The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1873-10-16

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have the flowers bloom. take the buds
at night and cut off the end sealed
with wax, and put the buds into
water wherein a little inter of salt
has been dissolved; and the next
day you will have the pleasure of see
ing the buds open and expand them
selves, and the flowers display their
most lovely color and breathe their
agreeable odors.
r. HAMMERING IRON TO MAKE IT
RED HOT. In his lecture on'. Heat,
delivered recently at the London In
stitution Mr G. F. Rodwell alluded
to singular case of motion trans
formed into heat, namely, the render
ing Of iron red-hot by repeated
strokes of the hammer. If Mr. G.F.
Rodweli, who is so we'll versed in
the history of science, will turn once
more to the works of Robert Boyle,
he will see that this '''father Of chem
istry" had notions of transformation
of mechanical movement into neat
very nearly akin to, it, if not quite
Identical with. those professed at the
present day. Robert Boyle alludes to
rapid development of heat in an iron
nail by repeated blows of hammer
after it has ceased to travel into the
wood. 1t has been asked whether
iron could be hammered cold until it
become red-hot. Having requested
a blacksmith to try the experiment, a
piece of very tough iron was ham
mered with moderately heavy ham :
mer: it became hot but would not
scorch piece Of paper. it was then
hammered by two men, one of whom
used sledge hammer, but with no
better result. Presently man, who
was working in the shops said he had
often lit his forge tire by this means
before matches were plentiful. He
took nail, such as is used for horse
shoes, and offer hammering for less
than two minutes with light ham
mer, part of the nal'was brought to
a light red heat. The blows were
light but frequent, end the nail was
partly turned at each blow.
NATURAL SUCTION PUMP. Living
stone, the African traveller, describes
an ingenious method by which the
Africans obtain water in the desert
"The woman tie bunch of grassto:
one end of reed about two feet long.
and insert it in hole dug as deep as
the arm will reach. then ram down
the we sand firmly around it. Ad-
plying The mouth to the free end OF
the reed, they form vacuum in the
grass beneath, in which the water
collects, and in a short time rises to
the mouth. 1t will be seen that this
simple but truly philosophical and
effeclual method might have been APP
piled In many cases in different
countries where water was greatly
need to the saving oflifr. 1t seems
wonderful that it should have been
now first known in the world, and
that it should be habitually pract
iced in Africa, probably for centuries
1t seems worthy Of being particularly
noticed, that it may be highly I'M
portant to travellers in our deserts and
pralrles' on some parts of which water
Is known to exist below the SUI, face.
ONIONS AND ToMAToEs. Toaa-
toes are susceptible of being cooked
in many ways. To the wrl,er's no.
ton the glorifcation of tomatoes is
to cook them with little finely chyp
ped OMEN. Ofcourse there are many
who do not tolerate onion under anv
circumstances, bu, let those VINO like
both onions and tomatoes try if. The
flavor OF each, the onion and tomatoe.
seems to modify the other and the
result IS, to our individual notion.
what james Russell Lo ell descibed
poetry to be-"a touch beyond.
The body of Michael PheIan. cook
of the wrecked schooner w. r. Wbal
Ing, was found on tuesday, s;x r,;l,.,