Smyrna times., 1856-12-10
New Improvements and Discoveries.

-. The American Institute Farmers Club has
under consideration plan for fattening ami
mails by means of a mineral oil. This does not |
amount to converting rocks into food, or dis
peasing with the Intervention OF vegetable life
4 between minerals and animals, for the oil in |
question, is extracted from. the Breckenridge
coal. All mineral Goals are of vegetable ori-
! GIN, and some Of them may be more or less i'm
pregnated with animal matter. The mineral
OILS are perhapsn all cases the results afigi-
naly, of vegetable, life, so that if You atptten
your pork from coal field, it is the same as
doing IL from very ancient cornfed.
Bessemer's process of making maleable iron
and steel is regarded in England as successful,
and rights under his patent have been sold to
la'ge amount, But the gulllbllIty of capital
ISIS as well as that Of other people is consdera-
Bile, and the best proofs of success will be the
products, when We get them. The London
Examiner describes an experiment in which
quarter OF. a ton OF iron was produced from the
pig in half All hour, and says:
The experiment is highly imposing, and,
conslderng IN the mere light of pyrotechnic
\ exhibition, we'll worth seeing. The heat pro-
duCed IN the molten mass by the combustion
of the carbon chemically combined with the
cast iron Is immense, and is accompanied by
the discharge of corruscution of sparks com
posed OF curbouic acd gas along with slag.--
And toward the termination vi the process "a
mass OF all the impurities of the iron Is vomlled
from the furnace Ill the shape of slag."
II the Examiner man is good Judge OF
iron as he Is of the composition of sparks, no
mnre ueed be said of the testimony. ..f...,.,
NJ. De Lille of Paris has discovered process
for extracting aluminium by which it can be
produced for one fourth the price OF silver, bulk
tor bulk. .sas.~%
: corrugated llung for carrying of the vapor o
j. perspratlon. lmay be called a ventilated over
: shoe.
The application of Salt Pork as lubrcatol
e to the journals OF railroad cars was patented q
c year ago, and is coming into general use.--
. Can't somebody patent an application to the
!, brains of ra rodd Directors, by which the tele
= graph may he brought into use, so as to pre-
2, vent railroad cOliisons-mstead of leaving tht
s. Inning OF cars to the conductors non-chronom
ii eler watch, which worn in a warm pocket gOe
- TOO slow, and in a cold one loo fast
- o of the most important discoveries or in
le ventlOns of modern times is that OF preserV in
le tember from decay, by filing the pores wlth
RI chemical solution. Ten cents worth of cope
= IN the shape OF a sui phale, put into Il raIiroa
r. sleeper OF the most perishable wood, will ma k
o 1t almost as durable as stone, but the troubi
Is 10 get the sui phate of copper into the pore
nd without sacrificing the cost OF great man
h. sleepers. Dr.. Boucherie, a French chemlS
vn who has long experimental on this sub ltct, hi
. found that the injection Of the sui phate may
= accomplished when the tree is first felled
= mere hydros,atlc pressure. His plan is to sa
Ter the tree nearly off in the middle, then raise
10 up under the saw cut so as toIntrodUcea strin
-, Just inside the bark all around the cut. u
:. letting down the support the cut will close {
" the string SO as 10 make water tight cavlt
lth lie then bores into this obliquel and inserts
he tube leading to a clstern of surphate OF copp
yes elevated about thirty or forty ieet. The Por
H., beng filled, with saps which lssRearly as g0
' solvent as distilled water, the solution so'
OF permeates all OF them which are in connect'
the with the saw cut, aud the arrival. of the copp
at the extremitles oflhe log, is tested by u
ur. application OF "a crystal of prusslase OF pota:
;, which produces red brown mark when It con-
'"e in contact with suIphate of copper. 1850,
g. g.c tf es4- - . . 60 " ''-
p-I, NJ Read what the editor of the Washin
-. ton (Oho) Register says about the editor:
An editor-s great moving p" institooshun
He, has: TO run the gauntlet every week, "
or dry, cold or hot. When he exerts hluls
to the uttaost to try to please the greatest nu
.so ber ten chances to one his efforts prove M
- .a futile. Ths thing and that thing ddm't s
someone, and something else is deemed "
S' nerable to others who possess equally, curlt
"s7 notlous-and SO the game Of critique goes
40 Each week the editor has TO run the track
.. public scrutiny--in other wordshe is putthou
on, The first llne,sandn if he happens not 40
st1 long winded, and does not possess superab
r dance Of that Job-lIke commodity, (patlenc
a he s.certain 10 fag on the back-stretch-tai
air ere the weakly raceis run, and tumble he
y u long into a tub OF g hot water. Experience
ss5 long since taught us this Shortly after
,..a imitation into the fraternity, we gave over
-. iailacous idea OF suffcrlng ourselves to
perplexed at the number OF Viclsshudes I
cling to the. editorial profession; we .conelp
" 10 take thugs cooi-bellevlng discretion to
., the better part to observe IN the rough-and' Y
ble editorial arenas And editor cannet peri
Br, MS duty, uuder all circumstances, without u
y, ing foes--who will insist that something de
-, or left undone, through mistake in his jour
- istic capacity was dictated by wholesale
''nlS Ggnity, Well, if some of the readers Of ne
III, pa pers are Determined to believe, despl
sNtsf'F reason and the common adjuncts OF the q
IN. of liberality and concession, that the lnacc
-: cies, that occur ofien, and ywill occurs' III
s'"e publishing business, were fpromPteddhy pc
.sSlI nal animosy, aud the offended .paruesiare
|" 81 solved to have redress by prescrtpttpn' we
-. hose they must be permitted to follow their
nclinations. .faeaHS2aO So. 4s1.N 'H"' @.9'
J "a s - r-- -,s - . - aT7TsN 4 y
, fret, n1@ysT The Chicago (iff) Tribune gives
.'4a muerfecriist OF teatotally lost. vessels on
were Lakes this season, making an aggregate
.si!J4 q amers, propellers, 2,tugs, 8, brigssan
schooners. Alta low calculation 200 lives
els been lost Several of the VESSELS hdse ii
ais hoe n. heard from sa1eE CEi grGlElaos $50
IN she No. gz ggA :,
Triit - YOU desires' said a young lady To- her
I n a on conditions that you viii give what you,
9Is s. not, what you, can meyer have, and yet !
is in you can give me, What DID she ask Tor
scoun. husband -. I,
sHamsI -. ps.pA Can,
nsnrI 1hs - -. 60 Miss- Philbr,ek, 8
n hap paper.tets -us bow fo"o ,,s haar hodily
1ia"Sia ried the trap away. We have heard p. J