The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-11-10
POPULAR SCIENCE. @.

'oI "aSnng clothes.
IHE nearer rain cloud is to the
earth, the larger the drops.
UNDER-sHor wheels require q much
larger body of water than over-shot.
THE diamond is rather more than
three and one-haf times heavier than
water.
Oil or essence Of pine apple is obtained
from the product of the action of putrid
cheese and sugar.
A HORNETS nest being the finest
| woolly substance known-is the best
polisher for glass lenses.
ACCORDING to seamen, q green hue
OF the ocean indicates soundings, an in
| dl8o blue, profound depths.
Spirits of camphor makes good
| barometer, as 1t is cloudy before a storm
and clear i'll fair weather.
LEEcHEs may be induced to bite more
readily by bathing the surface to which
thoy are applied with milk.
A BODY which weighs one pound at
our equator would weigh five ounces six
drachms ut that of the planet Mars.
STEEL bar held in the natural direo>
tlon of needle, and struck several blows
with hammer, will become magnetized.
rNolb luul MS Gull DS CSUuor0u 1nQSll-
bio by dipping the paper in skim milk
and ironing Oh the wrong side after dry
ing.
The largest bituminous deposits in the
world are i'll Asphaltic Lake, or Dead
Sea, in Judea, and Tar Lake. in Trini-
dad.
THE icebeTgs of the Southern hemis-
pheres are much larger than those of the
Northern, and frequently attain height
of 1000 feet
We CANNOT determine tho sound of a
string which makes less than thirty vibra-
tons per second, or of one which makes
more than 1862.
PAPER can be made transparent by
spreading over it, with feather, very
tim layer of resin dissolved in alcohol,
| applied to both sides.
In number of examinations of the
heart-beats of the dying, Bouchat re-
corded six seconds as the longest interval
between the pulsations.
THE diamond is the purest crystal car
bon found in nature. Plumbngo, of
which lead pencils are made, is the next
purest. Coal is crude carbon.
Ii IS n popular mistake to call thin.
1inky, semi transparent mineral isinglass.
lsinglass is fish glue, and has nothing to
do with the mineral, which is mica.
SILK articles Of delicate shades should
| not be folded i'll white paper. as the
chloride of lime used in bleachine the
| paper will probably impair the color of
| the silk.
DIssohvINa five ounces of inter and
the same quality of sal-ammoniac, finely
powdered, III nineteen ounces of water.
will reduce the heat Of the liquid forty
degrees.
A GOOD microscope may be made bv
boring a small hole III piece of tin and
filling 1t with one clear drop Of the balsam
OF the common fir 1t will magnify sew
| enty-tive diameters.
The sunbeam il composed of three
distinct rays, one Of heat, one of light,
and one called the chemical ray. The
| blue or chemical ray is greater in spring,
| the light ray i'll summer. The chemical
| ray Is less III autumn.
IF A lamp chimney be cut with dia-
| mond on the convex side, it will never
| crack with the heat, as the incision af-
fords room for expansion, and the glass
| after cooling returns to its original shape,
| with Onlya scratch visible where the cut
was made.
ARSENIC is not freely soluble in any
organic mixtures and may generally be
found asa white sediment, which. when
| thrown upon red hot Goals, gives out q
strong odOr like onions and q thick
smoke. Common arsenic can not be de-
tected by the taste.