The free citizen. (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-08-07
CURIOUS AND SCIENTIFIC.

RdoE is now coming into use for brew.
ing purposes. The beer produced from
it is said to; be- superior in color and
hayor.s ! @ @& Eg - ~ 8Eg p
AT Middletown, Delaware, an immense
peach refrigerator is to be- built, CO.
pable OF holding 100000 baskets of
fruit, which the protector guarantees to
keep BY q peculiar freezing process for
six months.
In one of the French departments
there is q society for the protection of
birds useful to the farmer" All nests
found are reported to the society and
protected by it. In the past year the
society protected 214 nests, from which
came 904 BIRDS,
THERE are two million bee.hiyesi in
the United States. Every, hive yields,
on an average, little over twenty
pounds Of honey. The average price at
which honey is sold is 25 cents O pound.
80 that, after paying their own board,
our bees present us with revenue of
over $500, ,OO0.7 n YF'} '1FST n u
1T is stated now TINT tile secret force
which the Keely motor operates by is
nothing more nor less than tcarbonic
aold. The water is enormously charged
Wlthiit, and then it is liberated by,a
simple process, in such Quantities and
strength as the operator may desire.
so that, after all, the basis of the whole
business is nothing but tremendously
strong soda:water. .tS,
ANsold lady in New York particularly
desired that n certain cushion on which
she sat inc church should be buried with
her, and there was q difficulty about
getting 1t Into her coffin it was luckily
Proposed to cut itp when seyeralz,thou.
SAND collars in greenbacks came to
hight. The old lady was clearly re.
solved that, if she did bring nothing in
to the world, she would at all events.
as ia Tar as possible, take something out
GUNS and rifles may easily be cleaned
from lead by the following: If a muzzle-
loader, Stop up the nipple or communi-
cation hole with q little wax, or if q
'breech-loader insert q cork in the breech
rather tightly; next pour some quick
silver into the barrel, and put another
cork in. the muzzle, then proceed to roll
1t tup and down the barrel. shaking it
about for q few minutes. The mercury
andg lead will form and amalgam, and
leave the barrel as clean and free from
lead as the first. day it came out rof the
shop. The same quicksilver can be
tused repeatedly by straining it through
wash.leather; for the lead will be left
behind in the leather, and the quick
silver ;Yia be again fit for use.
TuE French utilize chieken feathers
IN the following way, which is pro-
anouneed decided Improvement. on the
Old method: The plume portion of the
feathers are cut from the. stem by. means
OF ordinary hand scissors. These are
placed in, Quantities in n, course bag,
which, when full, is closed and sub
lected to a thorough kneadipg with the
sh.andssS at the end Of five minutes the
feathers disnggregated are feited to-
gether, forming a down almost homo
egene9ofurls' Is 81 and Of great lightness.. It is
oggald to be lighter than natural elder
down, because the. latter contains the
irlba OF the feathers, which gives extra
sweight.l About one and six,tenths. trov
EouAceH,can beyobtained from one pullet.
and sells in Paris for about two dol.
lars n ponndS ~ 6 @
.FA2TARsiE1s4 boy in Ohio, observing h
small flock Of quail in kis fathers corn
field, resolved to watch their motions.
Hhey pursued very regular course in
Of the feld, taking about i've rows, and
following. them uniformly to the oppo-
site end, returning in the game manner
4oyer, the next FIVE rows. They contin.
ued in this course until they had ex-
ypIlored the greater portion of the. field.
vsIhe lad, ssuspicioqs that they. were pull
4ngj pupi the corn, fired into the flock.
hAing Fbut one Cufi them, and. he pro,
ceeded to examine, the. Eground0 q lin the
Whole space over which tleyyh trav-
-eledy he. found but. one stalk OF. corn dis.
sarbed. .ThisWas early scratched ont
q me ground, but the ground still 6ds
:,4efed TO i. In the. .oraRf Of tbs quail he
pdoundhone cut-lsoln twenty: one striped
,He vme, Pngs, and one hundred chinoh-
q oGgsp, o'o nun single grain OF corn.
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