The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1880-12-15
QUEEN sABE,

A process by which photographs can be
printed with ordinary printing ink, on any
good variety of paper, has been invented by
a Philadelphia photographer.
Cider, dried apples and rhubarb juice
are used in the manufacture of champagne
in this country. The champagne thus made
costs from five to twenty-five cents a bottle.
After the horse is nine years old q wrin-
kle comes in the eyelid, at the upper corner
Of the lower lid, and every year thereafter
he has one we'll .defined wrinkle for each
year Of his age over nine.
Horse leather, it is reported, has been
officially adopted as the material of which
the boots issued to sailors of the German
navy are in future to be made, experiments in
the use Of this material for the past eighteen
months having been SO successful that calf
skin is to be abandoned.
-Bonsilate is the name given a new sub
stance made at Newark, n. j., which it is
claimed will take the place of ivory, rubber,
celluloid, and similar materials. It is said to
be composed chiefly of finely ground bone,
aglutinated by some cementing compound,
which, when in its plastic state, can be mold
ed into shape.
M. Daubree has exhibited to the Acade-
ME des Sciences some sheets of nickel rem
dered malleable by q new process introduced
by III. Gurnier. The brittleness of nickel is
said to arise from the little oxygen it holds
with much tenacity. This is removed by a
small addition of phosphorous-from four to
six thousandths-and extreme malleability is
obtained.
The Philadelphia Times says that twenty
years ago cigarette smoking was compare
lively innoccuous, since all cigarettes then
came from Cuba and were wrapped in rice
paper. Now, however, they are for the
most part of bad tobacco and common paper
and, besides having 9 n odious smell, are very
injurious to tens of thousands of the youth
who consume them.
The new metal, norwegian, discovered
by Dahl, in 1878, some calcite gangue found
in the small island of Otero, near the town of
Kragero, on the skager Rack, seems to be
=s&0
present in American refined lead, according
to q paper published by G. A. Prochazka.
Norwegian bears a close resemblance to bis
muth, SO far as melting point. atomic weight
and specific gravity are concerned.
Horse hair is now largely substituted in
upholstery, ETC., by the Louisiana moss, OBJ
tanned from certain trees, that from the cy-
press being found most suitable, as it is the
longest and most tenacious of all the varie-
ties. After the moss is gathered, it is placed
on a sunny spot, and left a month to the &C.
ton Of the wind and weather, at the end Of
which time the grayish bark peels off, leav-
ing the substance almost clean. After being
thus dried, the stuff is baled, and, on reach
ing the factory, is first subjected to the action
Of the washer large cylindrical arrange
ment with . wheel inside, which pulls the
moss hither and thither and dashes it through
a vat Of boiling water and soap, until the
cleansing is complete-when it is hung out
upon racks to dry. This done it is put into
the buster, a fan mill, which entirely removes
all the dust that may have survived the wash
ing process. AS a result, the moss goes into
the factory yellow in color and goes out inky
black.