Connecticut western news., 1871-08-11
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A French inventor proposes compost ton of glue, honey, water and glycerihe as a vehicle for the colors used in printing-ink, instead of the ordinary oil or varnish.-It is stated that the only establishment for the manufacture of plate glass in this country is ct Lenox, Msss.-Last year we imported more than ninetesn million pounds of jute, at . cost of three millions of dol lars. though the plant could readily be raised at the South, where it is used exten- sively for bsle-cloth. Bees are now sent by mail, confined in square block of wood. with suger holes bored in it and covered with wire gsuze.-French gold leaf does not exceed the 4s0, booth of an inch in thickBess.-The leather interest in this country amounts to more than two hundred millions of dollars annually, ex- ceeding every other industrial pursuit ex- cept agriculture. inch of rain falling upon an acre of ground supplies it with about a hundred tons of water.-The Con- missioner of Internal Revenue has decided that the dust produced in the tobacco manu- factories, which cannot be made into snuff or put into any other shape absorbable by the human system, may be disposed of to farmers for fertilizing purposes.-In Mon tana, farmers have beer unable to plant ali their grain on account of the scarcity of help.-lthas been calculated that the fences of the United States have cost an amount equal to the present national debt and that the annual repairs of the same absorb some two hundred millions of dollars.-Speaking of fences, the Chicago and Alton Railroad has about one hundred and fifty miles of Osage orange hedge along it's line, and is steadily adding more.-Professor Boettger of Germany tests the genuiueness of silver plating on metals in the following manner: the metallic surface is carefully cleaned, and drop of cold saturated solution of bichromate of potash in nitric acid is placed upon it, and immediately washed of with cold water; if the surface is silver, . blood-red spot of chromate of silver is formed, whereas on German silver or Bri- tannis metal, the stain is brown or black Mir. Whitehead. the inventor of the fish torpedo, has sold his device to the English Government for seventy five thousand dol lars.-Peter the Great was born on the 9th of June 1872, and an industrial exhibition is to be held next year at Moscow, in honor of the bicentennial anniversary of the event and among the articles exhibited will be the famous boat made by the Emperor, which is still in good state of preservation at St. Petersburg. Europe has 45O, ,O0O miles of telegraph wire. and Ia, 900 stations Amer ics, lSO. 900 miles of wire, and 5000 sta tions; India, IA, 900 miles, and POO sta tions; Australia, 10000 miles, and 27O stations; and the extension throughout the world is at the rate of 100, ,Ooo miles of wire per annum; to say nothing of 30, 900 miles of submarine cable now in successful operation.-The Pennsylvania State Med ical Society has rescinded it's resolution denying recognition of female physicians, or of medical men who consult with women or teach female students.-Photography is used in the United States Pension Bureau to detect those who attempt to get double share of pension money.-In England, the extent of land covered with trees has in- creased forty thousand ares in the last
 thirty-five years, and tree planting is en- cOuraged among landholders by liberal pre- miums.-In Italy, seaside hospitals for poor scrofulous children have been estab lished by charitable persons; and of 29O children treated last year at these establish ments, l02 were cured, and 79 materially beneitted.-After more than a year of careful investigation, . Government Con- mission in British India has decided on gauge of three feet and three inches for the railways there; which extends the mar row-gauge system to nearly ten thousand miles of road. Chignons and kindred vani ties of .he hairdresser's art have recently been made of spun glass, which has the advantage of being cleaner than any of the materials hitherto used.-A party from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, headed by President Runkle, and consist ing of Professors Ordway. Rockwell, Rich ards. and Hyatt, with fourteen students of mining and metallurgy, has started for Colorado and the adjacent regions, where they will be occupied in scientific research and practical work until about the first of October has one mile of railway for every five square miles of her area--Dr. W. H. Searles recommends poultices of tealeaves, moistened with hot water, as preferable to all other remedies in the first stage of burns and scalds.
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