Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1877-04-19
Industrial Notes.
A Fort Dodge firm are engaged in the
manufacture of potato oil.

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A Fort Dodge firm are engaged in til
manufacture of potato Oil.
! There is considerable excitement i
Rushford, Minnesota, and neighborhood
lover the reported discovery of silver nca
that place. Several specmrus have bee
sent to Philadelphia f.r assay.
1t is said that Dsre connected wit
tile observatory AZ Copenhagen has dis
covered a mode of sending any number 0
Itelegraphic messages over the SINE wire
by the simple method of plcking eacl
message ina different key, with the ait
of tuning forks. Il
DR.. Potter, of Griffin, Ga, has invented
an electric motor which IS intended t,
|supercede the Use cf steam power. lii
invention is TO deeompose water by
electricity into vapor more powerful
than steam. By the same motor he pro-
poses to generate burning gas, better
than the gas Of the companies.
AN American firm is sending to Eng
land flour packed in paper cases. They
are less than hall the price Of wooden
casks, and much lighter, and very durable.
The process has been 2atentcd by ITS in.
ventor. German residing in Allentown,
pennsylvania, who also claims to be able
to employ them for the storage and ship.
ment Of fluids.
Sour-mllk jewelry is the freshest Bos
ton fancy. The milk comes from diaries
in the cheese making counties of New
York, and in the form of curd looks like
popped corn. ColoriDg matter is intro
duce''; and the butter, after being sub.
Jected at a high temperature to enormous
pressure il transformed iuto American
coral and jet.
Milk, dri,d in cakes thoroughly, and
then ground to fine powder and mingled
in suitable proportions with farinaceous
substances. such as oatmeal, is among the
latest OF European preparations for use
on long voyages. The powdered milk is
said to keep, if properly protected from
mois! air, almost indefinitely. Various
dishes in which it forms an ingredient are
spoken OF as very p ,latatle.
There is no end 10 the attachments OF
science. The last thing out is female un-
dtrcl0thes all in one p.ece, consisting of
shirt and drawers. A La Crosse editor
informs us that these double garments are
not handsome to look at on person.
They arc. however, very handy and COM
Portable, and great saving. The saving
il shirt tail alone. that has heretofore
been OF no earthly use, except to tuck in,
is enormous. In these hard times every
inch that is saved even on the humblest
shirt tail. helps to pay off the National
;ebt.
The bridge between Brooklyn and New
York will he 5000 feet long, the central
span being 1895 feet long, and 135 feet in
height. 1t will be s. feet wide, including
= promenade 13 feet wide, two railroad
tracks, and four wagon or street car
tracks. The approach on the Brooklyn
Size, from the terminus to the anchorage.
Will I've S36 feet. and On the New York
side, 1888 feet. 1t is expected the bridge
will be completed the present year, and
hat it will cost about $4,000, 900.
Prof. Pliny E. Chase lately delivered
he second lecture of his course on "Les-
sons of the Centennial at the Franklin
Institute. Beginning with q historical
account of iron industries, he referred to
Tubal Cain, ian instructor of every arti =
icer in brass and ilon," about 800, B. c.;
:hariots of iron, and the giant Og s bead
stead of iron, about 1850, B. c.; saws,
axes and filters of iron, 1880 B. c.; iron
work in Britain, A. d. 120; iron pillars in
India over 1900 years old; the importa
tions of iron and steel from China and
Powtica in the times of the Roman
the common use of steel ar
rows by the soldiers of William the Con-
queror; the me Iiaeval iron works of
Quentin Matsy and various unknown
smiths, and the revival i'll England about
the time of the first International Exhi-
bition of the ornamental treatment of
iron, which had nearly become
one of the ''Iost arts"