Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1873-10-11

winch pfOUu man must NOT uafe 10
brave, which hunts him out of the ice
kingdom as mercilessly as he hunts its
furred and feathered creatures, had set
in. So the ship heade homeward and
one day late in September she sailed up
the Humber, with a garland hanging
from the masthead, in true whaler
fashion. Spectator.
CURIOUS AND SCIENTIFIC.
ApARrg Of scientific men has, accord
ing to the London Times, recently Wis
tied the famous Crossness well-boriDg III
London, an undertaking Of great inte.
rest to geologists at large as promising
to throw light upon the unknown rocks
which succeed the Gault clay in the
London district. The present depth Of
the boring is nine hundred and fifty
feet, and it may be mentioned that at
this depth the cost of boring amounts tc
ga per foot.
The way nails came to be designated
BY the word "penny,' as regarding
size, is thus explained In the early
history Of our country all nails were
wrought (forged by hand; our currency
then was pounds, shillings, ence and
farthings. Each sized nails We're sold
by so many pennies per hundred. The
usual way was to ask for for-penny
nails, six-penny, ten-penny, etc. Hence
in mercantile circles the sizes are desig.
mated by the price in pennies per hun.
dred. When cut-nails were introduced,
the sizes were still designated by pen
MES and this has been continued, and
in all probability will be as long as nails
are used.
Uses OF PURPURINE. .-Purpurine can
be used for dyeing cotton, wool or silk
Of a black, red, rose or lilac color Cot
ton is printed with the usual nader
mordant, colored and soaped at one
hundred and twenty-five to one hundred
and forty-four degrees to restore the
whites and clear the colors. Passing
through bran improves the whites.
Wool is mordanted in alum and tartar,
or bichloride of tin and tartar, and dyed
by boiling half an hour in a purpuring
bath. A little tannin may be added
with advantage to the mordant. For
printing WOOL about three hundred
grains cf purpurine and sixty grains OF
carbonate of soda are dissolved in
hot water thickened with starch,
and increased to about one quart,
printed and steamed. For crimson,
alum and tartar are used as mordanis.
Silk takes colors beautifully, especially
reds, by mordantipg with acetate Of
alum and chalk, drying and cumming
slightly with tragacanth solution lone
to two hundred), printing with a solu'
ton of four hundred and eighty grains
purpurine and one hundred and eighty
grains crystallized carbonate Of soda in
water, filtered and thickened with three
thousand grains of roasted starch, then
steamed and soaped at one hundred and
forty-four degrees.
THE pollution of water by typhoid
e.ccreta has long been established, and
the fact that water is the transporting
agent in the spread of many diseases.
The British medical association, stimu.
lated by the Marrylebone epidemic,
have recently discussed the spread OF
the fever by means Of milk. In Dr.
Billiards. report on the earlier Islingtor
outbreak, he created some amusement
by suggesting that the foul water had
probably been used to rinse out the
cans. On subsequent occasion the
same explanation was for time ac
cepted: but it was ultimately discovered
that the milk in that case had beer
regularly diluted with 10 per oent, o.
water. That which is supplied by the
company which is responsible for the
Marylebone outbreak is obtained from
farmers of responsibility and substance
and is tested in London before it is SEN
out. If dilution we're detected thu
milk would be returned to the farmer
and it is quite certain that no dilutiol
on large scale can have been practiced
But DIR. Ballards suggestion abou
rinsing the cans will, in the way that op
peration is performed, account for thu
presence of perhaps half pint of wa
ter in each and there is the obvious
possibility that labors employed abou
the dairy may substitute small quaint
ties of water for milk on their own &C
count. The dilution here suggested
could not be detected by any of the or
dinary tests, because it would keel
within the limits of natural variation.
A New ASLGNE RED.-According t
F. Hamel, the addition Of few drop
of chloride of sulphur to 375 grains o
anilino, in flask, with continued, care
full stirring. produces, in from five t
ten minutes, sometimes Immediately,
red solid, which, when treated wit
acetic acid and filtered, gives a re,
liquid that yields on evaporation bril-
liant black substance, soluble in aceti
acid, ether and alcohol. Addition G
water to its solution in any of these pre-
duces a gray precipitate.
THAT President Grant won't let Il
know what he thinks af the Third tern