schenck’s new book
on the Lungs, Liver and Stomach. It is sent
free, and will be of infinite service to you.
*“JSS Medicines: *■ MANDRAKE 5 KSr PILLS
are sold by all Druggists. Full printed di¬
rections with each package. Address all
communications to Dr. J. H. Schenck & Son,
Philadelphia, Pa.
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