Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-02-07
Art and Science

Hard rubber type is said to be manu-
featured at Dalston, England, at one-third
the cost of metallic type and of equal
durability.
The feat has been accomplished of TAX
ING photograph ola cannon ball in its pas
sage from the gun when fired. The ball is
shown just pfoturding from the muzzle of
the gun.
An enterprising Connecticut man has
succeeded in curing beef in South Amer
lea so that it can be safely put up and
brought North. 1t costs, cured, cent and
half per pound.
Boston is to have another statue. The
Journal says the Everett statue has been
completed in clay by Mr.. Story, and is now
ready for casting at Munich. 1t is expect
ed to arrive in May.
A cracked bell producing disagreed
BILE, Earring sound, is repaired by saving
or fling the walls of the rent so that the
slightly -disparted edges may not be
brought together by the vibration Of the
blow
Pure sand, such as is used on floors,
should be employed by benevolent people
instead of ashes on slippery sidewalks
Ashes make a sticky, uncleanly paste
while wet, and return in fine corrosive
dust to lungs, garments and goods, when
dry. z''e' IL as9@ t9l4 is
There is fresh effort being made in
Cleveland to finish the Perry statue by
placing on either side the two figures
designed and modelled for that purpose.
The two figures, a sailor, and midship-
man, were for time on the pedestal in
plaster. r. ~ ~
AT recent meeting of, the Polytech-
mic Society, DR.. Rowell stated that a cubic
mile of water at temperature of 40o Fab
renheit, was 100000 tons heavier than the
same amount at 500 Fahrenheit, and
5000, 900 tons more than a cubic mile at
60o Fahrenheit.
1t is not generally known that the
leaves ola geranium are an excellent appli-
cation for cuts, where the skin is rubbed OIL,
and other wounds of that kind One or
two leaves must be bruised and applied to
the part, and the wound will be cicatrized
in a short time f-a
AT some of the towns On the western
lakes the surgeons that get too stale for
market are sold on the wharves to the
steamboat stokers, who thrust them into
their furnaces, and add greatly to the
ferceness of the fire. Twenty Of these
large fish are said to be equal to cord OF
wood in raising steam
The differences in metals is surprising.
Although copper alleged SO as to come TN
der the term bronze, has been made hard
enough to receive and retain an edge, so as
to be used for cutting instruments, yet it is
softened by being heated and plunged in
cold water, while iron and steel is hardened
by precisely the same process.
The usual impression that wet seasons
are unhealthy, is contradicted On the au-
thority of compared meteorological and
and medical records, showing that the
more rain the fewer deaths, and gSce ger8a.
Intermittent fevers in malarious localities
have been observed to prevail worse in
dry than in wet seasons. Diarrh@
and cholera are asserted to follow the same
law.
Newest among what Mr.. Tennyson
calls the " fairy gifts of SCIENCE" is an in
vention of Mr. Hyett, to make trees imbibe
color while growing. The results were ex-
hibited lately at the c07ayerSagio3ae of the
Cirencester Royal Agricultural College, in
the form of beautiful sections and planch-
cites of wood stained with various hues.
Metallic salts are introduced into the sub
stance Ofthe growing trees, apparently car
ried up by the sap, and forced into the fibre
and cells of the stem.
A physician at Bordeaux, France, has
succeeded in finding something good even
in the much despised wasp. This offensive
insect is said to be an enemy to all poison
GUS flies, the sting of which causes carbun-
Gle. 1t also destroys an immense quantity
of minute worms that get into fruit, which
when introduced into the stomach may
cause great inconvenience and even dis
ease; and it's sting is a sovereign remedy
for govt, sciatica and rheumatism, but how
to apply the remedy he retains as profess
sional secl ct. ~1
1t is curious fact that iron, and even
steel, can be welded by pressure, or by
pressure combined with friction or rubbing.
This may be seen in the action of the nail
machine where two or three nails or tacks
come together between the header and the
dies. In this case we may saw across the
the sections of the connected tacks with
out discovering any evidence Of separation.
So sometimes the steel point of an upright
shaft turning under a great pressure will
weld itself to the step if this is of similar
metal to the steel. es-es
One Of the most ingenious, among the
parlor amusements which science has re-
Gently given to society, is called TIE Little
MOrod. 1t is tiny steam engine that
room when it is submitted to the flame of
the toy boiler which accompanies the APP
paratus. The affair is perfectly secure and
harmless, and is as safelin a child's hand as
an adults. 1t is, in fact, a copy, in minia-
ture, of the machine by which some of the
Paris theatres are deodorized and perfumed,
and so made free Of the close, gassy smell
that always hangs about all places of
amusement
!. The American astronomers Of the coast
survey have determined, by means of the
trans Atlantic cable, the difference of Ion
gitude between Valentia, Ireland, and
Hearts Content, Newfoundland. The diff
ference has been found to be two hours,
fifty-one minutes, fifty-six seconds and a
gitude between the different points of Eu-
rope and America may be determined with
rigorous exactness. The duration of the
passage of an electric spark by the Allan
tic cable is the third of second this is
ascertained from astronomical observations
made at the two extremities of the cable
i'm July, 1864, an apparatus for boring
rocks with diamonds was patented in
France by Lescot. 1t was not practical, but
later improvements by Pihet, towards the
end of 1865, made so. AsnoW construct
ed it consists of an iron tnbe, one end of
which is attached to a rod serving as ham
die, and at the other end is the edge, armed
with a series of black diamonds of Siberia,
which are set in such way that by turning
the tube by means of a machine, they ex-