Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-11-30

DC addressed 10 my ia'neI, TX. W.. ool,
Elizabeth City, n. g."
ALLEGED IMrRovEMENT.-A somewhat
lorid statement comes from abroad, namely,
that in Rouncbeck, Bremen, an engine has
been devised by Herr Trossin which, it is
claimed, will solve the problem that for so
many years has engaged the attention OF in
v%entors, namely, the utilization of super
heated steam in common engines. The an
swer to the problem has, it appears, been
found in the new application OF q physical
law, and the use of a peculiar lubricant. An
engine working with superheate1 steam
needs only half the ordinary amount of coal,
the boiler and CRATE can be smaller by one
half, the supply of water by one-third, and
the air-pump and condenser are equally re-
duced to half their usual space. 1t is stated
that this Improvement can easily be applied
to engines of the existing type, which, if
true, will render 1t of almost incalculablc
value.
INTERRUpTED.-A man dressed in a linen
duster and straw hat came painting into our
office yesterday and gasped, :" Miss-Nis-ter
ed-ed-tor, sn-snoW in Ot-ot-ta-wah tel-lc-
l%egraphed special toto me- and then, shiv-
ering, but quickly recovering himself with
the buster, continued. 81 have an original
idea which I've Weayed into Il poem. Let
me read
1.-The snow, the snow, the uggclly sn---'
He said no more, but disappeared through
the floor. We asked what in the devil it
meant? and our devil came up promptly
with a wicked leer in his eye, and said 81
did it, boss, with my little ratchet. That
maj was heer all las night a-reading' his
pomet to us f%ellers, and we fixed that trap
tur him. The hoys'll set up his death no.
1ice fur nuttin';' and he went out to get a
corporation coffin and a coroner.-Uushing-
7oa Nation.
VITALITY OF SEEDs.-An interesting OBJ
servation, referring to the power OF germi-
nation in seeds which are hundreds and even
thousands of years old, is said to have been
made by Prot. Hcndreich, in Greece. In the
silver mines of Lauriam. only the slags left
by the ancient Greeks are at present worked
of, In order to gain, after an improved mod
ern method, silver, still left i'll that dross.
This refuse ore is probably about2 900 years
ole. Among it the seeds of a species OF
glaucium or poppy was found. which had
slept in the darkness of the earth during all
that time. After II little while, when the
slags We're brought up and worked off at the
smelling ovens, there suddenly arose Il crop
Of glaucium plants, with a beautiful yellow
Hover, of Il kind unknown i'll modern bot
my, but is described by Pliny aud others as
Il frequent flower in ancient Greece.
DRIED EGGs.-A new industry has been
set on foot at Passau, on the Danube. An
enterprising firm has invented Il process for
drying eggs, which retain their iull flavor
and keep for any length of time. The
Prussinn military authorities arc about to
give the new product Il trial for soldiers, ra-
t!ons. The London Ncacs says several Ger
man chemists arc s%angnine as to The success
.i experiment. and pronounced TIE eggs 10
ieesslaoEe OF their valuable qualities b. the
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