Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-03-07

Shellac varnish makes good insulstor
for wire, provided the wire is wound before
the varnish becomes thoroughly dry.
A German chemist is said TO have invent
ed an iinfammabe su bstance capable of
serving as substitute for white phospho-
rus in the manufacture of matches.
To make macassar OIL Sunfower oil, 100
gram mes; goose grease and "ksmfett," of
each L grammes; liquid storax, oil of egge,
oil Of thyme cscaco butter, of each gram
mes, neroli, grammes; peruvian balsam.
O. 6 gramme; otto ofroses, 0. % gramme. -
HenkenIus.
We hear sound furthe,t just before a
storm, when the atmosphere is lightest.
Two reasons are given for this phenom enon
one is, that the air being moist, has more
than its normal conducting power; the
otner is that the low ying strata of clouds
confne the sounds of the earth.
1t is reported that the great Minnesota;
farmer, Oliver Dalrymple, intends to culti-
yate 10000 acres of wheat this year. He
will have twenty steam thrashers in opera
ton with 1876 reaping machines Last year
he employed 60j laborers, and this year
will increase the number to 700.
Nature says that the ascent of Mount
Hecla was made last summer by Miss TIL.
Petursson, daughter of the bishop of Reyk-
javik, for the purpose of geological investi.
cation. Her report of the condition of the
larger craters indicated that an eruption on
a grand scale was impending
To prepare paper negatives, the paper is
covered with collodion containing an iodide
foated upon silver batbj washed. and
hoated upon tsnnin solution. In order
to render the raper negative transparent
it is dipped into solution of castor oil thin
ned with alcohol-M. Anne Peligry.
An English journal says that a young
Scotchman at Aldershot fell ill., and was
sent to the hospital. A bath was ordereds
1t was brought into the chamber where the
invalid Law. He looked at it hard for come
time, and then be threw up his hands and
bawled: "Oh, doctor, doctor, l can ma
drink q thatl"
The Papier Zeitung recommends, as an
adhe sive for great variety of purposes, a
mixture of glue and gum, two parts OF glue
being allowed to swell up in water and t. en-
dissolved in warm solution of one part of
gum. The mixture is more easily applied
than glue, and is not SO readily affected by
damp rs is gum.
Professor Klnkerfus, of Gottingen, ridi-,
cules the notion, to which he assigns an
English origin Of the danger to the earth
of the present position Of Jupiter, Saturn,
Uranus and Nepture. He scouts the idea
of the epidemics of the sixht and sixteenth
centuries being caused by a similar phenom-
enon, declaring that it did not then &C.
eur, and can occur. even excluding Nep-
tune, but once in 420 years.
The brains of horses sem to entertain
but one idea at a time. Therefore, the con-
tinued whipping of balky horse only con-
firms his stubborn resolve. If you can by
any means give him new subjects to think
of, you will have no trouble in starting him
A simple remedy is to take a couple of
turns of stout Irvine around the fore-leg
Just below the knee, and tie in bow knot,
At the first check he will go danching of,
andafter going a short distance you can get
out and remove the string, to prevent IN
j Jury to the tendon in your further drive.