Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1888 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Ralph Fendig Las r.dded nn ex tensive variety of new goo b to his already largest -ck. i O EXCH AN ! Kansas lau .in Kingman, Edwards Wabau' - Harper, and other <■ nntiea. ti rade for Indian "ns and r arming lam is. C. P. Wku Th se of our snbscr’d '• ho have promise I us wood ... .tly oblige us by brin/ing it < long. w— >■* ♦o. ' . .. For extensive v nety, qn ' : ’ vof goods, and 1 w prices, L»u1 v aa I‘Mjdig defies o t o t ..

SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY. M. Toussant finds that the virus ol tuberculosis retains its power under conditions which completely destroy the germs of other contagious maladies. In experiments with the electric light in night military operations, made al Chatham, England, bodies of men wens discovered at a distance of more than 1,000 yards. The horn of a rhinoceros, when cut through the middle, is said to exhibit on each side the rude figure of a man, the outlines being marked by small white strokes. Various cases of poisoning from the use of perfumes Luve been reported. In one instance soma heliotrope perfume applied to the face of a little girl {xroduoed an erysipelas which lasted for a ong time. It was found on investigation that the scent was not made with th** odoriferous principles of plants, but with some of the products of coal-tar.

Thomas and Lugel recently exhibited an apparatus for measuring the rapidity of growth of a plant. The plant itself is connected with an index which advances visibly and constantly, exhibiting the growth on a scale fifty times magnified. When the index is connected with an electric hammer, the current of which is interrupted as the index passes over the divisions of the circle, the growth of the plant becomes not only visible, but also audible to the ear. In this way it is now possible, literally, to “hear the grass grow/’ Mr. Muybridge, the eminent San Francisco photographer, has exhibited his photographic marvels of Prof. Maray in Paris. He is now able to take a photograph in the hundreth part of a second. During a clown's teap he obtained six photographs, showing different positions. By means of an improved zoetrope, he projects such figures on a screen, thus exhibiting the motions of a clown in his somersaults, a horse at gallop, a hare coursing and even birds at flight, etc.— the pictures of the various positions as they pass in rapid succession across the screen, uniting to form tjje living figures. M. Pdantr has succeeded in engraving on glass by means of electricity. The process is as follows : The glass is laid in a horizontal position, and covered with a concentrated solution of nitrate of potash, the liquid being retained by a shallow vessel in which the glass is S laced. A platinum wire is dipped in a orizontai position in the solution along the edges of the glass. The wire is attached to one of the poles of a secondary battery of fifty to sixty elements. The lines are traced by hand with the point of an insolated platinum wire, connected with the other pole of the battery. The parts of the glass covered with the alkaline solution become engraved when touched with the end of the platinum wire, however rapidly this is moved, the thickness of the lines varying with the thickness of the wire. The current from either pole may be used in tit? writing wire.

“It is a marvelous circumstance,* says Dr. Brancroft, “that the black man of Australia should have dropped upon the same narcotic principle (nicotine) as the red man of America.” Pitcri is a plant of Central Australia, not far .•emdved from the tobacco plant. The leaves of the plant are chewed by the aborigines, who trade with it extensively. Chemical analysis show that the alkaloid in which the peculiar poisonous properties depend is nicotine, the same substance to which tobacco owes its effects, Pituri is eagerly sought by the native Australians, not for the purpose of exciting their courage or but to produce a dreamy, voluptuous sensation, such as is experienced by the opium eater. It is often taken by the natives on their long marches to deaden the craving of hunger and to support them under excessive fatigue. Free Liquor. out getting opinions en liquet selling,” said a sharp reporter to a saloonist. “Are you in favor of free liquors ?” “Well, I should smile,” answered the barkeeper. “I think this country is the home of liberty, and I believe every man should have a right to drink what he pleases, and where he pleases, absolutely free, and all legislation to the contrary is sumptuary and therefore unconstitutional. ” “You want to be so recorded?” “You bet your sweet life.” K All right; now I’ll take a glass of champagne; that kind yon sell at' 25 cents.” It was set out for him, and he poureA ft down and poured another in on top of it and started off. “Hold on,” said the bartender, “you owe me half a dollar.” “No, I don’t; didn’t you just say you believed in free liquor, and that anything to the contrary is sumptuary and unconstitutional? If there’s anything I do like to see it is a man who lives up to his principles,” and he walked out, wiping his mouth on his coat sleeve, ■nd leaving the saloon man to study up : the law points of the case.