The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1868-01-23
Arr and Science.


Colonel Hoe is fitting up press to
| print On both sides of sheet at the same
time.
| An ingenious Freedman has patent
| ed an Illuminating cane for bachelors who
return home late at night.
-Glycerine (not nitro) is an excellent
| substitute for alcohol, and not near 30 ex-
| pensive, for use in gas metres to prevent
them from freezing.
The marks of pencil writing may be
made indelible by passing the tongue over
it. Even breathing slowly over the lines
| protects them from erasuie.
An experiment in the use of petro-
| leum as fuel, in mill at Guelph, Canada,
has been abandoned, a weeks use showing
| that from five-sixths of barrel to barrel
| per hour was required to drive forty
horse power engine, which was considera-
| bly, more expensive than wood.
DR. Henry M. Field, of New York,
| concludes paper on "The Continued
Fever" with the following pithy statement,
| which, it is said, contains in nutshell the
| at the present day: eve cannot cure
fever. No man ever cured fever. 1t will
often cure itself. If you keep the patient
| alive long enough he will get well him
self" -
The astronomer, Dr. R. Luther, of
! the Blk Dusseldorf Observatory, discov-
| cred, (November 23d, nine o'clock p. N. J,
! between the Pleiades and Hysdes, new
| planet, being the sixteenth discovered by
| DR.. Luther 1t was named Arethusa by
| Professors Herren, Gale and Gunther, of
Breslau. Of the ninety five little planets
known at present between Mars and Ju-
| piter, twenty seven were discovered in
France, twenty three in Germany, fifteen
| in England, eleven in Italy, one in Den
mark, fifteen in the United States of Amer
| lea, and three in Asia.
How to have glue always ready for
use: Crack up the glue and put in a bot
tie add to it common whiskey; shake up !;
cork tight, and in three or tour days it
can be used. It requires no heating, will
keep for almost any length of time, and is
at all times ready to use, except in the
coolest of weather, when it will require
warming 1t must be kept tight SO that
the whisky will not evaporate. The usual
corks or shoppers should not be used; it
viii become clogged. A tin stopper, COW
ering the bottle, but fitting as closely as
possible, is better,
"A Frenchman has invented simple
process for obtaining ice. He pours water
into bottle till it is half full, and then
subjects 1t to the action of an air-pump
AS the vacuum is produced, the water
loses the air it contains, and is at length
vaporized. The air and steam, drawn off,
| passes through cylinder containing
sulphuric acid, which instantly absorbs
all the watery particles as they pass. The
| outside of the bottle is soon covered with
dew, the temperature of the water falls. q
few needles are seen swimming about in
| it, and Immediately afterwards it loses ITS
transparency, and ice is obtained.
M. Simonen has published some curl
GUS statistics relative to the production of
coal. He shows that in England the guam
| ty of coal produced in 1859 was sc, 0OO, 900
tons, and in 1854, % ,000, 600 :. that in Bel
GUM $500, 900 tons were produced in 1S45,
$500, 900 in 1860, and 100000 in 1883 :
and that in France the quantity produced
in 1843 was 100000 sons, in 1859, $780,
600 tons, and in 1865, 100000. From
these and other facts, M. Simonen con-
cludes that in England, Belgium and
France, the amount Of Goals produced is
doubled every fifteen years. in Prussia
every ten years, and in the United States
every five years. 81 ~