The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-08-01

and waste cotton are rendered perfectly
pure, odorless and m~erchantable.
1T Is stated that the introduction Of
glycerine into boilers increases the solu-
bility Of the lime-salts, In certain cases
forming soluble compounds. When the
lime-salts are precipitated In boilers thus
treated, the salts assume the form OF gela-
tinous, non-adherent masses, and can
therefore be more readily removed.
The microscope of highest power is
an instrument OF recent manufacture,
which amplifies four thousand times with
the lowest ocular. 1t Is said to give suf-
ficient light and good definition though
its working properties are as yet but little
known. Perhaps, after all. the dream of
proving the atom by occular demonstra-
ton Is destined, by and by, to be fulfilled.
The climate of any given region Is
well known TO depend not on astronom-
ical causes alone, but also 10 a create x-
tent on geographical peculiarities. The
proximity of the sea orof great mountain
chains, the relations of oceanic and at
mospheric currents, modify profoundly
the temperature of a district. and may,
moreover, render it either rich with fer
tility or a barren waste.
The right of individuals to issue scrip
as a local circulating medium was recent
ly considered in a case before the United
States Court. at Jefferson City, Mo. The
defendant, who Is a large employer at
st. James, had paid his employees, 'for
the sake of convenience" in scrip, re-
deemable at his store upon presentation.
The suit was decided against the Cefend-
ant, and a fine of 500 was imposed.
Two Russian ladies-Misses Olga
Stoff and Sophie Hasse-have been inves-
tigating the circulation Of she spleen, by
means of injection and microscopic ex-
animation. Their researches were made
on the spleens of frogs, pigeons, rabbits.
mice. rats, and various other animals, as
well ms of the human subject.
Iron surfaces may be gilded by the
use of sodium-amalgam the iron is first
rubbed with the sodium-amalgum, the
surface OF the iron thus becoming ANAL
gamated. a strong solution of chloride of
gold is then applied, and the whole heat
ed until the mercury is volatilized the
gold surface which remains may then be
highly polished; by a similar treatment
with a silver or platinum solution, a sur
face of these metals may be obtained.
-Tripler's patented process for pre-
venting rot in wooden pavements consists
in saturating the wooden blocks with
chloride of arsenic, or arsenic and chic
ride Of sodium. The bottom planking
and the sand between the blocks are also
to be saturated with the same material,
which is antiseptic and preserves the
pavement from decay. IL seems to us
that the remedy is worse than the disease.
Think of arsenic dust as an addition to
the ordinary pavement dirt, wherewith TO
I'll the mouths of citizens.
The feebleness of growth and lack of
vigor which mark the brief existence of
most city trees, may possibly be due-as
suggested by a series OF experiments late
" tried in Berlin-to the presence in the
soil about their roots of street-gas, which
has escaped from the pipes laid near them.
In the experiments here alluded to, ii
was found that il only twenty-five cubic
feet of gas a day be allowed TO distribute
itself over one hundred and forty-four feet
of ground, having an average depth OF
four feet, the disastrous results of its
presence will soon become evident i'm the
death of all trees and shrubs, the rootlets
Of which penetrated he infected soil
Moreover. IL is stated that the firmer and
closer the soil the more disastrous the re-
suit.
MIR. Stall, who has lately conducted a
series of experiments with a view TO
fastening the ripening offruits, announces
that this result may be obtained by less
ening the depth Of the earth about the
roots of the fruit bearing trees. As an in
stance, it is stated that the ripening OF
pears on an early tree was fastened by
simply removing the earth for a circuit OF
fifteen feet about the roots, the soil being
left the depth Of but two or two and one
half inches above the roots. The theory
is, that, by thus almost exposing the
roots. they receive more warmth from the
sun, and these, by the frequent applica.
ton of water. are more active in supply.
ing the life-giving sap to the fruit above
Interesting as these results appear, we
confess that we are hardly prepared to in
dorse them, and yet the repetition OF
the experiment may so readily be accom-
plished that any interested reader might
with little difficulty aid toward the estab'
lishment, or, If need be, the demolition Of
this new theory Of growth.
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