The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-02-06
MISCELLANEOUS.

Sventy tons of chewing gum were re
/ quired TO keep American jaws moving dug
| ing the year.
TOads and frogs were originally intro
! duced into the Sandwich Islands to exter'
inmate eock-roaches.
Specimens of Florida beech sand have
/ been tested in northern glass factories, and
/ found 10 answer the needs Of such factories
admirably.
Iron railway sleepers are said to have
proved, both IN India and in England, nuch
cheaper 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 and
general use of tobacco.
France forbids the manufacture or sale
of eartheR ware, whether French or foreign
glazed, wits a layer of lead oxide melted or
imperfectly zitrifed, and so liable to yield
lead to weak acids.
1t is stated that the Salisbury process
for using the res;dium of petroleum for fuel
has proved failure, and 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 manufac.
ture of carbons for the electric light. There
are more than 800 feet of carbOns per day
turned out at his works at present.
The SlRrm felt in some quarters lest
the lawyers should devour the land its inhab-
itants is not very keenly experienced as to
the Delaware legislature, which has a doctor
for speaker of the house, but ne'er lawyer
in either chamber. n
The supreme court Of Missouri decides
that all the seven hundred lawyers in St.
Louis are as clearly liable to taxation as
merchants, hucksters or suctiOneers, and
must pay their annual license fee OF S25
demanded by city ordinance.
It's stated that in Iroguois county, ILL.,.
50 500 900 gallons OF water are supplied daily
Dy artesian wells for the irrigation OF laud
These walls do not in any instance exceed
seventy.tive feet in depth; thew are of small
bore, and within a radiu, of 20 miles there
are 200 OF them.
India is said to possess aconveDient tree
called the "kapas," which is used as a teIe.
graph post. When cut down, its branche;
partially removed snd stuck in the ground.
II readily takes root, thus checking the raw
ages of the white ants, and becoming liy>
ing telegraph post,
Millstones m sde of glass are a German
novelty. Eight pieces OF glass equal siz. are
used as BUcte' q counter piece of granite is
bound TO the outer form with cement. Tie
advantages claimed are thatthev run ca i!v.
grind cool, and produce finer, lighter -four
then French burs. But few are in actual
operation.
Engineers of steamships have found
that the best lubricants are glvcerine for
the cylinders and castor oil for the bear
ings. When castor oil is used the main
bearings seldom become heated. Only the
best g ycerine can be employed with advsu> ,
tage, but when it is of a high grade the
results leave but little to be desired
Some matches are made without sr1
phur, thus avOIdins the offensive smell of
that material, A German composition for
this purpose consists of phOsphorus, four
parts; water, ten; fine glue, six; red ochre
or red lead, five; small, two. The iupre>
dients, 10 the order named are inco. por.ted
with the liquiied glue to form paste.
The baby-csrriage is condemned nv |
the Berlin physician in cases where the littI. !
one sits facing the nurse and is pushed back |
ward. The natural desire IF the eve is IN |
Of reversing this normal order Of things, and |
causing surrounding objects to recede, is |
liable to sffect iujuriOus!y the development |
Of both sight and brain.
Plated silver Is obtained by rolling |
together plate OF copper OF the first quality 1
md Que OF silver; these are either welded or
imply united by placing their hot and clean
'urtsce together, wetied with a coneentrs,
ion solution of nitrate of silver. The TWO
metals are reduced ana drawn out about
equally by the pressure of rolls, and long
heets or bands of sllvered metal are thus
,btained.
Large type-founderies and extensive
OBJ printers have declared "b0y printers 4,
md amateurs a nuisance" They nav
ent, taxes nor insurance, and obtain tn 20
took at little or no cost, turn out indifey ca.