Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1882 — RELIGION AND SCIENCE. [ARTICLE]

RELIGION AND SCIENCE.

“The boy preacher, ” Rev. Thomas Harreon, Is Laving such success in meetings among Methodists of Cincinati that he is likely to remain in that city through the month of March. Bishop Jausen, of Natchez, has forbidden marriages in the Catholic Church after dark, and desires that ail weddings be celebrated in tbe morning with nuptial mass, according to the suggestion of the rubrics of.the Roman Catholic Church.. Dr. Duyrea, of Boston, who is evi dently a wit, says that a multitude o * connoisseurs are running around to the different churches iu that city to hear the music without paying for it. These connoisseurs are by no means confined to Boston. The Pope has been invited to remove the Papal chair to Quebec, and it is rumored that he would not be averse tb establishing himself in some part of America, tbe United States being prefered. The Roman Catholic'population of this country is 6, 370,858. Dr. Morgan’s new American EpisooEal church, in Paris, will be a very andefome edifice when completed, which will be soon, as large subscriptions have recently been received, many of them from Dr. Morgan’s many freinds in this and other cities on this side of the Atlantic. Dr. Dana, of St. Paul, traveled 886 miles to preach the sermon at the installation of Rev. C. M. Sanders over the Congregational Church, Cheyenne, Wyoming. Cheyenne was nicnnamed “Hell on wheels” when it had 100 saloons and no chnjches. It new has seven churches and but twenty saloons, Some naturalists in Alaska have found it difficult to secure a skeleton of the sea otter, because the natives believe that when thay kill an otter they must cut oft the head and throw it into the sea or their canoe will be lost.

De Foose, of Paris, has introduced a paper covering lor furniture. It is made in imitation of Cordovia leather, and is said to be so effective in its purposes as to promise competition of textile fabrics for upholstery work. Spfecial poisons are secreted by the toad, newt, frog, etc. M. Baul Bert has collected a liquid from the glands on the neck of the frog, which causes the death, with convulsions, of a spai. row to which the substance had been administered. Some observations were lately made in a balloon, by M- de Fouviele, on an opaque cloud which covered the region of paris foi several days. The cloud was hardly 300 metre! thick. The upper part of the guide rope was covered with hoar frost. The mean temperature of theuloud was 5 degree. In 1879 the product of fron *in Virginia was 169,683 tons, and the State ranked as twelfth amotffc the iron producing states. In 1880 the product was 182,326 tons, and the State rose to the eigth rauk. The figures for 1881 are not known, but they will exhibit a rapid stride toward the front. It is stated that in Mexico wooden railway ties cost $ 50 apiece, and that some of the Mexican National Railroad last May are now decayed and unsafe It is said that it has been found cheaper to order iron tfes, worth $3 each, from England, than to use wooden ones. In coppering cast-iron M. Weil uses a bato of copper sulphate rendered strongly alkaline with an organic acid added to prevent the precipitation of copper oxidy. To effect the same object M M. Mignon and Rouatt employ a distinctly acid solution of a -double salt of copper and any alkali with an organic acid. To harden steel take two tea spoonfuls of water, one-half teaspoontul of flour and one of salt. Heat the steel enough to coat with the paste by immersing it in the composition, after which heat it to a cheery red and plunge it into soft water. If properly done the steel will come out with a beautiful white surface.

The Muster Zeitung recomends in preft-rence to the treatment of glue with nitric acid the following: So-cail-ed gelatine is dissolved in the water bath in its own weight of strong vinegar, a quarter part of alcohol and a very-little alum, This glue remains liquid when cold, and is much used lor cementing mother-of-pearl, horn, etc. upon wood oriental. According to the Manufacturing Chemist Association of the United States the capital invested in the chemical industry is 185, 000, 000; the annual prductiou is worth $118,000,000: the number of manufacturing establishments is 1,346, using 6,000,000 tons of coal, and employing 30,000 working people, whose wages amount to $12,000, 000 a year. The congregation of a Canada church brought an action at law af;amst a man who had rented a pew n which he was In tbe habit ol sleeping and snoring so as to disturb the people’ to compel him either to abate the nuisance or to stay away. The court decided that be had a right to remain awake and listen to wmat is going on, or to take his ease in slumber. “If that decision Is sustained,” The Christian Advocate thinks, “ the result will be a mighty argument for free seats.” On March the i the Moravian brethern commemorated the four hu,ndred and twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding at Kimwald, on the barony of Litifz, in Bohemia, of the associaation named “The Brethern and Sisters of the law of Christ.” The name of the new society was soon after changed to its present form, “The Unity of brethern, ” because the title was understood by some, espeically by the 'gcorant peasantry, to imply that the association was a new monastic order.