Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1890 — SCIENTIFIC HINTS. [ARTICLE]

SCIENTIFIC HINTS.

Turns: are nearly 8,000 electric street cars in the United States. An electric storage battery ear has been invented for street railways in crowded cities. A diet of fresh, sweet buttermilk has been found favorable and even effectual in the cure of Bright’s disease. It is claimed that somebody at Vichy, France, has discovered a method of rendering tobacco smoke harmless to mouth, heart and nerves. It has occurred to a French scientist that the domestic cats in the world communicate 30 per cent, of the ordinary contagious diseases from house to house. Manipuultobs appear to have made rapid advance in the manufacture of ■mokeless powder. Fires have been re--vated lor nan an hoar without the petition of the shoot! or being discovered.

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