The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-06-19
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

INDIA is said to possess a convenient
tree, called the @kapas," which is used
as q telegraph post. When cut down.
its branches partially removed and stuck
IN the ground, it readily takes root.
thus checking the 'ravages of the white
aats and becoming a living telegraph
post. gaaa >toi l2h5 ~
A CORRESPONDENT of the Rural Ne,u
Yorker says: Il have seen salt recon-
mended to be eaten with walnuts. so as
to prevent indigestion, but / think l
prefer eating the walnuts without any
such condiment. If lovers of nuts of
any kind will drink a cup of sweet milk
after eating them, they viii not expert
ence any unpleasant sensations, and can
eat great many more with impunity."
A GERMAN periodical is responsible
for the following method of making
malleable brass II Thirty three parts Of
copper and twenty-five of zinc are al
Logged, the copper being first put into
the crucible, which is loosely covered.
AS soon as the copper is melted, zinc
purified by sulphur is added. The al
10y is then cast into molding sand in
the shape of bars, which, when still hot,
will be found to be malleable and cap
able of being brought into any shape
without showing cracks f .l'o
M. TERQUEM, a French artisan, has
originated a method of writing on glass
with common or India ink. The glass
is heated over spirit lamp, or gas, until
steam ceases to be deposited on it, that
is to say, 50 deg. to 60 deg. Cent. and
a varnish, composed of eighty grammes
of alcohol at IS deg, four grammes of
mastic in drops, and gramme Of gum
sandarac heated together IN q flask, is
then applied to the glass, after the fl
tering of the varnish; the latter is very
hard. and becomes brilliant and COM
pletely transparent, but, if applied cold
to. the surface of glass, it remains
opaque and absorbs ink. A sheet of
glass thus prepared may be written up
on with ink, but must afterward be
dipped in very thin gum water. ''.'
Few persons familiar with old books
have failed to observe dark specks here
and there upon, or rather within, the
substance of the paper, which, upon
close examination, especially with q
lens, are seen to have the same dendritic
appearance that we find in moss agates,
and upon the naturallyfractured sur
face Of other compact rocks. It is well
known that such markings on the stone
are generally produced by an oxide of
manganese; and the similar markings
upon the paper are doubtless due to the
same cause. The followingis suggested
as an explanation: Bioxide of man
ganese is sometimes used in some of the
processes of bleaching the pulp. Mi
mute portions Of the mineral would nat
urally remain in the manufactured pa
per, which by slow reaction would be
restored to an oxide again, in the pro-
cess of which it would assume its
characteristic dendritic form. =
PERIoDIC1TY IN COMMERCIAL CRISES.
1t may be accepted as pretty well de-
termined that there is periodicity of
commercial and industrial crises that
they occur with singular regularity
after a certain lapse of time. Prof.
Stanley Jevons has found that in pc
Rod of 165 years crisis took place
every ten years. Why crises thus occur
is yet unknown. In ,Jevon's opinion
neither wars, trades uniens, excessive
speculations, luxurious living or any
other Of the commonly assigned causes
can be regarded as sufficient. Any
physical explanation is yet merely
speculative. In examining a problem
of this kind it appears to be difficult for
most writer's to avoid confounding the
caa1sa coa1aoscenti with the causa es-
semdi. Others, departing altogether
from the semblance even of scientific
method, lay the responsibility of a
crisis on the shoulders of some class of
persons who are really as unable of
themselves to arrest or occasion it as
mole to influence the inclination of the
earth's axis. Most of the pseudo ex-
plantations can be readily exposed by
showing that they do not take into &C
count all the facts-that what may ap-
parently suffice for what is local and ma
tional fails when applied over the whole
area of crisis. The periodicity of
crises is yet an unsolved problem of
physics and politics.
The FOOtman Who Wouldn't Announce