Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1871-04-20
-Curions and Scientific.

troit establishment is composed of over
: 1000 red, white, blue and emerald
prisms.
, PAPER and cloth of excellent quality
, are now extensively manufactured in
Austria, from simple corn husks.
MASSACHUSETTS has machinery which
, represents the labor of 100, ,O00, 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-
bic 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 a boiling bath of shannon
lac containing either sheet or powdered
zinc. The zinc thus deposited is bril-
liant and firm.
A THOUSAND 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 a new art invented in
England, and consists, as the name in
dicates, in printing by fire through a
system of metallic cylinders, which burn
into the wood any design required,
which is indestructible. From its
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 q
stiff paste. 1t does not explode when
brought into contact with fire in the
open air, but burns slowly, and it NAV
be hammered harmlessly on hard wood
When confined and fired, however, it
bursts the inclosing vessel with tre-
mendous force. Experiments with it
were made day or two since at Santa
Cruz, California, and showed Its eff
cacy. Pieces of iron weighing half
ton were blown to a distance of 200
feet, and n piece weighing l, ,200pounds
was carried 800 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 DIR. WALKERS VINEGAR
BrrTERs. 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. one
part finely pulverized salpetre, and
mix with two parts white sugar reduced
to -four. This is an effectual remedy
in all stoppages of the head, catarrh,
etc. 1t must be snuffed up the nose
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 q 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 piowed up,
IN breaking new ground, 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
80 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 q 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
strip of prepared paper had caught and
prevented the dials from working. The
shoemaker was called in and removed
the dials before the trouble was detect
ed
The Santa Cruz (Cal) Times, of
March %, relates this: "Cn Saturday
last the fishermen at the Sequel beach,
while hauling their seine, caught a very
strange fish. A gentleman who saw it
informs us that it was four or five feet
long, with a head somewhat resembling
an alligator. The mouth would open
very wide, and a sort of kissing noise
proceeded from it 1t had two fiery
like eyes of -yellowish color,
with two horns of hard bony sub
stance protruding from each side of the
head. The body was slim and long,
and it had four web feet, the legs being
stout and short. Just below the two
hind feet the body separated in two
tails, and ON the ends of each were two
lunches of tassels, somewhat resemb-
ling seaweed or coarse hair. 1t was
very spry and lively, and the men were
at first afraid to touch it, but finally
one of the men approached it, and
struck it over the head with an oar aud
killed it.
THE extraordinary severity of the
winter has driven, in Poland and Rus
sia, large numbers of famished wolves
close to the suburbs of the large cities.
The Princess Sapieha was travelling
with her maid and coachman in a sleigh
from Warsaw to Lowiz. on the 18th of
january last, when suddenly eight or