Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1880-04-08
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

The number Of building permits is
sued in Boston since the year opened is
twice Nat issued in the same period of
1879.
Ostrich feathers may be bleached by
exposing them to the light of the sun, in
an atmosphere saturated with the vapors
OF benzine, turpentine, or petroleum,
"A new process has been patented in
Germany by M. Dronier for rendering.
bronze as malleable as copper. About
one per cent. of mercury is added to the
tin in warm state, and this is then
mixed with the melted copper
The earth Of a graveyard in which
there had been no interments for at least
thirty years has been examined by DR..
Il, Reichardt Itgaye off animal oil not
withstanding its long disuse for burial
purposes, when submitted to destructive
distillation.
Almost the only business which has
thriven in England of late years has
been that of the umbrella makers, in
whose familyAprayers the petition for
ram is poPularly supposed to be invaria-
bly, included albeit sunshine is not with
out its mild compensation to them in
view of parasol sales
Nearly 25O men are constantly en-
Rloyed at the Watervliet Arsenal, Troy,
N. r., in the manufacture of infantry
equipments. A thousand sets will be
ready for the Rhode Island State militia
about May l, and PENNSYLVANIA has an
order for 5000 sets to be ready on July
l. Many gun carriages and cavalry
equipments are also in process of manu-
tacture. The pay roll for February was
1862.
Parents and others will be interested
in the result of certain recent experi-
ments of DR.. Bollinger with cows milk.
The Doctor has observed that the milk of
COWS suffering from tubercular disease
will communicate that affection to hui
man beings. Boiling win not destroy
the propagating power, He also makes
the alarming statement that five per
cent. of old COWS have tuberchlar dis
ease.
DR.. Fleischer, of Kiel, Germany, has
applied the principle of the reactive
power Of the water jet to the propulsion
of ships. This design is not new in it.
SELF but it appears that the inventor has
improved it. Dr. Fleichner's
vessel is propelled by two water jets,
without the aid of paddle-wheels or
screw The discharge nozzIes are swiv-
eled, SO that they may be directed to
right OF left, and so control the direction
Of the vessel. The vessel was propelled
at the rate of six knots an hour, showing
forty per cent Of the steam power was
developed
DR.. w. B. Hammond in the British
Medical Journal, gives some useful hints
Of considerable value to those who stam-
mer. He found that people could pro-
nOunce with ease when alone words
most difficult with others. With stam-
merers the great trouble is with the ex-
plOsive consonants-b. p. t. These re-
luire the sudden opening of the mouth.
Dr.. Hammond states that if some slight
movement be made with
each difficult word it can be pronounced
without difficulty. A motion with the
land or foot, or tapping the side of the
body with the hand will answer, and di-
1erts the mind from the difficulty.
The success of the st. Gothard Tun-
lel has led to another tunnel project to
connect the Swiss railway system to that
If Austria, so as to render the traffic of
hese countries independent of the South
German roads. The new tunnel will be
n the Arlberg Of the Rhaetian Alps. It's
ength will be 10, 270 kilometres, its high
,st point above the level of the sea 4,060
eet, its cost 16,216,000 forins, and the
ime required to complete it five to six
ears. The new line Of road for the pro-
Dosed Austro-Swiss commercial commu-
lication is divided into two sections, the
irstrunning from Innsbruck to Landeck,
nd the second from Landeck to Bludenz.
1t st. Antoine, 525 metress above Lam
-eck, it will enter the tunnel In all the
ength of the line is 1877 kilometres, and