Scientific.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2185, 10 July 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)

Scientific.

A n [Lin e Wi ne. — Two men have been ar-iv-I 0.l in Rochester, (U.S.) on the charge of violating the levenuo law in selling without a liceu.se. They testified that they sold to saloons about 100 gallons of a drink made by this receipt: — Put about sixteen gallons of water into a common w.ish boiler, add forty-eight pouuds of sutrar, one pound of tartaric ucid, and some aniline dye for colouring. After Stirling with a stick until dissolved, add a quantity of orris root, cut with a pint of alcohol to give the flavour of raspberry wine. The htuff has been sold more than a year as raspberry wine. S( he Throat, — Everybody has a cure for thia trouble, but simple remedies appear to bo the most effectual. Salt and water is used by many as a gargle, but a little alum and honey dissolved in sage tea is better. An application of clothes wrung out of hot water and applied to the neck, changing as often as they begin to cool, has the most potency for removing inflammation of anything we ever tried. It should be kept up for a number of houis ; during the evening is usually the mo*t convenient time for applying this remedy. To Pkeskkve C.m'ET.s. — Carpets should be frequently shaken, as dirt uucler them grinds out the threads. Do not, however, sweep oftener than is absolutely necessary. Use a brush and dusting pan. To clean them, dry flour rubbed in, or fuller's earth, will bo found efficacious. Mix it in a paste and spread if on (with a knife) wet ; cover it with a cloth, or paper pinned over to prevent tracking it arouud ; leave on a day or two ; if not then removed renew the supply, aud scrape carefully off when the grease is removed. Cleansing Powder. — A good cleansing powder for' show windows, which leaves no dirt in the joints, is prepared by moistening calcinated magnesia with pure benzine, so that a mass is formed sufficiently moist to let a drop form when pressed. The mixture has to be preserved in glass bottles with ground stoppers, in order to retain the easy volatile benzine. A little of the mixture is placed on a wad of cotton and applied to the glas3 plate. It may also be used for cleaning mirrors. Tensile Strength of Ice. — Herr Frubling, of Konigsberg, has given the tensile strength of ice at 23 degrees Fahr. as between 142 pounds per square inch. Its compressive strength, found by cubes of over 2 inches at the same temperature, varied between Gl pounds and 204. S pounds, a mean being 14S pounds per square inch. The small boy knows perfectly the average transverse strength of ice in thin sheet 3, and that without any elaborate investigation. To Take Cinders from the Kye.— In most cases a simple and affective cure may be found in one or two grains of flaxseod, which can be placed in the eye without pain or injury. As they dissolve, a glutinous substance is formed, which envelopes any foreign body that may be under the lid, and the whole is easily washed out. A dozen of the seeds should constitute a part of every traveller's outfit. Col'tov vSked On..— S. S. Bradford has discovered a New test for this oil, which is certainly simple enough. Mix solution of subacctate of lead with the suspected oil and Jet stand for 12 or 2i hoim ; if cjtlO'i s; od od )ie present, the oil asstrnes a reddish colour, similar to that ot freshly m,\ilo tinctnrft of myrrh. With pui c oin c oil no .such change takes 4. ico.

NnvER did a m.in yet want weapons, who had a good aim and a stout heart. — R ibelais. Tub John* (Jockkrtix Company, at Sermng, in Bolizium, and tho Cail Works at, Pan-v in December last, challenged the Krupp Works of Essen, (iernvvny, to a test of artillery made at their respective works, the tests to be made before an inter nation il commission of artillery officer?, ftti'l tbe report of tho resu tt to be puh-li-'.-tl. iL> ii. p has not ado.. At, skwyb thio ctuLx,u{jo.