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HlCKCRY PEE5S: NOVEMBER 28, 1895. 6 SCIENTIFIC 1IISCELLJLNY. The Wind Measured by Its Whistle Inocula tion against Scorpion stings A Nw Skin far WMMd-Ral Marbla Artificially Pro-ducadSoand-Mysterles af Earth and Air A Remarkable Fuel-Power fr the Nxt QroatFalr. How it is possible to measure wind by its sound has been told by Prof. Carl Barus to the Natural Academy of Science. The whistling of the wind as it crosses a wire varies with the ve locity, and this can be computed by the pitch of the note observed in case of a given diameter of wire and for a given air temperature. A special mi crometer attachment can be made to convey the sound, isolated from other noises, to the observer at a distance. Every gust and variation of the wind can be studied in this way, and an idea of the direction of the gust can be had from the sounds obtained from three wires placed at right angle to one another. Micro-aulmometry is the name proposed for observations by i this method. Inoculation with gradually increased doses of venom to induce immunity from snake-bites has proven very suc cessful in late experiments in India, but it is now pointed out that this is probably no new achievement. The immunity of the Indian snake-charmers is evidently due to the fact that these individuals have survived acci dental bites from cobras and karits, being thereafter proof against fur ther bites. A Mahomedan fakir, who claimed that scorpions could not harm him, seems to have been similarly pro tected by a previous introduction of scorpion venom insufficient to kill, and he was seen to be stung by several scorpions after precautions making deception practically impossible, the stings having no apparent effect. A substitute for natural skin for "wounds, which is entirely absorbed during the healing process, is" made in Germany from the muscular coating of the intestines of animals. This is divested a uiucdus membrane, half di gested in a pepsin solution, then treated with tannin and gallic acid. Chalk slabs are now converted into marble in the work-shop by an imita tion of Nature's processes coloring with mineral stains, and hardening i i. ii: iii i . .. 4. i 'Strange sounds of nature have at tracted attention in all ages. Un- TOiifvlif 1 1 1 o n rvnrn o en r"kn i tviol in. terpretation, and heard battles of the gods, voices of miraculous, meaning, the cries of mysterious huntsmen, the barking of dogs of the air. Some of these sounds are becoming better un derstood. It is to be remembered that .waves of sound from a single impulse have the property of putting other waves in motion, thus prolonging the effect and prod.ucing a tone from the combined wave-movements. Sweet melodies of the cave of StafTa are due to the pattering of watsr-drops; the joyous ringing of church bells in a desert is supposed to have been an effect of extreme dryness in vibrating the organs, of hearing; the music of harp or organ is in some places as in Tartary and Sweden--the echoing of vibratious set in motion by wind and sea on a rocky coast; the musical sounds of a rock on the Orinoco begin at sunrise and are ascribed to changes of temperature; the bell-tones of a rock in the Red Sea and thunder-like noises in the region of Mount Sinai are caused by the rolling of sand among the rocks; and voices in the air like the "Devil's voice"' of Ceylon, which passes from place to place on a clear night, sometimes as the bark of a dog, .again as a mournful human voice have been connected with heat or dryness. Accounts of artillery-like sounds have been called for by Mr. G. H. Darwin, the British physicist, who would have their geographical distri bution determined as the first step toward systematic investigation. The "Barisal guns" of the delta of the Gangesdull sounds often heard there, and more or less resembling distant artillery are instanced; and a letter is given from M. van der Broeck, of the Museum of Natural History of Bel gium, mentioning the similar and pretty common phenomenon of the Belgian coast known as "mist pouf fers," or fog dissipators. M. van der Broeck believes such noises to be widely distributed, but overlooked as discharges of guns. The detonations are dull and distant, usually heard in the day time when the sky is clear and especially toward evening on a hot day; and the noises do not all resemble artillery, blasting in mines, or distant thunder. This observer regards the noises as peculiar electrical discharges; but M, Rutot, of the Belgian Geo graphical Survey, thinks their origin may be subterranean suggesting wave beats of the earth's fluid in terior. A physician asserts that 00 per cent of what are termed colds are nothing more uor les than the poisoning of the mucous membrane by impure air. Much is expected by M. Paul d 'Humv, a French naval engineer, as results from his experiments in the conversion of petroleum and other oils into a to I id mass suitable for use as fuel on ocean vessels. By mixing the oil with an ingredient not stated, and submitting the mixture to heavy pres sure, he has succeeded in obtaining a hard, homo geneous ubstance, that can be made in cakes of any size and shape, that cannot evaporate or cause explosion, that is unaffected by heat and cold, that is smokeless and odor less, and that burns with intense heat and only on the surface. Very little draught is required, and the combus tion leaves not more than 2 or 3 per cent of ashes. The cost per ton is stated to be not more than $5.00 to $10.00, while it is affirmed that a ton of this material will equal 30 tons of coal. If all these advantages can be realized in actual, every-day experi ence, the inventor has good reason for his prediction that the new fuel will entirely change the present system of propelling warships and other steam vessels, as well as greatly influence many industries. The World's Fair of 1900 will require an expenditure of 12,000 horse-power for lighting, according to a paper to the Society of Civil Engineers of France by M. G. Dumout. At the Paris exhibition of, 1889 only 1500 horse power was necessary. For shojving machinery and apparatus in motion, 350 horse power was used in 1855; G35, in 18G7; 2500, in 1878; 5500, in 1889; and it is estimated that 8000 will be needed in 1900. Electric power transmission will be employed. As suming 70 per cent total efficiency, the required horse-power of the steam en gines is placed at 28,000, reduced to 20,000 by alternate use of power dur ing the day for motors and at night for lighting. For the 180 days of the Fair, an aggregate of 38,520,000 horse power hours will be. furnished, . at an' expense, it is calculated, of about $1, 380,000. - -5 '; In Berlin, the central stations' " sup ply current to 14 motors; using-5 a to tal of 546 horse-power,' 'for1' driving printing presses; and 'to' 189 'motors, aggregating 834 horse1 power,' for run-' ning elevafdrs: in Liquid air is now an article' Of "com merce, and is "expected to'' prove of yalue not'oniy for refngeration but as a souree of oxygen. In the liquefac tion, nitrogen is eliminated until thej product contains 70 per cent oxygen. Josh Billiags Applied to Gene Field. The death of Eugene Field recalls the tribute paid by Josh Bill'ngs to Artemus Ward when that gentle hu morist passed to his long account. It' may be fittingly applied to Field: "Deth has done a cruel thing lately.' Deth seldom is imparshall; this is all that can be said in bis favor. He moves his sithe all round the world, now in this field, now in that; wheat, flowers and weeds drop, wilt and with er, for he sithes early and late, in city and town, by the hartstun and away aph where the wanderers ara 'Deth has done a cruel thing lately. Deth is seldom kind. Here a father, a mother, a wee small thing, but a month old, on a visit; there Mary and Charley go down in .white clothes. Deth mows; menny fields are all bare, for Deth cuts close as well as cruel. "Deth luvs to mow; 'tis his stile. He is old and slick with his sickle; he mowed for Abel of old and for Abelf of yesterday. "Deth mows strangely; all round fall the daisies and grass, and alone, snarling, stands the koarse thistle left for what! Deth kant tell, for God only knows. "Deth, you have done a cruel thing lately; you have mowed where the wittiest one of all stood, whose words have gone, lafling all over the world, whose heart was az good and az soft az a mother's. "Deth you have mowed where my friend Artemus stood, and humor wears mourning now for the child of her heart. I am sad, and I am sorry." Free Pills. Send your address to H. E. Bucklen & Co., Chicago, and get a free sample box of Dr. King's New Life Pills. A trial will convince you of their merits. These pills are easy in action and are particularly effective in the cure of Constipation and sick headache. For Malaria and Liver troubles they have been proved invaluable. They are guaranteed to be perfectly . free from every deleterious substance and to be purely vegetable. They do not weak en by their action, but by giving tone to stomach and bowels greatly invigor ate the svstein. Regular size" 25c per box. Sold by O. M. Royster. Drue- gist. 4 MOW TO WAKE A DEAD TOWN. Son Wise Suggestions frem a Westers Mm. Two weeks ago Mr. T. C. Tipton, of Loudau, Teuu., awked the Manufac- : tureiV Record "how to wake a dead town." . Mr. Tipton told of the many ; natural advantages of Loudan,. but pointed out how, from lack of energy and enterprise and because of the work of the never dying croakers, these advantages were not utilized, and how, because of this, the town, like hundred.- of others, was to all inteats and purposes dead. The Manu facturers' Record published his letter, and asked for suggestions as to how to quicken into life these dead towns that are a curse to themselres and to the country. Tfithout life they furn ish no employment, no opportunties for the young, who must either grow up in idleness or seek some new field in which to Hud a chance to work and live. Wake up, dead towns, and become a blessing to your people and your- sec tion ! - From an Indiana subscriber to the Manufacturers' Record we have the following letter, which we eoumend to our readers, for it tells what enter prise can do in waking dead towns to life and cre&tfhg employment for their people. INDIANAPOLIS, IND., August 30. EDITOK iANUIACTURKRS, RECORD: In your issue of August 23 Mr. T. C. Tipton, of Loudan, Tenu., asks how to wake a dead town. I want to say that I never learned of a town that did "wake up" until every inhabitant took a financial interest in some wan ner, usually by aiding some faetory enterprise, or thorough advertising and continuous advertising, not for a week, but for ears in selected adver tising mediums.' A good 'medium costs money, but we get what we pay for every time, believe the Manu facturers' Record has been and is to day, doing more for advancement of Southern interests than ail 1 other pa pers and magazines combined. ' I take it and readMtaricf liiy neignbors come and borrow 'it; 'and when they "return it one would think ' it had been used for ten years:1 As a result of the Man ufacturers Record being in my Home, T took an Interest in' "'a large ' orchard company at Marshallville; Ga., called Red Clay OrchardCo. Mine is only one'ease'for my copyof- the Manufac turers Record has been the. means Of causing Northern capital-to go South to'the araouut- of $25,000.. I am an Indiana riany and so are all my invest- ihg friends.r iNow, there are thous ands of dollars of Northern capital ly ing in the banks and salety vaults not only in Indianapolis,but in all large cities, only waiting a favorable oppor tunity for investment. -But those" towns wanting financial aid must first show their own confidence -by leading off, then the outside capital will fol low. Let me tell your readers that in Indiana in seven, years' tiuie there were raised bonuses aggregating up wards of $1,000,000 in only twelve towns. What did these towns do? Why they gave this money to facto ries that had capital of over $20,000, 000, employing upward of 20,000 hands, a weekly pay-roll of $40,000 and an annual output of products ex ceeding the amount of capital stock. 1 know a small town of about 1500 souls which wanted a factory, and wanted it badly. A meeting f busi ness men was called, fifteen were pres ent; out of the fifteen a self-constituted committee was appointed on ways and means to get up a subscrip tion. One man who owned 200 acres of land offered to donate forty, acres valued at $10,000. His offer was ac cepted, the land was platted, and within three days every person able to buy a lot (except an occasional croak er, whom we have with us as well as the flea and serpent in every town,) bought of these 100 lots, and raised $10,000 in easy payments. Two years ago that town did not circulate, $1000 a month, including every store; today they pay out in wages over $2000 per week for help alone, and another big plant is building, while new stores and dwellings are going up on every hand. Moreover, every man, woman and child feels the beneficial effects of the distribution of money, and no one wanting work is idle. You say you can't do the same thing, and can't get the factory if you would? You can't do anything unless you try. While en route South last month I noticed many idle "hands" lounging around stores and holding a post' down big men playing marbles, others playing chess, shooting craps men who looked to me as if they bad brains for better business, and should be earn ing something for themselves and their families. Some say they have no means. Then let a few that, bavo means join bands and start the ball rolling; get your advertisement start i ed; announce to the world that your town is there, aud let every soul that enjoys the town's privileges be in structed to talk oat in meeting, in the country, in other cities, everywhere, that your town is awake, and that it is the place to live in and invest mon ey in, and that your people are enter prising and full of push. Sometimes it pajs to engagtr an experienced pro motor, but make sure of your man, he can only aid in securing industrial en terprises. While Sooth early this year I had the pleasure of meeting several distinguished gentlemen who are do ing what the Manufacturers Record is accomplishing and advocating, vizi inducing settlers and capitalists to eome South It looks like the capi talists and settlers, were doing it with m good will. Got. W.J. Northcn is doing good work, so also is Hen. J. L. Hand, of Pelham, Ga. I believe Sena tor Hand will succeed in securing the location of a large sanitarium and be tel for his town, Pelham. Judge Joseph Tillman, of Quitman, Ga., is also one of the right stripe to aid the upbuilding of" the South. . M. Rnmph, of Marshallville, Ga., is do ing great good in settling up his sec tion. But these men are to be ad mired fpr the stick-to-it-iveness, which has brought the success that has al ready crowned their earlier efforts. Let not friend Tipton, of Tenn.,' or others in other dead towns despair. You lead off and make an effort and try what you can do, as we never know without trying. I will tell a true story here about an Arkansas town. The people wanted a factory badly, and concluded that a "saw mill and sucker-rod plant" would be the ideal for their quiet place to shake up the dust and pick up the idle and give the idler work, that he might have money to pay his grocery bill. The chairman of the meeting was directed to write to an Indianapolis firm for the cost of a complete "mill " The letter an swered; and in a few days a reply came from the chai rman that $800 was all the money the town could raise, and if they had the $1500 demanded for such a "mill,!' what in "hades" would they want of a saw mill? I felt sorry for the town, for there were a few en terprising spirits there, and I trust that that kind of luck will not deter others from trying, for where there is' a will there is a way. Now get to work and And. G. 'W. Cross. " Phifer's Celery Farm irrigation. One of the interesting things about Charlotte, particularly at this season,, is the celery farm of Mr. W. W. Phi fer. It is located to .the east of the city, between' tlie Carolina central railroad track and the bed of the old Phifer's pond and has been worked up to its present state of perfection only after several years of toil. A fea ture of this farm is the system of irri gation devised by Mr. Phifer. On this farm is to be seen a practical plan of irrigation and one that can be adop ted on almost any farm in Mecklen burg. Farmers who have seen it have been impressed with the benefits of irrigation and it will not be long un til the Phifer system will be brought into use in different parts of the coun ty. Mr. Phifer's farm is planted this year in 60,000 plants, and he Till have celery on the market Thanksgiving. This is as early as it can be made ready for market In this section. Charlotte News. All Free. Those who have used Dr. King's New Discovery know its value, and those who have not. have now the op portunity to try it Free. Call on the advertised Druggist and get a Trial Bottle, Free. Send your name and ad dress to H. E. Bucklen & Co., Chica go, and get a sample box of Dr. King's New Life Pills Free, as well as a copy of Guide to Health and Household In structor, Free. All of which is guar anteed to do you good and cost you nothing. For sale at O. M. Royster's Drug Store. 4 About the Mysterious Eel. Good gracious! Just listen here to the Shelby Aurora. This elucidates the eel question: A Urge eel weighing nine pounds was brought to Shelby Tuesday by Mr. Stanford Jolly and attracted much attention. RobL S. Ellis was chosen to skin the eel which he did with dexterity. Eels are a strange fish, and not with out mystery concerriing its life-history. The wide gape, long projecting lower jaw, round cylindrical body with flat and long tale, without scales, its steal thy habits and winter somnolence, its blood poisonous to the skin yet not injurious to the stomach, are some of its characteristics. Many do not know that the eel that lies fn the mud in the day-time often travels on land and migrates in the night many miles in search of water-animals spawn and carcasses. POKER STORIES. When Denver was but a na. it was the rendezvous for inanv -n players. There was a bmkt r'thj that time by the name of T1 had an abundance of Cah 1 could handle the card like an Jerome B. Chaffee, at one ti,lle States Senator from Colon two or three others who ueii to with Cook a good deal, o.nf little scheme by which they a they could have a great deaT at Cook's expense, and at the time get a champagne uppr out him. So Chaffee and his co.u who bad plenty of money, and wh had suffered financially by : 0 caught in a good many jackpt,u tk Cook had opeueJ, arraujed &tIi0. themselves that the wrj next t they played with Cook they show him a trick he would not f0rn in a hurry. The scheme was to open a pot and if Cook stayed to deal him enou-h card LCi IUAKR SIT III MM Mild f I... ..... . rci nmr ace; then wuen tne not nau reaehM . .,.. ,1 . " MI tr 10 1 1 ritrti iiialrA .1. vvr uiuj, UJUIU UllU MlOW MX CirdjL v .uuu b ins ij)ense, and. Airr tr rin linn l)Lr h L . o - - o "v. luvut-v out of the not. make him r nnri... ..u. j ii7 viiayw T . li . . v . " , uo vuoiw very mau io lose a poc or any considerable oito uu u ft uc ii uiey made thii i. ... A. lffp nne hia wrvith w.nl.l i bounds. xuouay at ia?i arrived when they weic an i-i;etiir ill v-ook S Olllce, and Phflffl ClKVfVAf Ail A . . ... t l ougcoini a faille Ol OOKe f to sionuy uue. uook. reauuy as.sentei. A " 1 ... l.'iil .1 i nine ureaming or ine good time that was io oe nau at ins expense. The oordo tt'ara Hautt' o.1 t . k 1 I . I)layed around wheu at last Chaffee opened a jackpot on three kinsrs. Cook rayea on a pair 01 jacks ana called i m ... lor tnree cards, lie got four aees. It uicu uawueu uiiuu mm inai some- i. ,i i . i. . n. a a . t a ining must oe up, out neuui not quite grasp tne situation. Chaffee called for two cards and bet the hunt. Cook raised him and they hud it back and forth. Tne others dropred out after several rounds iust to swpII th rwf The betting continued until at Iat there was an even $lu.uoo in the pot, when Chaffee called hm and made rum snow aown n scare is. i;ook inre four aces and a lack on the table and starred io rake in ine nor. ine one a a mi who had dealt obiected. statinir that he saw Cook have six cards in his nana, t ne-otners insisted ax once that they saw' him have six cards. ' - ''Prove it-then." criwl Cook. "1 did 7 T not ne.iir von clrvilt. and if voariveiu 1 j - v ej- six cards,' where are they?M l;hafTft and fns fmimajiionsatonc inaiirfurafpn t.ht mnfif rirul se.UVfl I0r th miKinir inrc Thov looked under tablps in rlfwoiN vprvu here a carl rniild nnssihlv cat. .Thev made Cook ' i ' J . ' . . .... .... . i t.i j. uisruoe, wiiicu ue um wmium uuj firn - orr1' kiitiantorl liifiis4f to tut hut. the card J a. iv. i i . 1 . 'ljn AN ADMIRAL TALKED TOO MUCH. ICIrkland Miint Aawr for lndicrt Eiprtf ions Abroad. . A.1tn;Ml ,ttn ti now 0D nuuiuai ikii i lLiiiii, iw i nis way nome irom tne tuurou ouu wmcii ue was receim iru- I 1 t 1 i I .. . .t tlf Admiral Selfndge, win nave iu swer certain cnarges me jcj 1 il. . I l,,r .3 PTl'lU :11 ' ' r l. j... A.m lZ?T win preier against iuiu the rnaUv of a court of IDQH and nerhans eourt-inartial. The admiral was relieved from command oecause oi u'- the Armeca affair, and his letter of congratuUtK to President Faure, which tneur ment held was unwarranted "a u- j i i. r.1 the CO" auiuurucu uu nits l- mander of th United State forces ia Europe. , -i It is also said now that the turnx i : i t i : - hi corr?' pondence with the Deiartiueot, has shown a disposition to iffoore restriction which the naral re?C'' tions placed on all onicers, i-,-- , ii , t i lio ha ui lueir rani., it is - ,. he language to the UeiJaruaru coming an admiral. 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