The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1874-01-16
Science and Industry.

An Albany man has invented a process
for making paper boxes from the pulp
without seams.
An invention has just been perfected
In England which allows a diver while UNI
der water 10 converse with those above.
The c0lored citizens of Providence.
K. L.. have formed cooperative associa-
ton and opened a joint stock grocery
store.
"A company i organizing in London
for the purpose of purchasing large tracts
Of land in the mineral region Of West Nir-
glnia. They propose 10 sell farms. clear
of timber. and work mines Of coal, iron
and other minerals.
Nineteen large houses. intended for
light manufacturing purposes, have been
built on a plot of ground i'm a workmcn's
district in Paris. All combine dwellings
and workshops. and are supplied with mo-
tive power from one steam-engine. They
are constructed on the most approved SAM
tary principles, and have "A light, pleasant
aspect.
The value Of the sewage of a city like
Liverpool. if properly utilized, is said 10
be worth fully S7JO,0O0. and somebody
suggests that the sewage of the United
States might be used 10 help pay off the
national debt, estimating the annual
waste in the sewage department at $780,
600, 900.
The latest improvement in burglar
proof safes j. TO line the interior with steel
rods which reyolyc easily. After drilling
through the outside casing Of the safe the
bit will strike ONE of the rods and be de
Elected from its course. IL will either not
take hold or will be broken, thus prevent
ing the lock from being cut out.
M. Austin states that glycerine mixed
with the water in the boilers of steam-en-
gines prevents the deposition OF the line
salts. and consequently protects the boilers
from incrustation. About one pound of
glvcerine TO every three hundred or four
hundred pounds of Coal burnt is said to be
sufficient for this purpose.
The Minnesota State 'Geologist COM
forts the present generation of Americans
with the assurance that there Is enough
iron ore in the ncighborhood of the Black
River Falls in that State 10 supply the de-
mand for at least ten centuries TO come
Beyond that time our interest in American
prosperity is very limited one.
The application of electricity for the
reduction of metals from the ores has been
patented in England. BY regulating the
electric current in a proper manner II J.
claimed that east iron, wrought iron or
steel can be produced directly from the
furnace without any intermediate opera
ton. This pudding by means of an cleo
tric current will occupy from ten TO fifteen
minutes only. instead of several hours. a
in the ordinary pudding by hand labor or
machinery.
Sewing is taught with gratifying sue
cess ia the Winthrop Girls School on I!N-
mont street. Boston. The school has
nearly one thousand pupils, and i the
center of an intelligent and respectable
population. On the lst of October the
study of sewing was begun in all of the
classes. each of the eighties classes de-
voting two hours to their sewing lessons.
While they are working the teacher reads
aloud on some instructive and entertain
inc subject. In the four upper classes, be-
sides simple sewing. cutting and fitting
are taught. there being a table and nipple
mcnts for the purpose.