Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1880-10-23

OClCIlIlIC ECONOMY.
An increase Of humidity renders a
warm atmosphere more oppressive.
The watch manufactures of the
United States produce $50 watches Il
day.
The mean specific gravity of sea-wa-
ter has recently been ascertained to be
l.O26s2.
from wooden material without injuring
the color.
A EEess dispatch Of eleven words was
recently sem from London to New
York in twenty-five seconds.
The Teredo navalis cuts timber for
food, ard not to form a burrOw. 1t
eat, the small chips which it removes.
The Lucy Furnace Of Pittsburg,
turned out in one month 9,53S tons of
finished steel rails, or about | 900 miles.
Germany added l,1O2 miles of road
to its railway system last year, and of
these the Government built 1913 miles.
\ switch of white hair which has
turned yellow may be bleached 10y
cleansing thoroughly and exposing it
moist to the vapor of burning sulphur
in Il box.
Marine glue is made by melting to-
gether one part Of unvulcanized caout-
chouc, previously softened or dissolved
in coal naphtha, and two parts of ,hei-
lac.
Charcoal, laid fiat while cold on a
burn, causes the pain to ahate immedi-
ately by leaving it on for an hour the
burn seems almost healed when the
burn i, superficial.
Photo plates made by the new photo
gelatino-hromidt process have such a
remarkable eenSilivtrIess that soft har-
monious negatives are secured in one
SiXtieth OF a second.
1t is computed that the population of
the German Empire, which stood at
io,731 800 when the census was taken
four Years ago, will be found by Decem-
btr | OF the present year, when the
next census Will he taken, to be about
1000, 900.
An ll-ychr old boy, } .cuues Inandi
bv name, IS astonishing the French
with his marvellous faculty ~"tretkon-
ing. He can n,itiptr= read nor write.
His calculating power appears 10 rival
that Of Jel,diuh Buxton, Henri Men
dtuX. Colhurn and Others ~ that class.
The railroad to the mouill of Nt>u-
vius is >N meters long and terminates
3n meters from the mouth ofthe crater.
The incllnes are ! in IL for the first 80
meters IS in loo tor the neXt33n meters
then So. and II III the loo cor the re-
mainier. The carriages are drawn hy
j. steel rope CT A. strands, coated With
tar Ia protect from rust.
w. may soon expect to lin! selling
great quantities oftht Furth Bavariul
tov>-leai soldiers. elastic balls, etr.
painted III brilliant but poisonous col
ors. Tn, stock on hand IN Furti. and
other places must ie worked III ~".;.,
how, ami as their sale has hten prohitr
itti III France and Germany the Amer
lean market Willie looked IL With en-
ergN.
The Very general adoption ri .ir>t
class chilled wheels for railroads il
this country has proved very >ati>tac
tory. and the Austrian Northwest Rail
way publishes Figures which, 20 I,
prove the -oundn.>> II the practice
In last December, January ani iellu
AIRY, on that railr aa, while ouly on
chilled wheel failed, forty eight tire
burst or one drilled wheel for ey,r,
ISIS wheels running and II tire I,
every l5.,.i wheels running.
j. y. Iatst. Publishes this continu
Gus method o. preparing acetic ether
He Introduces into 4 rttort IA cold mix
turt of 81 (. e., of >ulphuric acid, All,