The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-06-18
CURIOUS AND INTERESTING.

The Uses OF WATER. w ater-power
for household purposes has been brought
into use at Zurich Firewood, for ex-
ample, is to be sawn into convenient
lengths for burning. A small saving
machine, on wheels, is drawn by two
men to the front of the house. They con-
meet it by flexible tube with the near
est hydrant the water flows to the ma
chine the saw dances, and cuts up the
wood with surprising rapidity. The
quantity of water used is shown by an
Indicator affixed to the sawing-machine
A portable turbine has also been invent
ed, and employed in many places in the
city, in driving Gramme machine for
the production of electric light. Water
is sold very cheap in Zurich; but there
are perhaps other towns in which this, SO
to call it, domestic water-power. could
be advantageously introduced. A tur-
bine of about four inches in diameter
has for some time been sold. It's office
is to- work a sewing An india
rubber tube is attachedsto the ordinary
water-supply--a similar tube acting as
waste-pipe to the nearest sink. a
/, CURIosITIEs of FIGURES. Here's a
curiosity of little students The multi
plication for 987654321 by As gives Al,
AL. 444, 45. Reversing the order of the
digits, and multiplying 123456789 by 45
we get result equally curious, $685.
81, 505 If we take, 123456789 as the
.multiplicand, and, interchanging the fig
ures Of 45, take 81 as the muIplier, we
have another remarkable product, g.
666, 666, 606. Returning to the multi
plicand first used, 987654321, and TAX
ing 81 as the multiplier again, we get
81, 1885,, 1885,, 1874 ALL threes except the
first and last figures, which read to-
gether 81, the multiplier.. Taking the
same multiplicand and 81, the half of 81,
as the multiplier, we get a product of
26, 666, 666, 667, all SKIES except the first
and last, figures, which read together
give 27 the multiplier. Next interchang-
ing the figures in the number 81, and
using 70 as the multiplier, with 987654-
321 as the multiplicand, we obtain pro-
duct Of Il, III, Ill, 112- all ones except
the first and last figures, which, read to-
gether, give 70, the multiplier.
The FOUNTAIN TREE.-A remarkable
tree formerly existed in Hero, one of
the Canary islands, concerning which
the most marvellous tales were told. It
was asserted that this tree was unique,
and supplied the inhabitants of the
island, wherein rain is unusual, with all
the water they required; in fact, pure
water trickled from it's leaves to the
amount of several gallons daily, which
was collected in receptacles at the base
of the trunk. But, aided by science, it
becomes evident that this was not due to
any special property of the tree itself,
as was inferred, which was laurel, but
to it's exceptional position. A narrow
and deep ravine Glove the island to it's
center, extending from the sea to nearly
the highest point for five miles and
where this gorge terminated abruptly, at
the base Of a precipice, the solitary tree
grew, amid thicket of ferns and smaller
plants. The warm air from the surface
of the sea, ascending by natural law
into the higher atmospheric region, was
constantly rushing through this gorge
laden with moisture from the ocean.
This current Of air, abruptly stayed in
it's ascent by the bleak wall of rock, con-
densed it's vapors on the local vegeta-
ton, and especially on the broad,
smooth leaves of the solitary evergreen.
Thence the moisture trickled down in
sufficient quantity to render it's collec-
ton an object when the usual sources
of water were deficient. This singular
tree, which was very old, was destroyed
by hurricane in the seventeenth cent
AIRY.