The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, January 7, 1891, Page 2

AN ITALIAN'S THEORY. The Effects of Electricity and Ozone on | Cow's Milk, ll known that d storms milk tends Italian, Prof. G. Tolomei, tried to throw some light on It is w hunder- d. An lately the nature to g has of this action. He experimented with | eh icity on fresh mi in three dif- | srent ways—first, by passing the dis | charge of a Holtz machine bets two balls of platinum inserted nearly two ' ; lk: | inches apartin a bottle containing milk; | second, by sending a battery current between two strips platinum at | the bottom of a U tube holding | milk; and, third, by subjecting milk to a test tube to the tion of a strong battery current through a silk-covered copper wire wound spirally round the tube. In each case the acidu- jation wasdelayed, not bastened. Three equal portions of milk from the same milking, thus treated, began to grow acid on the seventh, the ninth, and the sixth day respectively; while milk not treated with electricity nifestly as ™m acid on the third day. The electrified milk (unlike milk that has been heated | to a high temperature, then cooled), j coagulates naturally, or by action of rennet, just like ordinary mil Hav- ing thus seen that electricity could not he the dir cause of acidification of milk, the fessor next tried the effect of ozone, and found it distinctly acidifying. tn one case the surface of a quantity of milk was brought close under the two balls of a Holtz machine, and the milk soon became acid in consequence, the sooner if tne discharge was silent (not explosive), in which case more ozone formed. In another case ozonized oxy- gen was made to bubble up through a quantity of milk, which in a few hours was completely acid, and soon coagulat- ed spontaneously. Prof. Tolomei is of opinion that oxygen probably also promotes lactic fermentation (a point which has been disputed). If milk keeps longer in wide, shallow vessels, that is probably due, he thinks, to the cooling produced by evaporation, which is favored by # wide, open surface.— London Times. A PLEASANT SURPRISE. How Ar . 4% Valerie Was Greected on the Eve of Her Wodding. A surprise, which was prepared by the. Emperor and Empress for the Arch- duchess Vaierie on the eve of her wed- ding, is now being talked of in Vienna. Our correspondent there tells us that Baron Rezeeny, the director of the Court Theater, was asked to invite a famous Vienna quartette to come to Ischl, and to tell no one of their coming. From the station they were taken to the house of the master of ceremonies, put into a room alone, and given four copies of a love song and accompani- ment, This song, which bore neither the name of the poet nor the composer, they were asked to study. An ample repast was sent them and they were di- rected to remain there until they were sent for. At night, when the fires on tho mountains were extinguished and the moon shone bright over woods and hills, they were led to the imperial villa and placed under a group of trees opposite the front terrace. At a signal agreed upon they were to begin their song. They heard talking in the apartment which opens out upon the balcony. Presently the Empress ap- peared with her arm round her daugh- ter. Close behind them followed the Emperor with the bridegroom. As they stood silent on the balcony gazing at the truly beautiful scenery, Prince Honen- fohe gave the signal, and from beneath the trees rose sweetly the notes of the tendér love song, the words and music of which had been composed by the young bride. Her eyes overflowed with grateful tears, as she looked from her father to her mother. The Emperor afterward went below and gave each singer a handsome diamond scarf-pin, thanking them at the same time for their rendering of the song.—London Daily News. CHINESE EVOLUTION. A Theory More & Advanced by 5 The Chinese have as odd ideas about the earth «nd the origin of man as they have about other things with which they, as well as ourselves, are better acquainted. According to their way of reckoning, the rocks of the earth are the bones of the Divine body, the soil is the flesh, the metals the nerves and the veins. The tide,wind, rain, clouds, as well as frost and snow, are caused by the respirations, pulsations and exhala- tions of this seeming inanimate body. Originally the mountains rose to the skies, and the seas covered the mount- ains to their tops. At that time there was no life in the divine body except the divine life. Then the waters sub- sided; small herbs grew, and, in the lapse of cycles, developed into shrubs and trees. As the body of man, unwashed for years, breeds vermin, so the mountains, unlaved by the seas, bred worms and insects, greater creatures developing out of lesser. Beetlesin the course of ages became turtles, earth sects became ‘birds, ergets becoming cranes, etc. Then wild-cats became tigers, the man- tis was by degrees transformed into an ape, andsome of the apes became hair- less. A hairless ape accidentally made afire by striking a crystal againsta flint. With the fire thus obtained they cooked food; eating cooked victuals made them large, strong and knowing. With all its faults the above is even more reasonable than many of the ideas advanced by the Darwinian ovolution- ists. —St. Louis Republic. able ‘Than the Ideas me Darwinians. Cause of Hairless Pates. “If I ever marry I sha'n't seek for mind; mind is too cold. I shall choose an emotional woman.” “Don't do it,” eagerly exclaimed his bald-headed friend, suggest! vely point- ing to his hairless pate; “don't do it, I implore you! woman!"—N. Y. Ledger. —A of the lithographic stone from which the $10 bills of the Confed- erate Government were printed was dis- | covered in a cemetery near Anderson, & CG, recently. | no voice and makes no My wife is an emotional | PITH AND POINT. It is said that the female locust has noise, but she does ail ti the mischief—Ram’s Horn. Is nm af re? No: you can put pope in your wife's name in times of ancial ¢ ssion.—Van Dam's M Friend did your hand t ble so when you were signing the lation affidavi *—Circulation Editor.— “I was telling the truth.”—Yankee ade —It is claimed ‘hat the sponge has a nervous sy tt is gratifying to learn that a sponge bas something that would ly ired. — seem to} Ram's Hor rn. honest “Which of 1 6 the most highly capac bis! Newsman— “This one, I guess. Nobody buys it” —N. Y. Weekly. —The E n says: “Let's be honest. is right; but we wouldn't have dishon f ha Leavenworth ‘4 There is one thing [like about the vulture,” said Cynicus to a physician who had overcharged him. ‘‘And that?” “He doesn’t present his bill until the patient is dead. —Mrs. Seeall—“i wonder what's come over that young Swift. He used to be such a nice boy: now he drinks, plays cards and stays out all night.” Mr. | Seeall—‘He’s been away to college.” Toledo Blade. —Careful Housekeeper—‘*Where that sheet of sticky Ay paver I left on this table Small Boy—*I put it on | th’ arm-chair in th’ parlor. You'll find half of it on sis®er an’ th’ other half on Mr. Mughard.""—Good News -Mr. Isaac: sells you dot coat at} a great sacrifice. Customer— “But you say that of all your goods. How do you make a living?” Mr. Isaacs—‘Mein frient, I makes a sehmall profit on de paper and string.”—N. Y. Weekly. —Miss Boston (on Western ranch)— “Dear me! I don’t see how each man} can pick out his own cattle among these thousands!” Lariat Luke—"H'm! The real trouble, Madam, comes when a fel- ler picks out cattle that ain‘t bis.” Puck. —"I guess that Charley Flippins wants tomarry Gertrude,” remarked one young woman to another. “Why, he; pays a great deal of attention to Hattie Smith.” “I know it, but he pays a good deal more to Gertrnde’s mother.” ashington Post. known you were in’'t acknowledged nes. you “Harper's Bazaar. Merchant vertisement Clerk— , this wa “IT wish to insert an ad- in the Morning Bugle.” sir.” “Commence it in y Cash, and put those words in large letters.” ‘Yes, sir.” “And I wish you'd trust me to the amount for a fhonth Yankee Blade. -“T can’t say the idea of taking that young man Hankinson into my family strikes me altogether favorably, Mable,” the father said. ‘“Whatdo you see in him to admire? Is he goed for or so.” any thing? Whatcan he do?” ‘What | can he do!” exclaimed the indignant | girl, proudiy. “He can beat any one} comiyg to our house playing lawn ten- nis!”—Chicago Tribune ELECTRIC ENDOSMOSIS. An Important Medic Wizard Edison has come out in a new char- acter. The process of accelerating the passage of drugs threugh the skin by electrical endosmosis has for some time been regularly practiced under medica} sanction. Edison had noticed that gouty concretions ure often treated with the aid of lithium salts, taken in- ternally, to facilitate the formation,dis solution and excretion from the body of | urate lithium. The difficulty in this | treatment has always been the uncer- { tainty of the absorptien of the salts into! the system, and it oceurred to Elison ! that more rapid suceess might be ob | tained by external application } | i Discovery on. Made by and the employment of elec- trical endosmose to carry the lithium into the tissues For the pur- pose of testing this application he car ried out a series of experiments last year, the result of which were placed before the International Medical Con- gress, recently held at Berlin. The | subject experimented upon was seven- ty-three years of age, and had lived an active and healthy life until ten years previously, when he contracted the ten- dency to gouty concretions through sleeping in damp sheets. All the joints except the knees were very much enlarged and the joints of the little | finger were almost obliterated by opera- | tion. The patient experienced freedom | from pain, which had up to that time been intense, after the first day's treat- ment, and in fourteen days a reduction of nearly an inch and a quarter was ef- fected in the circumference of one of | the fingers, whose form was favorable | to accurate measurement. ‘The general condition of the patient was temporari- ly ameliorated, and the results of the experiment were in every way encou - aging.—N. x. So Phthisis in Switzerland. The average proportion of deaths from pulmonary phthisis in Switzerland is 2.31 per 1,000 of population. Of 1,000 deaths from all causes, 105 are due to consumption. The greatest mortality from phthisis is in the cantons of Ap- penzell, Basel and Geneva; the least in those of Uri, the Upper Unterwald and Schaffhausen. In relation to altitude, the following ‘are the statistics; From 200 to 400 meters. in every 1,000 deaths there are 112 from phthisis: from 400 to 700, 105; 700 to 900, 106; 1,200, 92; above 1,200, 71. Phthisis is | | | | of Prof. Bell's refusal to give his| ~—-If the caleulat of Professe photograph. However, a bright man | Mendelejeff are to be trusted, Russia | Was sent out to see w could be done. | possesses the richest coal deposits in the His genius proceeded to wake himself | World. The superficial area of the coal | Prof. Bell's family, and it was not long | to about 50,000 square k ometers. If before he was on the good side of | the capacity of these deposits is put at the domestic. He confided to the | 59,000,000 pounds per square kilometer girl what he wanted, and of-| (ome pound being about thirty-six | procured the photograph, and in due | ceiving written letters for so long that | they regarded with dismay and aisgust \carpet and a good deal of furniture of a | functions |de resistance came on. |dish, a | you-piease” from 900 to} MR. BELLS " PICTURE. FOREIGN GOSSIP. How It Was Obtained by an Enterprising —In Siam the coins are made ot por Publishing tiouse. | eelain: in Japan they are chiefly of I heard the other night a pretty good | iron Story of how a well-known publishing house secured the pict scientific man painfully modest The firm, whi six months been Scool-book ‘Trust een established at er Congo, five hun- the mouth of the river. ased a who was excessiv has pure bas swallc frermany, a york « taining the biograp | a this cn nin, : nS biogr 24 fenravareeet pictures of some of the not at of an Ss = > f. ak . vy in the world, is, in| science. Prof. € ham Bell, the j 000,000. ! or of the te one, of course had to | : mand for photographs of has fallen off so largely in photographers are dropping figure inthe book. Little difficulty was | experienced in securing points for a bi- London t) ographical sketch of the eminent sci- | tt b entist’s career, but when it come to get= | t branch of the business. | ting a picture of him the pr reef | 2 pes bo ee unrerian ounyoe no eture m the projectors Fai is is condemned to die stands on the ground the enterprise we with a “It was found would rope and his neck. and at a} i 5 i led off his legs to not consent to haye his picture pub- | pulled off & j i i a H t air until he is lished,” said the man who related this} in tL ntil he | incident to the Stor eller. “He was, ng : | it seems, excessis sensitive on the} —Tbe peace strength of ee cone ; 1) An and stterGet x subject of his personal appearance, will, on and after October 1, be as though why he should to imagine, as. while an Apollo Belvidere, he is not an ugly- looking man. mporarily, the pub- lishers were in a quandary on account is dificult no means be it he is by pionee: 21 bat dsint e Do solid with the servant-girl employed in tz basin alone amounts pounds avoirdupois), the total supply of coal is stated to be equal to the world’s present consumption for fifty years. Moreover, this only refers to the super- ficial beds and not to the deeper depos- its. which have not been exploited, but which promise still greater riches. —Brussels, not content with having more beautiful public buildings than any other European city save Paris, has now determined to rival Paris itself. King Leopold has just laid the founda- tions of an arch of triumph one-third fered her ten dollars if she would go intagthe parlor, slip out a photograph of Prof. Bell which was in the album, and allow the publishers to retain it for half an hour. The girl demurred, and said she was afraid she would lose her position. The young man, with the authority of the publishers. guar- anteed the girl anew position in case she lost the old one through executing her partin the plot. This proposition carried the day, and the girl yielded, time Prof. Bell's picture appeared in | larger than the celebrated one in Paris, the work. 1 very much doubt it the | and it is announced that this gigantic scientist to this day knows how his work will be completed by the close of picture was procured. No, I have |thecentury. Brussels already has the most monumental court-house in all Europe—a magnificent pile. which cost vast sums of money and which contains some superb halls. The Paris triumphal arch cost $2,000,000; that of Brussels is never heard whether or not the servant- girl was detected in the job."—Chicago News SLOW JOHN BULL. He Fou ters for Years, Bat | to cost 000,000. It will be richly Them ornate with sculptures, some of which The head of one of the big typewriter | will be of gigantic proportions. manufacturing concerns was speaking the other day of the hard fight the type- writer people had to overcome English conserva and get John Bull to actually give their machines a trial. ENGINEER TYLER. A Raitroad Man Who seems to Have No Idea of Fear. sm “You see,” he said, “the English peo- | |, popeaitng, pune aay peneucn an ple had been used to sending and re- | Buenos Ayres,” said a former official of 5 the Seattle, Lake Shore tern rail- way, “I knowa lroad engineer who the proposition to print their letters for | 4d some lively experiences in those them. Business men wouldn't even | Parts during the last rebelion down listen to the proposition, ard, for a time, there. He was an engineer on the gov- we couldn't get a foothold on British | °™™™€ nt railroad running out into the soil. interior of the Argentine Republic. He “A certain big manufacturing con- | ¥#S out on the further end of the line cern in this city sent a typewritten whena little unpleasantness broke out business letter to Sir William G. Arm- | 2* thecapital. The government ran‘out Biron. ‘fitchell & Co. the world-ta- of powder and could not contend much longer against the insurgents without asupply of that necessary adjunct to modern warfare, so they telegraphed mous ship-builders of Liverpool. The two houses had done business together for years, and heavy interests were in- volved, but the Liverpool concern sent Pua a repays. Be Lael i an indignant protest against the printed a - ‘ foe oo ies ones meee circular, as they called it, to the New | en o he track, u z long since communication over the York company. It even went so far as to intimate that if their house was not deemed worthy of a private written let- ter. instead ef a printed circular, it might be compeled to ver its rela- tions with the New York concerm “It was hard work for the New York company to make the Liverpool concern understand thas no discourtesy was in- tended and thas those printed ciregjars —otherwise, typewritten letters—were all the go in American. This was only three or four years ago, but since then John Bull has peeketed his comserv- atism and given typewriters a cordial welcome.""—N. ¥. Mail and Express. AN ARAB DINNER. rails had been stopped. When a volun- teer engineer was called to make the perilous journey, Tyler, the man of whom E am speaking, said he would go. He hookext on to the car of powder and a car ot soldiers and started for the cap- italata breakneck speed He rushed into Buenos Ayres, and the powder thus secured saved the republic from the rebels. “That same Tyler was the greatest engineer ] ever heard of. He seemed to have no idea of fear, and would make the most remarkable runs.on record in railroad annals. The paymaster on the Seattle, Lake Shore & Eastern always |asked for Tyler to rush his ear on the lline. He was the first engineer to pull train of cars over the Canadian Pa- cifie railway from Vancoaver to Mon- treal. “He was an engineer on the Chicago, Milwavkee & St. Paul line. and was pronounced by the master mechanic to be the best man in hisemploy. He had a knaek of snaking the fast mail trains in ahead of schedule timeswhen all the jother engineers found it almost im- possible to make the runontime. The superintendent noticed this one time, and ordered the engineer discharged for reckless driving, and at the same time ordered him blackballed. The master mechanic did as ordered; but, jnot wishing to part entirely with such a vood man, he sent him down on a lit- tle branch just building in Iowa, and in that obscurity be was working for two years. Finally the same superin- tendent went down to inspect that road. While there he received a tele- gram to hurry back to Milwaukee. He asked for an engine to pull his private var back. Nothing buta freight engine was to be had. “Can you pull a passenger coach?’ asked the superintendent of a greasy- looking man under the engine. “Yes, sir; I think so.” “Well, get up steam and hook on to my coach." “He did so, and the superintendent told him to rash things for the main | line. That was all Tyler wanted, and he rushed things so well that the super- intendent ordered him to goon to Mil- waukee. Before reaching that city the ; engineer had washed himself and put | j}onaclean shirt As the superintend- | ent stepped out of his coach to compli- | ment the engineer on his remarkably | | good run he suddenly stopped. Qaeer Table — wers and Fearfully and w je Viands. While at E} Ontaja we made friends with the Sheik of the village, a very dignified and courteous personage, who invited us to dinner, along with the station master and a French gentleman who had lately arrived totry an experi- ment in vineeulture. We were received in a windowless room, with a handsome plain kind. His secretary sat at anoth- ertable writing most of the time, for the village sheiks exercise magisterial After a preliminary course or two of rather highly-spiced viands, served in European fashion, the piece The table was cleared and a flat-iron yard in diameter, was placed there, and two servants bore ina half- grown sheep roasted whole on a wooden spit This was deposited on the dish and the spit withdrawn. The Sheik then proceeded to pull off the choicer | parts with his fingers and place them on jour plates, after which we were expect- led to help ourselves in the same ‘‘go-as- fashion. The meat was roasted very brown and crisp, and was not so nasty as it sounds. After this fol- lowed the great national dish of ‘‘cous- | cous”—flour moistened and rolled by the hand into tiny balls like sago, then streamed, and served with different Sauces or raisins A wife is valued to a great extent according to her ability to make ‘‘cous-cous.” We had lots of Algerian wine,¢which the sheik did not disdian to drink himself. Dates and promegranates finished the meal.— Nineteenth Century. | A Substitute for Scouring Soap. Wiie (to her husband)—When you are endemic through Switzerland; there is no constant relation between the prev- alence of phthisis and altitude, but the! disease increases in direct ratio to the increase in the industrial population. Atequal altitudes industrial districts show a far higher death rate from phthisis than agricultura’ districts. In industrial populations of equal size the death rate is a little lower in those at | higher altitudes.—Chicago Herald. down town, John, step into the store jand buy me some scouring soap: there jisn’t a bit in the house. Little Johnny (looking up irom a {newspaper he is reading)—Wouldn’: a posse be good in place of soap? “Posse! What do you mean?” “Why. the paper tells about a train robbery, and says a posse is Scouring the woods for the robbers.”—Texas | Siftings. “Why, I thought I bad you black- balled from this road years ago,’ ex- claimed he. “Yes, sir, you did, but working down there for guess nobody knew of it’ “ ‘Well, I'll take care of your case.” “The next day the engineer was re- stored tc his old position, with all its rights, which made him the oldest en- gineer on the road.” —Seattle Press. 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