Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-05-04
Industry And Seienre.

Austrian locomotive makers appear
to be rcaping rich harvest at the
present moment, says an English paper.
The Northside Bridge Company,
Pittsburgh, have dcsidcd to build a truss
badge az Allegheny, entirely OF IRON
and steel.
\ writer on cranberry culture in the
RlTdL .SC1r Yorker says there Is much
needed a machine for separating the
rotten and frozen cranberrieS from the
sound in preparing them for the mar
ket. \ machine of this kind that Will do
perfect work is not knHwn. \ machine
for harvesting the berries Is also greatly
needed.
At the Paris mint medals are bronzed
by boiling them for quarter Of an hour
i'm the following solution: Pulyerlzed
verdigriS, 500 grams; pulverized sal
ammCniac, AS grams; strong vinegar,
loo grams, water, two litcrS. An untln-
ned copper boiler, and the metals are
separated from each Olher by bits of
glass or wood.
Thursday, April 6, was busy day at
Castle Garden, New York. There were
landed that day G,4Sl immigrants, the
largest number received at this port on
any day this season. All We're in good
health, and there is every reason TO
expect that the great majority OF them
were desirable additions TO our working
force as nation. The next day the
arrivals were sufficient tOswel the num-
Der to nearly 10000. Last year there
were two successive days in which the
arrivals exceeded 1000.
The Mexican Central Railroad Conn
pauy has now in full operation the line
from the city of Mexico to QueretarO,
and it is confidently expected that the
line will reach Leon long before the
time stipulated by the concession has
expired. The realization Of this eXpecta-
ton will place the centre OF the republic
i'm communication with its chief seaport,
Vera Cruz. 1t is probable that,byESeptem-
Der next the section from Paso del Nortc
10 chihuahua will be finished, and that
the line from TampicO to SanLuis will
be quite advanced.
The following method of tracing on
glass for the lantern, by Mr.. George
smith, appears to be satisfactory. y
piece of Underground glass is rubbed
over with trace of iglycerine, In order
10 make it transparent rs possible. 1t Is
now easy 10 write or draw on the pre-
pared surface with hard and a finely
pointed black-lcad pencil, and the glass
Is so TRANSPARENT that the finest de tails
of any engraving OvSr which it may be
placed can bc seen quite distinctly. The
drawing having been finished, the plate
i washed with water in order to remove
the glyccriuc, and dried. \ thin coat of
Canada halsam or ole negative varnlsh
now serves to render the slide pcrman-
entity transparent and ready for the
lantern.
Many kinds of dry goods possess old
English names which are used, more or
less corrupted, through the whole world.
The origin Of these old names is given
bv Sir George BirdwOOd a. fOllwS;
Dama~k Is from the city of Damascus;
satin from IalytOwn, in China; calico
from Calcntta, and muslin from Mosul.
Buckram derived its name from
BOchara; frlstian comes from FoStat, 4
city of the Middle Ages, from which
the modern Cairo is descended. Tatfeta
and Tabby from street IN Bagdad.
Cambria i from COmbral. GauZe has
its name from GAIA; baiZe from Bajae;
dimity from Damletta, and jeans from
.Jaen. Drugget il derived from q city in
Ireland, DrOgheda. Duck, from which
Tucker street in Bristol is named, comes
from Torque, in Normandy. Diaper is
not from DGpres, but from the Greek
di0>yrom, figured. Velvet is from the
Italian reAjttc, wOlly Latin, rCiUS-a
hide or petit. Shawl is the Sanscrit sa!a,
floor, for shawls were first used As
carpets and tapestry. Bandanna is from
an Indian word, meaning to bind or tie,
because they are tied in knots before
dyeiny. ChintZ comes from the HindOo
word rhett. Delaine.is the French 'Of
WOO. - Scientific american.