Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-07-15
Popular Science Notes.
Reported for the Ora MT County HERALD.

Reported for the Grant County HERALD.
A new use Of electricity as q mo-
tive power is suggested, in the paw.
ing of streets with iron end in such
manner as to form q continuous
electrical conductor, the same TO be
charged with electricity by power.
full stationary steam engines and
dynamo machines. 1t is claimed
that wagons, carriages, fire engines
and other vehicles provided with
electrical driving wheels, could be
run over pavement of this kind in
any desired direction, and with
more esse and safety than by the
present system of horse looomotion.
What next?
DR.. J, II. Girdner, of New York,
has obtained some wonderful re-
suits in skin grating during the
past few months. In the treatment
of a large ulcer recently, he cut a
piece of skin from a man who had
been dead for few hours, laid it on
the graduated surface OF the ulcer
and bandaged the leg up firmly. In
three days the graft began to show
signs of life, perfect union having
taken place, and in a week splen-
did skin, smooth and elastic, had
grown over the liberated part, max.
ing a complete euro and leaving no
scar behind.
The indeztruetibillty of matter
may be readily demonstrated by
preparing two glass tubes of equal
weight follows: Fill both with pure
oxygen containing afew particles
of carbon free from ash-that pre-
pared from the fine loaf sugar, gives
best results. Hermetically seal the
tubes, then heat one of them until
tho charcoal is caused 10 burn and
ultimately to disappear. By weigh.
ing both tubes at this stage of the
experiment, they will exactly bal.
ance each other-and the one in
which the matter had been burned
up will be found to have lost moth.
ing in weight by the destruction CT
it's contents.
A gentleman in Paris has in
vented telephone which he calls
an eloctrophone and which works
with az induction coil. The Undue.
ton current is sent from long dis.
lance and the hearing is said to be
very satisfactory.
A rich gold mino was recently dis
covered near Sydney, New South
Wales. A large and costly dia,
moDd was also found in one of the
mines of that region.
DR.. Dalantarients of Scarhorauhg
England, has invented a crystalline
substance TO be used as substitute
for ice in skating rinks. The mix
ture consists mainly of carbonate
and sulphate of soda, which when
laid as floor by his plan, can be
skated on with ordinary ice skates,
and writer states that by moon
light it has all the appearance and
effect of real ice.
Workers 10 iron at TitusVile, Pa,
have learned by experience that
barrel of petroleum will generate
heat sufficient for making tan of
iron, while it would require ton
and q quarter OIL coal to produce the
Same result
The young shoots on most of the
vines in tho vineyard along the
banks Of the Rhine and its tributar-
les, were killed by frost on the
night of May 18th and 10Th last, in
consequence OF which the grape
crop in that country is pronounced
failure.
An important discovery of an ex-
ceediDgly rich bar K of corals has
just been made some twelve miles
south of Sciacca, on the coast of
Sicily.
As president of the london Geo.
graphical Society it is understood
that Lord Aberdare will succeed the
Earl of Northbrook.