The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-08-16
Curious, Useful and Scientific.

SIR ISAAC NEwTos's scientific papers
have been presented to the University
Of Cambridge by his heir, the Earl Of
Portsmouth.
NICARAGUA has lake Of mineral wa
ter, which is said not only to cure
cutaneous diseases, but to take away all
appetite for liquors.
A NEW Spanish dictionary, intended
to be complete, devotes to the word
ojo, eye, fifteen royal octave pages, Civ
ing citations from Lightweight authors.
DIR. III. b. HARE mentions. child
with scarlet fever, who could not be in
duced TO swallow the beef tea which his
condition required. AS he took ice
greedily, the tea was frozen and then
readily takea.
THE new oxy-hydric light, from which
so much was expected, has proved
failure in Paris for practical purposes as
a general streetilluminator, and its use
has been discontinued in the streets of
that city.
AMONG the lots of old copper thrown
into market by the recent advance in
the price of that metal, were twenty
huge cannon of very curious design and
finish. They came from Mexico, and
are supposed to have been in Seville,
Spain, in l746.
Mr.. ALEXANDER j. ELLIS gives in
recent number of the academy long
and interesting article on the pronun.
citation OF the letter o. He inclines to
Prof. Max Mueller's opinion, that the
Romans gave it an immediate sound
between English y and 10.
The California Academy of Sciences
is discussing the origin of the iron sand
found in great quantities on the coast.
One theory is that it was an evaporation
from the sea, and another that it is the
result of disintegration. It seems to be
admitted the sand supply is sufficient
to establish the iron industry in its vi
cinity.
The degree of LID. was conferred
upon Capt. James B. Eads at the last
commencement of the State University
of Missouri on account OF the wonderful
skill and science which he has exhibited
in the construction of the bridge over
the Mississippi, and which has attracted
the attention and admiration of the
first scientists Of Europe as we'll as of
; America.
THE Scientific american describes an in
, vention by Jean Marie Lasche, of Paris,
for expeditiously covering walls, frlrni-
ture, etc., with ornamental designs in
oil paintings or gliding. The painting,
gliding or imitation Is executed of tin
r or other metallic foil, in the work shop
of the artist, and applied to the desired
surface by sticky varnish, or water
7 proof cement, as readily as wall paper.
A PROCESS of wood carving by ma
chinery has been introduced in Paris
|, by one NJ. Lanteigue. 1t is adapted to
all kinds of wood, the harder and drier
the better. The wood is passed through
rolls or matrix cylinders, whereby any
. desired pattern is impressed upon the
surface with delicacy and effect that
compare favorably with the work of
skilled carvers, and at a cost almost
nominal. The process is rapid, as ten
, superficial feet of finished work can be
, produced per second.
The Hartford Courant says: "Among
? the objects of art in the exhibition of
} the Hartford Art Association, there is a
5 lion and tiger by the famous sculptor
! of Paris, NJ. Parve, cast in American
Sterllng metal at NauDuc. rev OF our
e citizens are aware that so near this city
e there is being manufactured one of the
e most valuable and wonderful of metals
D "a metal harder than cast steel, that is
not affected by air or earth, and that
can be cast with perfect ease in any
form. Preparations are being made to
use it for works of sculpture"
: INDIA-RuBBER trees, it is stated, occupy
t a belt of land around the globe for five
/ hundred miles south of the equator.
These trees yield on an average three
tablespoonfuls of sap day, and can be
; tapped for twenty successive seasons.
| They stand so close to each other that
J one man can gather the sap from eight
: trees. In tract of country thirty miles
t long and eight miles wide, there have
e been forty three thousand India.rubber
l trees counted. In Europe and the
t United States there are one hundred
2 and fifty manufactures of India-rubber
t goods, employing five hundred opera.
| tives each, and consuming over ten
l million pounds of gum every year.