Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-06-23
LATE INVENTIONS.
Some of the Things Recently Brought
to Light
Philadelphia News.


Philadelphia News.l '-
A California man is said to have discOv-
cred process for deying and preserving po-
tatoes, by which they can be preserved for
years without any loss of their flavor or nu-
tritive qualities.
A German machinist has invented pro-
cess for cleaning oil which has been used for
lubricating machinery, by which he claims
a saving of SO per cent, in the consumption
of the material is obtained.
A firm of stove manufacturers have re-
Gently brought out a new lining for stoves,
intended particularly for those in which soft
coal is burned. 1t is claimed that clinkers
will not form in stoves in which the lining
has been used.
A new material for architectural purposes
said to be entirely tire-proof, is made from
cotton. After being converted into paste
by chemical treatment, it is moulded,
to into the desired form and allowed
dry, when it becomes as hard as stone. 1t
is called architectural cotton.
A French electrician has devised form OF
electric lamp by which intermittent lumin-
Gus signals can be produced. A cam motion
is used, by which the carbons are separated
at each revolution, and can be operated by
clock-work for regular signals or by hand at
a variable rate for the irregular ones.
A New York man is said to have discov-
cred q process for the manufacture OF sui
phate of quinine from coal tar. Owing to
the fact that little has been done toward the
cultivation Of the cinchOna, a substitute for
the Peruvian bark, from which the drug has
heretofore been, madeit has been sought after
for years. The trade in the article is a heavy
one, and if the new process should prove as
successful as it is anticipated by the inven-
tor it will cause revolution in the trade.
Why Eve Did Not Keep Hired Girl.
A lady writer furnishes some of the reasons
why Eve did not keep hired girl. She says:
There has been great deal said about
the faults of women and why they need so
much waiting ON. Some one, Ia man of
course) has the presumption to ask, why,
when Eve was manufactured of a spare-rib,
a servant was not made to wait upon her?'
She didn't need any. A bright writer has
said Adam meyer came home whining to
Eve with ragged stocking to be darned,
buttons to be sewed on, gloves to be mended
right away-quick-now ~ Because he never
read the newspapers till the sun went down
behind the palm tree, and he, stretching him.
self, yawned ont Isn't supper ready, my
dear?' Not he, He nade4thc fire and hung
the kettle over it himself We'll venture,
and pulled the radishes, peeled the potatoes
and did everything he ought to do. He
MIXED the cows fed. the chickens, looked
after the pigs himself and never brought
half dozen friends to dinner when hadn't
any fresh pomegranates. He never stayed
out till II o'clock at night, and then scolded
because poor Eve was sitting up and crying,
inside the gates. He never loafed around
the corner groceries while Eve was at home
rocking Gains cradle. He did not call Eve
up from the cellar to get his slippers and put
them in the corner where he had left them.
Not he. When he took them off he put
them under the fig tree, beside his Sunday
boots. In short, he did not think she was
especially created to wait on him, and wasn't
under the impression that it degraded a man
to tighten a wife's cares little. That's the
reason Eve did not need a hired girl, and
with it was the reason her descendants did"
Worth Remembering.
1. Child two years old has an attack OF
Group. Doctor at a distance. What is to be
done?
The child should be Immediately undressed
and put in warm bath. Then give an
emetic composed of one part antimony wine
to two Of ipecac. The dose is a teaspoonful.
If antimony is not handy, give warm water
mustard and water, or any other simple
emetic dry the child, and carefully wrap it
in warm blanket.
l. Some ones nose bleeds and cannot be
stopped.
Take plug of lint, moisten dip in equal
parts of powdered alum and gum arabic and
insert in the nose. Battle the forehead with
cold water.
g. Child eats piece of bread OH which ar
senic has been spread for killing rats.
Give plenty of warm water, new milk in
large quantities, cruel and linseed tea; fe-
ment the bowels. Scrape iron rust off any
thing, mix with warm water and give in
large draughts frequently. Never give large
draughts of fluid until those given have
been vomited, because the stomach will not
contract properly when well filled, and the
object is to get rid of the poison as quickly