The Osceola times., 1879-02-08
MISCELLANEOUS.

Sventy tons Of chewing gum were re.
| quired to keep American jaws moving dur
ing the year.
Toads and frogs were originally intro
duced into the sandwich Islands to exter>
inmate cockroaches.
| Specimens OF Florida beech sand have
! been tested in northern glass factories, and
| found e. answer the needs Of such factories
admirably.
Iron railway sleepers are said TO have
proved, both in India and in England, Uuch
che per than wooden ones. Their gradual
adoption is predicted.
A Belgian physician, appointed to re-
| port on the prevalence Of color blindness,
attributes that disease to the excessive aud
general use of tobtccO.
France iorbids the manufacture or sale
| of earthen ware, whether french or foreign
| glazed with q layer of lead oxide melted or
| imperiectly vitrlfed, and so liable 10 yield
| lead to weak acids
1t is stated that the Salisbury process
for using the residium OF petroleum for fuel
has proved failure, aud that even in the
original experiments in the Brooklyn navy
yard no petroleum was used.
NJ. Care, Of Paris. finds il necessary to
extend his establishment for the maRufac.
ture OF carbOns for the electric light. There
are more lhau 800 feet of cIbons per day
turned ont at his works az present.
The alarm felt in some quarters lest
the lawyers should devon the land its inhab.
itants is not very keeny experienced as to
| the Delaware legislature, which has doctor
for speaker of the house, but ne',r lawyer
in either chamber.
The supreme ,urt o. Missouri decides
that all the seven hundred lawyers in st.
| Louis are as clearly lab = to TAXATION as
mt rchauts, hucksters or auctionters an I
must pay their annual license fee o. S25
demanded by city ordinance.
Itis sta,ei thai ia Iroquois county, Ill.,,
| 81, So 900 gallon Of water are supplie daily
py ariesian wells for the irrigation OF laud.
| These walls do not in any in tsDce exceed
seventy five feet in depth they are OF small
bore, aud within radiu- of 20 miles there
are 200 of them.
India Is said to possess con nvenient tree
called the "kapas," which is used MS tele.
graph post. When cut down, its branche,
| partially removed and stuck in the grouud,
| IL readily takes root, thus checking the raw
ages OF the white ants, and becoming liv>
ing telegraph post.
Millstones msde of glass are German
novelty. Eight pieces OF glass equal siza are
used as nuclei; a counter piece of granite is
bound TO the outer form with cement. The
advantages claimed are thai they run easily,
grind cool, aud produce fner, lighter aour
then french burs. But few are in actual
! operation.
Engineers Of steamships have found
that the best lubricants are glycerne for
the cylinders and castor oil for the bear
| ings. When castor oil is used the main
bearings seldom become heated. Only the
tage, but when ii is of a high grade the
results leave bat little I, be desired.
Some matches are made without sui
phur, thus avoidin the offensive smell Of
that material. A German composition fol
this purpose consists of phos horus, foui
parts; water, TEN fine glue, six; red ochre
or red lead, fve smalt, two. The ingre'
dients, in the order named are inco' porated
with the liquifed glue to form paste.
The baby.csrrisge is condemned by
the Berlin physician in cases where the it'll,
Lone sits facing the nurse and is pushed back
| ward. The natural desire Jf the eye is q
draw nearer to what il sees, and the prsctic,
of reversing this normal order Of things, snt
causing surrounding objects to recede, i
liable TO affect ininriously the development
Of both sight and brain.
Plated silver IL obtained by rollin.
together plsts OF copper Of the first qaslit,
and one OF silver; these are either welded o
simply united by placing their hot and clesl
surface together. wstted WITH concentTa