River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1872-08-23
Curious. Useful and Scientific.

In India, where singing insects and
sever crawling reptiles are often
wounding people, they apply chloro-
form on dossil of lint, which speedily
allays irritation and perhaps neuJralizes
the poison. Why not try it here?
A REVOLVING oven is in course of con-
struction at the Ohio Penitentiary.
which, completed, will be of sufficient
capacity to do the baking for over one
thousand men. 1t can also be used for
roasting meats and other cooking pur-
poses.
A BILL Incorporating the American
Motive Power Company has pass ed both
houses of the Legislature OF Cannecti.
cut. The company design making use
OF compressive air as a motive power,
and the air is TO be obtained BY the use
OF wheel to be propelled BY the tide,
and wheel has been invented. by Mr..
Bushnell, of New Haven, for that pur-
pose.
A CAREFUL analysis by Prof. Chandler,
of Columbia College, New York. made
by request o. the Postmaster General.
sets at rest the current story that there
is anything poisonous or hurttul in the
several ingredients or processes used in
the paper, printing or cumming of
postage stamps.
The occasional item that goes the
round of the papers, that an eyed per-
son has cut new teeth, is thu. explained:
1t often happens that teeth break or
ID nd et,, Il.
The gum closes over the place, and the
incident is, forgotten. AS years 90 by,
the jaw and the gums shrink; the long
buried stump is in consequence laid
bare, and is hailed as a new tooth, and
mentioned as kind of wonder.
A PROCESS of wood.carving by ma
chinery has been introduced in Paris
by one NJ. Lanteigne. 1t is adopted 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 a delicacy and effect that
compare fayorably 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.
ELEVEN classes are now in active
operation in as many mining centers in
Cornwall, teaching chemistry, mineral
ogy, and geology to more than q hun
bred miners. Measures are to be taken
to bring the mining agents together at
regular periods, in order to compare OBJ
servations and results, and to discuss
the scientific bearings of subterranean
mining phenomena.
A vULTURE can fly l59 miles an hour.
Observations made on the coast of
Labrador convinced Maj. Cartwright
that wild geese could travel 80 miles an
hour. The common crow can fly 25
miles, and swallows, according to Spal-
langain, go miles an hour. 1t is said
that falcon was discovered twenty.four
hours after the departure of Henry ".
from Fontainebleau. If true, this bird
must have flown for twenty-four hours,
at the rate of 81 miles an hour, not
allowing him to rest for moment dur
ing the whole time.
The intense hardness of the black,
unclearable diamonds, which are used
in boring machines and for dressing
millstones, is such that single one has
been employed for more than a year in
dressing pair of French burr mill
stones, daily, without perceptible wear
or diminution of cutting power. The
application of the diamonds to boring
and drilling is due to Swiss engineer,
NJ. Leschot.