The Osceola times., 1879-02-08

| tion solution of nitrate of silver. The TWO
metals are reduced and drawn out about
| equally by the pressure of rolls, and long
sheets or bands OF silvered metal are thus
obtained.
l. rye type>founderies and extensive
! job printers have declared "boy printers
and amateurs a nuisance" They pay no
rent, taxes nor insurance, and obtain their
| stock at little or no cost, turn out Indifferent
work, which lowers the standard of public
taste in such matters, and which completes
in price with experienced workmen and
high grade printing, to the great disadvan>
tage of the latter.
Professor Wise, the veteran ballOonist,
says balloons may be built Of boiler iron, IL
built large enough. He says it is a battle of
cubes and surfaces. When the surface is
doubled the cube is quadrupled, and balls
loon four hundred feet in diameter, OF
! copper>piate, would lift up msn-of.war
vessel and sail away with it. He predicts
great achievements for Deteorolgy when bal
looming reaches its fullest development.
Sleep has a most wonderful power,
often stronger than the will, as in the case Of
the sleeping soldier, and more mighty than
pain, as when sick persons and tortured
prisoners sleep in the miost of their suffer-
equal TO the prevention of sleep. The
smnunt of sleep needed differs according to
th- con,tituiion and habits. Big brains and
persons who perform much brain labor need
n ! rye amount of sleep. Children need more
sleep than grown people, because construc>
tion is more active than decay in their
brains
In the northwest has been discovered
curious bug that lies concealed in flowers.
and ,iezes bees aud wasps, which il holds at
arms Length, nd from which it sucks the
life. II also destroys plant lice, beetles
butter flies, caterpiilsrs, etc. This species
has been known TO inf ct a painful puncture
or sting on the human hand. 1t is generally
of yellow color, sometimes greenish,
speckled with brown, and is characterized
by immensely swollen front thighs. and by
the last joint of the antenne being swollen.
Its bee-destroying ter lencies are the most
alarming to naturlists.
In China large quantities of oysters
are dried instead o. being eaten in the fresh
state. For that purpose they are taken from
the shells, simply plunged into boiling water
and then removed a. once, after which pros
cess they are exposed to the rays Of the sun
until every particle of the moisture has
evaporated In that state they will keep for
length of time, and are said to preserve all
the delieacy of tn, ir flavor. The finest and
latest bivalves, bred and fed on the leaves
and cuttings Of the bamboo, are selected for
preparation by this method, those taken
from the natural beds being inferior in
quality and not sufficiently plump to stand
the operation.
The Italia Agricola, writing on the
effect of thunder storms on milk, states that
it is generally accepted belief that it is the
Lightning and electrical phenomens that
accompany thunder storm which cause the
spontaneous cosgulation of milk. DIR. Nal
hoern wished to test the idea, and Tor the
purpose he filled cylinder with fresh skim
med milk, introduced into the same one
hundred cubic centImetres of oxygen, and
then allowed electrical sharks to pass into
the apparatus for the space of ten minutes,
by means Of the Ruhmkorff machine, Toe
milk quickly coagulated, clearly proving
that an acid reaction had taken place, and
after twenty minutes firm cheese was pro
dueed.