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r HICKOHY i?RESS: O0T0BEJ, 17, 1895. jriEN'TIFIC, MISCELLANY i3iple Wter-Ttt Q Canines lor Pump- log-Consumption Prevention avnd Con- 0! irnptlon 'ur 1 ne mn CJl,nK uncana Averag' .Marching Endurance Marriages ad Birth la Europe A New Gaslight-- Energy Expended by the Pianist. -iuiple test for the sewage con t&iaiiiHtion of water, recommended by the Iowa Board of Health, it, to add 4 drops of permanganate of potash solu tion t a las of the water. After udlu-J 2 hours, the rose color im parted by the permanganate fill have ebanl to a dull yellow if decompos nz oriinic matter is present in a dan-gerou!-"jiiuount, and completely dis appear in time if the decomposed, or-"pnnie-.iuatteJ is in very large quantity. If the proportion of impurity is small, the ne color may fade only slightly. good method of quickly determin ing the quality of drinking-water is to (jj,.olve 12 grains of caustic potash aIJd ;i grains of permanganate in an ounce of distilled water, and add 1 or 2 drops of this solution to a glass of the wafer. If a decided color is. im parted,, the water may be used, but it thouM be rejected as probably dan--f-rous if the color immediately dis- .'llltM'itT. 1 An interesting installation of gas eii-ines the lirst of the kind has bet u made at Sunderland, Eng. Several Tangye engines have been couple direct, without intervening, belting or gearing, to centrifugal pumps for emptying a graving dock, aii l the results are said to have been thi: tar highly satisfactory. Each pump, of which there are several, can diM'harge hourly 2600 tons of water and eaelt engine indicates 120 horse power. They have a self-starting at tachment. " Tiie work of the British Royal Com mission on tuberculosis leads to the belief tlmt, by carefully boiling milk, properly cooking meat,, and totally destroying all sputum from infected persons, the spread of. tuberculosis will be gradually but surely checked in the course of time. . A new smoke consuming device for furnaces is an attachment automatic ally feeding a quantity of oil to . the fire .when fuel is added. As the oil burns it consumes the smoke, the in jection of oil being adjusted at will to the amount of smoke expected at each fresh charge of fuel. The use of petroleum for consump tion is not a new idea, as it was sug p'Med spine years ago by a French physician. Dr. Pel Ussier, of Rouma nia, was led to employ the crude oil in hi practice by noticing that work-iii'-n in petroleum works at Campina are i ver . alTected with pulmonary tiiliert ulosis, and lie has now reported the experience of two years. The pe trnieiim is Minply freed from earthy matter by filtering through paper, md enclosed in capsules to avoid creating an aversion to it on account of its unpleasant odor. The results of ti e treatment are claimed to be sur prising. The coutrh ceases, the sweats disappear, the appetite and sleep re turn, the lesions of the lungs recover. Thr breath acquires the odor of pe troleum, but digestion is not disturb ed. Treatment through the stomach supplemented during the day by treat hing air passed through petrO- JeUlIl. M rPii rL-lull nina hoinfr od for the purpose. Efforts to ad Hiini.ter the remedy by injection were unsuccessful. Cannibalism wai discussed, by the anthropologists at the recent meetiutr of the British Association, where it s-Mated that nearly all the race in the Congo basin carry on an exten ;ve trade in human beings as food. The different tribes, according to ViHtS. L. Hinde, have various and horrible methods of preparing the rMh for eating certain tribes of the Banpvia race, for example, having ad mitted that they break the arms and of their victims and then keep bodies alive in water for two or llrv days to render them more pala-Ub'p- Huiuan flesh, contrary to unnon belief, is never eaten raw by the nero savage, nor for religious or fc VIrfctitious reasons. In the country ' the Baletela, even parents are eaten ' their children as old ages approach- Hud neither gray haired, halt, banned nor blind persons are to be kieriuients by some Berlin medi ea5 indents have shown that the full equipment of the German in- axtry soldier, averaging TO pounds. tiot be carried on a day's march of miles, when the temperature is 70 d'res F- without such fatigue that & City's rest should follow. The effort uH not be repeated day after day ' out injury to health, the greatest Wei k'ht that could be safely carried 25 miles daily for a considerable time, in ; ordinary summer weather, being 60 ! pounds. 1 The facts given beloV, complied by M. Chervin, were presented to the French Anthropological Society at its i recent Broca meeting. Of 1000 people i of both sexes, over 15 years of age, the I per cent that marry is as follows: Hungary, 91.6; Germany, 53.0; Eng land and Wales, 52.6; Denmark, 52.0; Austria, 51.3; Italy, 50.1; Finland, 49.2; Holland, 49.0; France, 45.8; Belgium, 41.9, Greece, 41.6; Scotland. 40.0; Switzerland, 40.8; Ireland, 23.0. The number of legitimate living children born of 1000 married women is; in Germany, 270; Scotland, 269; Bel gium, 265; Italy, 251; England and Wales, 250; Austria, 250; Sweden, 240; Ireland, 240; Switzerland, 236; France,' 163. Illegitimate children: Germany, 265; Scotland, 199; Belgium, 198; Italy. 246; England and Wales, 121; Austria, 444; Sweden, 444; Ireland, 41; Switzer land, 102; France; 167. In its mar riages France falls a little below the other principal countries of Europe. In its legitimate births it is at the foot of the list, and even taking into ac count its illegitimate births, it is far behind Germany, Austria and Italy in point of increase of population. A means of increasing the illuminat ing power of tfas about 15 times is claimed by M, Denayrouze, a French physicist. A spherical metallic body and a mantle capable of being raised to incandescence are included in the upper part of the lamp, and in the body is fixed a tiDy motor, which works a ventilator and which receives current from a couple of small accu mulators. The electricity energy re quired is said to be only i volt and 1-10 amphere, and this is sufficient to force air through the mantle and give the flame remarkable brilliancy Lamps of 800 candle-power have been made. A German composer has calculated that a minimum pressure of the linger ota quarter of a pound is needed to sound a note on the piano, and that at times a force of 6 pounds is thrown on a single key to produce a single effect. Chopin's last study in G minor has a passsage, taking 2 minutes 5 seconds to play, that requires a total pressure estimated at 3 full tons. It is not strange that pianists develop wonder ful strength of the fingers. Two French experimenters have caused argon and helium to combine with magnesium vapor under the pro longed action of the silent electrie dis charge. Argon united with platinum under similar conditions. SECRETARY HERBERT. Au Address at Hontgomery, Ala., on the Cur rency Question. Secretary of the Navy Herbert spoke at Montgomery, Ala., one night last week to a large audience. His subject was the currency. Secretary Herbert in opening, de clared that the question whether or not the United States government ought to undertake the free and in dependent coinage of silver is a ques tion "we have had before us since the great campaign of 1874, when we took issue with the carpet-bagger who was then dominating our State, and on the conclusion arrived at may depend the future supremacy of the Democratic party in the United States for years to come He then said that he approached the question as a bimetallism He was also a Democrat who had always worked in harness, but the currency question was one to be decided on business prin ciples. He asserted that the "silver dollar of our fathers," t-o much spoken of, was never seen by those saine fa thers to any extent, for it did not cir culate. He then drew attention to the steady fall in Confederate money from the time it became abundant The talk about a country having a money system of its own entirely inde pendent of the outside world, passed his understanding. The law of 1834 practically made the United States a Koid country. It was this generation tv.f had turned to silver. Within the last 17 years the United States had added to their circulation the stuien dous sum of $349,700,000 of silver cur rency, and had now more silver per capita tbau any silver couutry in the world, and more silver in proiortiou to gold than any gold-using country. He frankly acknowledged that he had been a silver man, votiug for free coinage. Bat men were not infallible and had - the right to change their opinions whenever they saw cause. If vour children are subject to croup watch for the first symptom of th dis ease hoarseness. If Chamtrlaiifs Cough Remedy is given a soon as the child becomes hoare it will prevent the attack. Even after the croupy cough has appeared the attack can al ways be prevent, d by giving this rein ed v. It is also invaluable for colds and whooping cough. For sale by U. j M. Royster, Druggist 40-4 1 ! French troops have taken the capi tal of Madagascar. An American firm has secured the contract for lighting the Mexican Na tional palace. Congress, at its approaching session, will be asked to recognize the Cubans as Belligerents. Warrants Tor conspiracy have been issued against the Secretary and man agers of the Florida Atheletic Club. United States Senator Warren, of Wyoming, says the only hope for sil ver is in a fight within the Republican party lines. The powers united in demanding of T urkey an iniquiry into the killing of Armenians and the release of innoceDt prisoners. Several of the passengers on an elec ric car held up in a Chicago suburb by robbers were badly, though none fatally, hurt. Ex-8peaker Crisp, in a letter to a friend, says he will probably make sev eral speeches in Georgia in behalf of free silver coinage. A New York crank applied at the White House for the position of "Pres- ident's boy." He was promptly land ed in the police station. The United States war vessel Marion has been ordered to Chili for the pur pose, it is said, of enforcing claims of several American citizens. Mexicans are greatly excited over rumors of a Protestant conspiracy to blow up the church in which is the image of the Virgin Guadaloupe. Prof. Lorain L. Langstroth, far twenty years a professor in Yale, and for fifty years a minister, died of apop lexy while delivering a sermon at Day ton, O. In the speech at Elizaethtown Sen ator Lindsay prophesied that if Ken tucky' went Democratic this time the Democrats would win the Presidency in 1896. German experts are in this country trying to find out the methods of tan ning our leather, the importation of which into Germany is growing to enormous proportions. The last of the famous Jungle stories is told by Rudyard Kipling in the Cosmopolitan for October, and the subject is "How Mowrgle Left the Jun gle Forever." '"It is the last of the stories, because there are no more to be told," Orders have recently been placed by the Penn. Railroad for 40,000 tons of steel rails, the Baltimore and Ohio 20,000 tons and the Southern 25,000 tons. Altogether 150,000 tons have been ordered by the various lines for delivery in November and December. The prices paid were $8 per ton for Pennsylvania mills and $29 for Chica go. It is likely the price will go up to $30 next year, and this is a certain in dication that the railways intend to get more for carrying freight. 11 Troubled with Rheumatism Read This. Annapolis, Md., Apr. 16, 1894. I have used Chamberlain's Pain Balm for rheumatism and found it to be all that is claimed for it. I believe it to be the best preparation for rheuma tism and deep seated muscular pains on the market and cheerfully recom mend it to the publjc. J NO. G. Brooks, dealer in boots, shoes, etc, No. 18 Main St. 40-4t ALSO READ THIS. Meciianicsvillk, St. Mary County, Md. I sold a bottle of Chamberlain's Pain Balm to a man who had been suffering with rheumatism for several vears. It made him a well man. A. j. McGill. For sale at 50 cents per bottle by O. M. Royster, Druggist.40-4 AN ILL-fATED COUPLE. Mrs. Amelia Rives ChanUr Has 5eured a Divorce. Mr. W. G. Maxwell, of the law firm of Chanler, Maxwell & Phillip, of New York, is authority for the statemrnt that a decree of divorce, on the ground of incompatibility, has been granted Mrs. Amelie Rives Chanler. It is stated thre was no opposition to the decree, and that nothiug iu the plead ings or the prteeediug ivllected on ei ther of the iKirties. Mr. Maxwell positively declines to give any further information. Amelie Rives Chanler, while simply Amelie Rives, suddeuty burst on the world with a feverish volume called Th- Viuiek or the Dead." This was about eleven Jears ago. The book was well written, fairly plotted, but suc ceeded rather for the flavor of fever in it than of any merit, whether of the story itself or the le of the English employed in telling it. Altogether, it was not of the sort a cold or careful judge would describe as "healthful literature." " Chanler is related to the Astors. GENERAL NEWS. flAHONE OF VIRQLMA. Not aa P. P. V.. Bat a Plain PUbian A Good Genera! aod That Was AIL Whenever a man who is or has ben prominent becomes ill or dies the country is at once flooded with mis statements concerning his life. The case of Ex-Senator Mahone, of Virgin ia, is the latest striking instance. From the time he was stricken down with paralysis the misstatement mill has been steadily grinding. One prominent newspaper writer stated over his own signature that Gen. Ma hone and his family were blue-blooded, F. F. V. aristocrats, and that so long as he remained in the Democratic party he was rich and prosperous in business, idolized for his war record. and his family the pets of the highest society, but that after he became a Republican he and his family were so cially ostracised, and his business dis criminated against until he was grad ually driven to bankruptcy. About the only true thing in the whole arti cle is what is said of his war record. The people of Southampton county. Virginia, where Gen. Mahone was born, and where he has relatives now living, would smile at his being called an aristocrat, ana oiu citizens or Petersburg where he has lived since the war would do likewise upon being told that the Mahones ever were social pets. Mahone was plebian born. He was a civil engineer and helped to build the Norfolk and Petersburg railroad, which was a part of the A. M. &i O. system, of which he became president after the war, at a salary of $25,000 a year. He came out of the war ioor, as he entered it, but his war record made him a railroad presi dent, and the boss of the Democratic party of Virginia, which position he maintained until forbearance ceased to be a virtue. About the time his control of the Democratic party was broken he also lost his railroad job. Then came his organization of the Readjuster party, his flop to the Republicans and his term in the Sen ate, lie-was credited witn being a rich man and was a lavish liver and a daring speculator, but since he left the Senate he has been known simply as a lobbyist. His bankruptcy was the re sult of bad investments some of which were shared bv Democrats, instead of ttieir driving him to bankruptcy. In Petersburg the social status of the Ma hones is as good as it ever was. Gen. Mahone was a great soldier and a brainv man. but when that much is said it is best to stop. BENSCOTER-BOYNTON. Two Well Known KnoxvMIe People Wed t Washington. A special from Washington, D. C, published in the Knoxville Tribune of the 9th says: "At the residence of the bride's uncle, Col. J. B. Brownlov,No. 1411 Corcoran street, at hitrh noon on the 8th, Miss Lucile Boynton and Mr. Clarence A. Benscoter, both of Knox ville, Tenn., were united in marriage. Rev. Dr. Perry, of St. Andrew's Epis copal church, officiated. Immediately after the ceremony the couple left for a honeymoon jaunt wnich will include a visit to Niagara Falls and Boston, returning to Look out Mountain, Chattanooga, where thv stwnd the remainder of the j t month. The groom is the popular assistant general passenger agent of the South ern Railway, with headquarters at Knoxville. He stands very highly among all the railroad men and is con gidered everywhere aa a man of fine business qualifications. He was at one time assistant general passenger agent of the old E. T. V. & G. road and was later made division passenger agent of the East Tennessee division of the Southern. The bride, who i a grand-daughtei Wm. ft. Brownlow, i one of Knoi- ville s fairest daughter. Soon After the wedtiirii? h over con gratulatioii! poured in by wire on the happy couple, among the .neags oeinir one iroin ine eui ov" 01 air. Knuvtf rt 1 ffi r nt Knox viile. Miss Kdmee Boynton. Mtter of th saa mm Va -V M trile. and ilr. Hunter : o-n 01 Knoxville, attended tl.e -etl.Iin. Thousands of Women! SITTER UHTOLO MLSERIRS- BRADFIELDfS REGULATOR, ACTS AS A SPECIFIC . Bj Aroatisg b HealSj tet'sa all fcw Orpsi.; It raiiM health to liwui. and, jor to reieti tlironsjluMit the frame. ... It Never Fails lo Regulate ...! Alter aJrr i r 11 i r. ( i KMA1.K KtAU.LA7tK ftKewtoUf ' ri.. DUl A3. IKHonpuii, m. EE1DHELD crcrLATOB CO., Itlsata. Ca. Soli rj drftCT l f LOOf-rr WUl Pooip Health means so much more than i you imagine serious and i fatal diseases result from 1 trifling ailments neglected. Don't play with Nature's greatest gift health. If fo art fee Uer Browns and generally ex hausted, nervoas. have no appetite and cant work, begin at once tak ing the moat relia ble ttrenctheninc medicine. which la Brown 'a iron Bit ter. A few bot tles core benefit Bitters comes from the M very first doae it . Urtk, and it's pleasant to take It Cures Dyspepsia. 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