The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1872-02-07
CURIOUS AND solEmriFu

CURIOUS AND sclEMrlFI
A Londoner has invented q sire
with strips Of looking glass arranea
roof, somewhat after the manner Of
tian blind. It Is said to throw tlhr
as much light upon the street -
nary lamp.
The Benares (Hirdostan) Ael56s
that . rich Mahajun, named Seth tn
Device, has offered, as an encouraRG
widow-marriage, that all widows
Brahmin and Bhat, and of his on
who wish to marry again and are d
by the expense, may have pecuniaI
on applying to him. This is sensi
;'ractical step, and he ought TO have
il scores to take advantage of his gen
Vclpeau, the French surgeon,
hospital patients whose business fol
years was to be knocked down and r:
In The streets. When they saw q IieI
Gle approaching, and knew the own
wealthy, they would run across th
in such a Tay as to get before the h
be knocked down 2nd carried to
pital, when they would sue for ID
When the money thus gained wad
they would 60 out and get run over
They generally managed to avoid
too seriously injured In this way; YET
every bone In their bodies had been
Some idea may be formed of the 4
of the industrial resources OF England
it is stated that Birmingham, alon(
out in one week, fourteen million p(
thousand bedsteads seven thousand.
three hundred million cut nails, oI
dred million buttons, one Thousand d
five million copper or bronze COINS,
thousand pairs Of spectacles, six toni
pier-mache ware -four thousand miles
and steel wire, ten tons Of pins, i've
hair-pins, hooks and eyes, and eyelei
hundred and thirty thousand gross d
screws, five hundred tons Of nuts,
bolts, spikes and rivets fifty &
wrought iron hinges, three hundred
length of wax for Yestas, forty tons
fined metal, forty tons of. German
one thousand dozen Of tenders, three
and five hundred bellows; one thd
roasting.jacks, and one hundred an
sewing machines. s -'>-.
The USE OF SToRMs.-The widest
of winter do great good By thorough
moving any noxious gasses that un5
about our great cities, and carryind
out to the deep, there to sssufe1
change" and replacing them with q
air. Air and ocean are the two great
ical purifiers Of the world. So, VI
fasten our garments more tightly rou
and hurry along In the peltfng d
flung at US by q boisterous wind,
think Of the -health-giying oxygel
comes on the tempest and while emf
the shelter of our roof, think Of th1
work going on above us in the skyI
whether we wake or sleep. We'll
think Of the mighty operation Of tho
Of God going on ceaselessly for the ID
man and the mass Of living things ON
when we are passive and p0Weriesd
this wind movement Is one or these.-
lin Uisioersity MaSazise. go
ARTIFICIAL IvoRY.-By means OF
pie process, artificial ivory Is new pro-
from India rubber. TIVE pounds q
rubber are dissolved in thfrty-two p
Of chloroform, and the solution u th@
urated with q current Of ammonia
When the rubber has been compI
bleached, the admission of the gas
rupted, the mass is transferred to q
provided with stirrer, inwhich 1t fs VI
with hot water until the bleaching
has been entirely removed. The rem1
product forms kind of froth, which,
pressed out, dried, again treated n
small quantity ef chloroform, Is hnall
tanned as a consistent paste. This ID
now mixed with a sufficient quaint
finely pulverized phosphate Of lime, q
Donate of zinc, until it assumes the aF
ance of moist hour. In this conditon
pressed In hot m0ulds, which it leave
hard to be turned, fled or d
In order to initiate corals, pearls, ems
hard woods, ETC., 1t Is only necessary
the paste with the desired colors previ
10 its being compressed.
AN IMPRovED CoNPoUND FOR WE
has recently been introduced into Bed
1t consists Of 1000 parts Of iron dfi1
parts of borax, 30 parts Of resinous q
IS parts Of salammoniae. The materia
mixed, heated and powdered; the SUI
TO be welded are busted over with the
position and then brought to Q cherrl
heat, at which the powder meltS, wheZ
portions to be united are taken from II
and ioined. Another composition fo
same object consists of fifteen pa,
borax, two parts OF sal-ammeniac, and
parts of cyanide of potassiem. These
stituents are dissolved in water, and
water itself afterwsrd evaporated at !
The tests which have
made Of this composition prove Its sup
value. The welding of copper is NJ
comparatively easy pr0cess according
statement In Dingler's Polytechnic
nal. Hitherto, the great obstacle ex
snced in welding this metal has been
he oxide formed f. not fusible. It has
found, however. by NJ. Rust that the Q
salt gives fasible alag;
his salt being expensive, he has subst1
|. mixture OF one part phosphate OF
md two parts borax, and finds that Y
,wers the purpose very well, althougn|
LAG formed Is not 80 fusible ~ that BY
salt.
The GRAPE-sUdAR INDUS rRY.-The d
lfacture Of grape sugar has assumed Y
In Germany, there Wer9
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