Show EDIT brik bRIA NOTES while americans na i have e been sweltering a w 1 lieb 1168 and swearing under the n nineties ln e t the h thermometer ern in the east bast iud lud indies 1 has peela been commonly marking deg in n the shade cloves are pro produced d u ade d I 1 in h b be e islan isian islands d s of zanzibar and bemba where the tree was first brat introduced about 1830 the total tota tots average quantity produced la Is about pounds valued at ik Is stated that geraniums kept in a room will vill drive aw awny away ay flies fites if f this as is true every evely ovely house and every office and store in utah Ufa hought ought to be beautified with geraniums who knows whether ther then the them statement statement is correct according to statistics published by the danish government there are now head bead of cattle less lees in the kingdom of Denmark than ten ien years ago horses horbes remain about the same fri humber number while sheep and swine have considerably increased an official statement was made in the english parliament a week ago ako to the effect that the known number of deaths from the famine in india foat goolup up the tho he terrible sum bum of one million three hundred and fifty thousand and that the actual number is probably many more 1 vulcan the inter Mercur mercurial lai lal 1 planet demonstrated by le verrier aud abd discovered by watson is estimated at ff miles from the earth and miles from the sun its yearly journey round the sun occupies about thirty of our dwy day which gives it rather a short year A reward of hasteen has been given by a 9 belgian scientific jury tom toMMe ibena laena for an effectual remedy in mercury and lead poisoning it is the iodide of potassium which sa said to change into soluble form the metallic deposit and eliminate it from the system this ot ought to be known in every mining region in the world while the recent heavy rains in wisconsin Wis contin and minnesota spoiled the crops and thus lii lil lured the farmers the lumber lumbermen rylen rilen reaped the good results of the storm the rivers were so swelled in volume that log drivers were able ro float as much lumber asin the early spring this Thi will swill cheapen building carte rial ria bot sot bho fco the I 1 ib calamity has its ita compensations after all sugar test for the presence of dangerous organic matter is mentioned by high authority as simple and sufficient place a quantity of the water iu in a clean glass bottle adda few grains of pure sugar and expose to the light in the window of a warm room if juthe the tho water becomes turbid even after exposure for a reject it if it remaina remains clear elear it is safe the law permitting an accused person to testify in his own case I 1 worked badly for a prisoner on trial for theft in new york last week he was acquitted as he would have been had he held bis hid tongue but he lied io s 0 palpably that ho was committed to await trial on a cha eha charge rge of perjury it will serve him right light if he is convicted now the in body snatching done in has bug eug I 1 i an invention for the krotec j tion of the dead it is a torpedo so arranged that the fhe disturbance of the grave or the commin coffin will not af feet it but as soon as the corpse is moved a spiral spring explodes a cap and a load bf buck buckshot thol salutes the iut lut intruder tuder if this method Is gene gebe generally rally raily adopted body will soon be numbered among the lost arts I 1 another case cafe of au supposed apo ed kidnapping has occurred at germantown philadelphia the place from which charley ross boss oss disappeared johnnie odonnell a small boy disappear T cd ed on ion the ath insl and is supposed mohave been stolen by some gyp who had been in the neighborhood no clue has been foundton found to his whereabouts and his parents are in the deepest grief while hundreds of have joined in an unavailing sea search ach for him philadelphia will soon be called the city of kid instead of the city of love iove 21 lightning rod men will be mad when they read this thia note some french farmers at tarbes have been experimenting with bundles of straw tied to long sticks or broom handles and ana placed upright on roofs 0 of houses the trial of this simple expedient was so ry that eighteen communes com of the district provided all the houses with the apparatus and not an ac lie eldont has since occurred in the he neighborhood from the device toay not be very ornament or namen t tal tat but its useful usefulness nem might be widely tried with little trouble and no expense the medical record mentions a remedy used by dr S A Brow Brown not of the united states navy in cases of suffering from poison ivy or poison oak jt it is bromine which he has used with unvarying success he uses the dru drug t dissolved in olive oil or glycerine in the strength of from ten to twenty drops of bromine to the ounce of oil and rubs the mixture gently on the affected parts three or four times a day the bromine is so volatile that the solution should be renewed within twenty four hours from its preparation the erupi i tion never extends after its first thorough application and it promptly disappears within a ty hours if the application is persisted in and the patient is en it A citizen of detroit his invented a s machine for the prevention of d damage mage from sparks and cinders arising from locomotive smote stacks this thia will prove very valuable if effective the free press gives the following description of ot the lne apparatus z it is placed in the tho rear real of 0 tho the smoke stacks and at cached to it and consists in the maia main of a revolving or oz wheel bout two feet in diameter aud and 30 inch face the surface af pf this wheel is kept constantly wet by Y means of a spray pipe running horizontally along the llie whole width of its face and is placed directly in iff line of the out flowing sparks and cinders which coming in eon con conal contact e t with uhe the wet surface are arrested extinguished and carried ario arlo around iund lund by the wheel frem from which th they e y are rie I 1 0 removed by a scraper and conveyed by a pipe to tue the road bed or the furnaces if desired the of water used is so small that no additional reservoir need cd ed the spray pipe is supplied with water direct from the boll boli boiler erthe the pressure being ample and can be regulated at will as to quantity hot water and steam com cona birlea bi ried being the most effectual extinguishers the entire apparatus ia Is neat compact and easily at cached to any locomotive at a trifling expense |