Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1871-04-20
Curious and Scientific.

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PAPER and cloth of excellent quality
are now extensively manufactured in
Austria, from simple corn husks.
MASSACHUSETTS has machinery which
represents the labor of 100000, 900
men, but nothing to do credit to the
| labor of the other sex.
| AN improved dove-tailing machine
| has lately been patented which is capa-
BILE of making four hundred drawers
per day.
AN eminent British physician recent
| " publicly stated his belief that death
| from drowning under ice is one of the
most rapid of deaths, and is completed
| he believes, with SO quick an extinction
| of consciousness as to be actually pain
! less
| COPPER and brass may be coated with
zinc by immersing the article to be
coated in boiling bath of shannon
lac containing either sheet or powdered
zinc. The zinc thus deposited is bril-
liant and firm.
! A FIFTY-THoUsAND-P POUND hammer is
being placed in position at the New
Albany Steam Forge Works. Under
this monster hammer is embedded
eleven thousaed feet of timber, and
upon the sides is nine thousand feet,
making in all twenty thousand feet of
heavy oak timber for foundation.
| TYPOGRAPHY is new art invented in
England, and consists, as the name in
dicates, in printing by fire through
| g {,1, xryhfn }.,1ry
into the wood any design required,
which is indestructible. From it's
nominal cost and great beauty, it seems
likely to take the place of much of the
expensive ornamentation and inlaid
work now done by hand.
HERCULES powder is a mixture of
carbon, sulphur and nitre reduced to
an impalpable powder, and so incorpo-
rated with glycerine as to produce
stiff paste. 1t does not explode when
brought into contact with fire in the
open AIR. but burns slowly, and it may
be hammered harmlessly on hard wood.
When confined and fired, however, it
bursts the inclosing vessel with ire
mendous force. Experiments with it
were made day or two since at Santa
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cacy. Pieces of iron weighing half
ton were blown to a distance of 200
feet, and piece weighing 1,2O0pounds
was carried 300 feet by the force of the
explosion.
The disguised drains, falsely called
medicines, sold in bar-rooms as "ton-
les" and stomachics," have nothing
in common with DR.. WALKERS VINEGAR
BIrTERs. That famous invigorant does
not owe its stimulating properties to
fiery and adulterated Alcohol, but to
medicinal roots and herbs never hereto
fore combined The effect of the Bit
ters in cases of constitutional debility,
chronic Indigestion, liver complaint,
and all diseases tending to consumption,
is so marvellous that except to those
who have felt or witnessed it, the result
seems incredible.
The CURE OF CATARRH. Take one
part finely pulverized salpetre, and
mix with two parts white sugarreduced
to -four. This is an etfectual remedy
IN all stoppages of the head, catarrh,
etc. 1t must be snufied up the nose q
dozen times or more a day, according
to the severeness of the affection Per-
sons frequently die from catarrh in the
head, the disease becoming SO bad that
the mucus, instead of discharging
through the nose, as it should do, falls
down the throat and lodges on the
lungs, producing many p sore throat,
the cause of which is not suspected,
and terminating fatally, in many in
stances, in that most dreaded of all dis
eases, consumption.
AN Ohio farmer has Just plowed up,
in breaking new ground, a stone,
shaped like high shoe or boot, with
hole at the top through which the hand
can be passed. Some persons who
have seen it pronounce it an accidental
formation, while others advance the
theory that it is the work of the
" Mound Builders" or people who
lived before the Indians.
PROFESSIONAL bank burglars have
perfected and are now using, both in
England and this country, small and
delicate instrument that registers the
combinations of the single and double
dial bank safe lock whenever the safe
to which it is attached is opened. One
OF these instruments was recently
| found on safe in one of the large
! financial institutions of New York, and
when examined had already recorded
all but one figure of the combination.
1t appears that the burglars had OBJ
| tanned access to the room at night by
false keys, removed the nobs and dials
from the safe door and substituted ex-
| cellent counterfeits. One Of the coun-
terfeit dials had space one-eighth of
an inch deep on the inner surface, con
tanning the recording instrument. The