The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1881-04-20
QUEEN SABE.

A Paris manufacturer claims to have dis
covered a process for substituting the leaves
Of the eucalyptus tree which in burning emits
q delicious perfume, for tobacco leaves in
making cigars.
The Well-known lemon verbena is syste-
matically gathered in Spain, where it is re-
garded as 8 fine stomachic and cordial, used
in q form of a decoction. 1t is said That it it
be used one may never suffer from 1atulence,
nervousness, diarrhea or loss Of appetite.
DIR. Carnelly, of Sheffield, Eng, has OBJ
tanned ice at such extremely high tempera-
ture that it would burn the flesh to touch it.
He has also frozen water in hot glass vessels
and for a considerable time has maintained
ice at such a temperature exceeding the boil
ing point.
Aerial or wire railways are now being ex-
tensively used in some parts Of the mining
regions of the West, for the conveyance Of
minerals. The car consists Of a kind Of has
ket which is suspended by an iron crane on a
pair of grooves that run on q stout wire sup
ported at the end Of the cross-arms of tele-
graph poles, and are made to travel by means
of smaller wires attached 10 the baskets, and
propelled by suitable motive power at each
end of .he route or at suitable divisions
thereof.
Among other good works of American
missionaries in Japan is an effort to dlsplace
the cumbersome Chinese and japanese letters
in writing and printing, and already the
American Bible society has printed at Yoko-
hama a new edition of the New Testament in
japanese, being set in Roman types, the same
as our English. The work was translated by
J.. G. Hepburn, NJ. D., IL. D., one Of the
AS the Chinese Geographic characters used
in the various systems of writing in that
| country number into the thousands, there is
| certainly an imperative need Of the reform.
"A Leipsic Journal, which makes q special
ty Of matters relating to glass, gives q method
which it asserts will prevent lamp chimneys
from cracking. The treatment will not only
render lamp chimneys, tumblers and like ar
t;cles more durable, but may be applied with
| advantage to crockery, stoneWare, porcelain,
etc. The chimneys, tumblers, ETC., arc put
into a pot filled with cold water, to which
some common table salt has been added. The
water is well boiled over a fire, and then al
lowed to cool slowly. When the articles are
taken out and washed they will be found to
resist, afterwards, any sudden changes Of
temperature. The process is simply one Of
annealing, and the sloWerthe cooling part Of
it is conducted the more effective will be the
work.
The photograph is an apparatus recent
ly invented by N. Roncaili, of Paris, which
it is claimed, automatically and instantane-
ously inscribes in conventional characters
which may be subsequently easily read and
transcribed, the melodies that may occur to
the mind Of the musician at the very moment
Of inspiration. Electricity is one of the
prominent agents in the construction Of the
machine, which registers the various tones Of
music thrown out by the instrument to which
it attached, upon the principal Of vibration,
somewhat simijart to the workings Of the pho
monograph. The instrument is rather COM
plicated ia its construction, and a satisfactory
description of it would require more space
than we can allow for that purpose.