The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1876-01-07
Scientific Notes.

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A strong solution of sulphate of mag
nesia gives beautiful quality to white
| wash.
| Ladies should remember that each num-
Der of kid gloves comes in three shapes,
viz. short-fngered, medium and long-fn-
gered. Undressed kid are much cheaper
than the dressed, though not so handsome.
White oak timber cannot be procured by
England in sufficient quantities and dimen-
sions in Canada, SO North Carolina and
Tennessee are being resorted to. Black
walnut is also in demand for the same
| quarter.
In the vegetable world the reed runs up
in season, and is frail; the oak in GEN.
tury, and is as solid as the hills; SO the
slower the human body is in reaching its
maturity, the more durable is the constitu-
tion and the longer the life. s.
One drop Of the essence Of bitter al
monds will communicate an agreeable taste
and smell to an ounca of the castor oil of
commerce, and will not at all affect it's med
icinal action. Persons taking this medicine
should order it to be thus favored.
To clean nubia take wooden bucket,
fill it half full of wheat flour: then dip
your nubia up and down in the -four until
it looks white, shake thoroughly, when it
will be as nice as new, and will not have
the drawn appearance which washing gives
Leaves of the pineapple, now being ex
tensively cultivated in the East Indies, are
turned to account by being converted into
a kind of wadding, which is used for up.
holstering, instead of hair. A sort of fan
mel is also manufactured from them from
which substantial waistcoats and shirts can
be made,
An excellent hair tonic, preventing the
hair from falling out, and at the same time
stimulating new and healthy growth, is
made as follows: Scald tso ounces of
black tea with one gallon of boiling water;
strain and add three ounces of glycerine.
half an ounce Of tincture of cantharides
and one quart of bay rum.. Mix well by
shaking, and then perfume to the taste.
An ink for marking linen, etc., which is
proof against chlorine, may be prepared,
according to DIR. Waltz by dissolving eight
ounces of extract Of logwood in water, and
adding one-half an ounce of yellow chro-
mate of potash and one-fourth of an ounce
yf ehromate of copper, and evaporating the
mass until it begins to thiclxen, and finally
adding one-half an ounce of varnisb.
The German washerwomen use mixture
of two ounces turpentine and one ounce
spirits of ammonia, well mixed together.
This is put into a bucket of warm water,
in which one-half pound of soap has been
dissolved. The clothes are immersed for
twenty-feur hours, and then washed. The
cleansing is said to be greatly quickened,
and two or three rinsings in cold water re-
move the turpentine smell.
The chief officer of the Signal Service re-
ports that eighty per cent of she pre-
dicticns made BY " Old Probs. y during the
year past were verified by the results. The
Signal Service Bureau has arranged the
weather programmes for the country for
i've years, and the chief officer feels bold to
assume that its reputation as a useful inst;-
tuition is established.
dynamite, or giant powder, invented by
Nobel, . Swedish chemist, is finely pnl- |
verized slick, on silieious ashes, or infuso-
rial earth (most frequently the last), satu- !
rated with about three times its weight of
nitro-giycerine, and constituting mass re-
sembiing damp Graham bread. The shock |
can be impaired under pressure III con
fined space, but when ignited in the open |
air 1t burns with nitrous fumes. It il nan
ally exploded BY . Illuminating cap on fuse, |
and leaves q white ash with little Of no |
smoke. Il is now generally recognized As
the safest or all explosives, although, in GER
tain circumstances it is equal Or superior to /
nitro-g glycerine, and neither FIGHT, electric
ity, nor light shocks causs II to decompose
or explode. II Ii not affected BY pro- |
longed temperature Of io0o, but when care
lessIy made there Ii danger of an excess of
glycerine, which may BE- the cause Of serious /
accidents