The Osceola times., 1876-02-12
CURIOUS AND SCIENTIFIC.

lila from the wood OF the pine has been
patented, and will be generally applied
in papermills which use wood pulp for
the purpose of their manufacture.
BATH bricks are made from the de-
posits Of the river Parrett, at Bridge
water, Somersetshire. Nowhere else is a
similar deposit found, 50 that Bridge
water supplies the world. The annual
import into the United States is about
2i0, 900 bricks.
AN acre contains $500 square feet.
A tract 209 feet square contains 12l
square feet over an acre A lot POO feet
wide and 2l3.S feet long, or 100 by
1856 feet, contains exactly an acre. A
plow, turning furrow one foot wide,
would go nearly 81 miles in plowing am
acre.
THE death-rate of some English towns
il very high. Thus, while the DEATH
rate for England and Wales generally is
22.2 per 1000, in Bristol it is 26.9; in
Leeds, 2S.7; in Manchester, 32.l; and in
Liverpool, $50. OF children under five
years Of age, 80 per 1000 die annually
in country districts, while in towns the
ratio is 1903 per 900.
THE coolest winters on record in the
United states within the past hundred
years were those of 1880 1886 and 1856,
In 1880 the Delaware river, bay of New
York and Long Island sound were 50
completely ice-bound as to be crossed
with horses and sleighs. The coolest
year was that of 1916, in which there was
ice every month in the year.
GREEN vegetables must he kept on
stones, covered with a damp cloth Beet
roots, parsnips, carrots and potatoes are
best kept in dry sand during the winter.
Never wash them until they are wanted
for use. Onions should he tied up in
punches, and hung up. Take and bury
parsley in jar during the winter, or dry
it, by hanging it up in n warm room.
The artesan well at the Collier White
Lead Works, st. Louis, No., has at
tanned depth of over seven hundred
feet, nearly all of which has been
through limestone. The drift is but
slightly above the cncrinitial limestone,
and has passed through but little of
either sandstone or ebert. The boring
commenced in the lower Archimedean
limestone.
A PROCESS for frightening iron il de-
scribed as follows in German periodical:
The articles TO be frightened are, VIXEN
taken from the forge, placed in dilute
sui phuric acid q TO 20), and then washed
with water and dried with sawdust.
They are then dipped for second or 50
in nitrous acid, washed carefully, and
rubbed clean. Iron thus treated ac-
quires bright surface, having u white
glance.
| CoRY-rED hens do not lay in winter
for the simple reason that there isn't any
albumen material in the corn. When
wheat is fed there is fat enough in it To
supply all that is needed for the yelk,
and gluten enough to make the white,
and lime enough to furnish the she'll. II
does not seem difficult TO understand
why corn-ied hens should not lay, as they
do not, and why wheat-fed hens should
lay, as they do.
RECENTLY, at Petroleum Center
Pennsylvania, a fve-thousand-b barrel
tank, in which five thousand two hun
drcd barrels of oil were placed five
years ago, was cmptied of its contents,
after a rest since 1870. Thirty-seven
hundred barrels of merchantable
crude was obtained, showing that
fifteen hundred barrels had been lost by
evaporation, sediment and other causes,
a decline of nearly % per cent.
| An accidental discovery of great i'm.
portance, if verified, has been made bv a
French veterinary surgeon, who, noting
| hnt ha nd 4 :.
invariably to spare cattle affected with
cowPox, has vaccinated number of
oxen Us n preventive measure, with the
result that mot one of the twenty-five
beasts successfully inoculated has, up 10
this date, shown any sign of foot-and-
mouth disease, although living among
animals largely infected with it. d"
a NUMBER of years ago young Iowa
farmer dislocated his limb, which was
not properly reduced, and left his leg
two short, which was heightened out
with cork sole and heel A few days
ago a wagon ran against him, the wheel
hub striking him on the defective hin
and knocking him over. When he arose
his leg was two inches too long, and he
was obliged To remove his cork extension,
the wheel having reduced the dsloca-
tion. He walked home Immediately.
| THF stock of seeds for the coming sea
son should be procured as soon as posi-
bic. If left until seed time is at hand
much delay may occur, rs secdmcn are
then crowded with orders. A good plan
is to send TO some respectable seedman
for a catalogue, and select some well
known standard kinds for the main crops,
both for the garden and the fields. II
any new varieties are tried, q small quan-
tity should he used at first, until it i
known that the soil and locality are IA
vorablc. Make list of all that is needed
at once.
lN answer to the question, "Whv are
farmers 50 liable to rheumatism the
Science of Health says: Because they
wear wet clothing, heat and suddenly
chill the body, over-eat after very hard
work, and because they do not keep the
skin in vigorous, clean and healthy
condition. II farmers would avoid sud
den cooling the body after great cxertion,
il they would be careful not to 90 in wet
clothing and wet feet, and it they would
not ovcr-eat when in AN exhausted con-
dition, and bathe daily, using much fric-
tion, they would have less rheumatism. 4"
DIR. ULrzMANN, teacher at the uniyer-
sity of Vienna, lately read paper before
the medical society of Lower Austria, on
the Use of Photography in Medical
Studies" He mentioned, on the author
ity of DIR. Nogel, that an eruption of
small -pox had been made evident by