The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-07-05

ARTIFICIAL leather is now made from
the scraps and cuttings Of leather cut.
tiers. Il is claimed that the leather
thus made il equally as good for soles or
betting ~ the original.
A FRENCH scientist argues that man
kind are not lit TO be trusted with
steam, and that moral and physical de-
generacy will invitably result from the
changes which steam has produced in
civilization. XE 'tN&
AN0A0 the most remarkable of dis.
coveries in photography is that claimed
by one johnson, an Englishman, who
is said 10 be a man of extraordinary
mechanical genius. The invention is a
panoramic camera, which, by ingenious
mechanism, sweeps the whole land
scape and takes it on plane surface,
embracing on one negative one third
Of the circle. The exactitude of its
operations is as singular as the beauty
OF the results.
The addition OF dissolved sulphate of
quinine to gum arabic is said to prevent
the formation of mold quite as effec-
tually as carbolic acid, while it imparts
no unpleasant odor. 1t could, perhaps,
be advantageously used in ink, mucil.
age, paste, and glue.
The first manufacturer Of steel pens
by machinery was Mr.. Joseph elliott,
OF Great Britain. When he was young
man, and grinder in Sheffield, steel
pens were curiosity, and being made
by hand labor only, We're sold for 3s. cd.
apiece. The factory established by Mr..
elliott is now able, alone, to turn out
l5OOOO,OO0 pens year.
Mr.. HENRY HENNEsEY attacks Sir Will.
liam Thompson's attempted demonstra.
ton Of the earths rigidity. He claims
that Thompson's assumption of fluid
incompresslbility is no more philosoph.
ical than an endeavor to prove the i'm
possibility of travelling at high rates of
speed, by demonstrating that the shock.
experienced by perfectly rigid carriages
would be too great for endurance.
IT would seem that in heavy storms
at sea iron ships are inferior to those
built OF wood. of forty-two Atlantic
steamers lost at sea between the years
lS4l and 1872, thirty.eight were of iron,
and four of wood. Of the line of iron
ships running into the st. Lawrence
and Portland, nine were lost between
1857 and 1864; and FIVE iron sailing
vessels, all built in Great Britain, and
sent to sea in 1865 and 1868, have never
been heard from.
A VALUABLE and wonderful metal, ap-
propriately called Sterling metal, is now
being manufactured near Hartford.
1t is harder even than cast steel, is not
affected by air or earth, and can be
cast with perfect ease into any form.
Preparations are being made to use it
Tor works OF sculpture, and specimens
are to be sent to the principal bronze
founders of Europe.
CHARCOAL, applied to ose-bushes, has
the effect OF deepening the color t the
flowers. 1t has not the same effect up
on all flowers, but is useful fertilizer.
1t should be finely pulverized.
The Erie (Pa.) Dispatch says: "The
hulk of the Niagara, one of the vessels
OF Perry's fleet, lies near the shore at
the northeast corner of Misery Bay.
1t my be seen when the water is clear"
VEsuvIUs" is the title of recent
work which contains some interesting
data concerning earthquakes. Accord.
ing to this authority, in the fourth cen.
fury there were 2l; in the fifth, Is; in
the sixth, 81; in the seventh, n
the eighth, IL in the ninth, -; in
The tenth, II; in the eleventh, 81 in
The twelfth, 68; in the thirteenth, IS;
n the fourteenth, So in the fifteenth.
IL in the sixteenth, 10; in the sew.
$50; in the eighteenth, $50
n the nineteenth, 9o5.
The paradoxical conclusion of Fair.
oairn and other English experimenters,
hat the brittleness of iron and steel is
not increased by cold, is invalidated by
he fact that the cast iron frame work
If steam engine in Paris, after q sc.
1ere cold night, suddenly snapped in
'hree different places, when the en-.
yineer started the train in the morning.
THREE new asteroids have lately been
discovered, one by German and two
BY American observers. There are now
,ne hundred and twenty of them. Men
If science calculate that at least thou.
'and are floating rcand ready to be
taught as soon as we get telescopes Of
higher refracting powers. By and by
t will be no more to sight an asteroid
han it is now to pick blackberry.
The New WORLDS GRAND RExIpY.-
The Old World has played its part in
vegetable medication. But the botany