The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-07-12
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

An Indiana inventor has patented a
straw-stacking machine.-State Senti-
mel.
-Shoddy leather is made by grind
ing leather clippings, and, after forming
them into a pasty mass, reducing them
to dry, firm sheets of sole leather by
pressure. ,aEr
If one ear, the left for example, be
fatigued by listening to a long, pure
note, and the hearer then tries to esti-
mate the direction of the sound, he viii
imagine it to be further TO the left than
it is, or vice versa
"A scientific writer says: All por-
tons of oleander are deadly. A very
small quantity of the leaves has been
known TO kill horse. The flowers
have produced death in those persons
who have carelessly picked and eaten
them. The branches, divested OF their
bark and used as skewers, have
poisoned the meat roasted on them
and killed seven out Of twelve people
who partook of it.
i'm selecting pump care should be
taken to have 1t of q much larger ca
pacity than that needed to supply the
boiler, as there are many things which
affect the workings of pump, such as
defective suction pipes, leaky valves,
etc. 1t is the practice of most MANI
facturers to give the capacity of their
pumps in gallons of water delivered per
minute, from which it Is easy to select
suitable size, but the speed given in the
tables at which the pump is to run is
generally faster than that at which it is
desirable to run them.
"A singular magnetic property Of
some specimens of meteoric iron OBJ
tanned in Brazil recently has been OBJ
served. Small detached fragments, not
weighing more than OIL to 0.5 grains,
were very weakly affected by a magnet,
but on being fattened on q piece OF
steel with a steel hammer they became
very sensitive to 1t. Again, by heating
red hot the particles were made to be
still moro easily attracted than by fiat
tening. The meteoric iron presenting
these peculiar characteristics contains Of
iron sixty-six parts and Of nickel thirty
four.-N. Y. San.
The delightful climate of California
has its disadvantages, and among these
one of the most serious Is the strong and
chilling winds that blow from the ocean
at some points along the coast. What
makes this particularly important Is the
fact that the soil is often cultivated TO
the very verge of the beach, where veg
citation, grain, and fruit that would 9TH
erwise flourish luxuriantly, feel the winds
keenly. 1t Is now proposed TO remedy
this evil by planting dense rows of hardy
trees along the coast to form q barrier
against the winds. That would also
serve the useful end of helping TO Ak the
shifting sands. 1t is more than likely
that In course of time the coast Of Cali
fornia will present the novel spectacle
of unbroken woodland extending along
the very edge of the ocean for hundreds
of miles.
That high astronomical authority,
the Providence journal, speaking of the
retrograde movement of the equinoctial
points, says: 'sThis movement pro-
duces some curious results. 1t gives q
constant increase TO the longitude of the
stars, and renders necessary change
In celestial charts as often as once In
fifty years, TO exhibit their altered posi-
ton. Thus the stars that were once in
the sign Aries are now in Taurus those
that were In Taurus are now in Gemini,
and so ON. The polar star changes
many times during one Of these long
circuits; for to Whatever point of the
heavens the poles Of the earth point,
the star nearest will be the polar star
for the time. Thus Caph In Cassiopea
was thousands of years ago the polar
star, and twelve thousand years hence
the brilliant Vega in Lyra win III the
honorable celestial office"