The Penn's Grove record., 1882-05-27
Scientific Economy.


in Great Britain, and they all belong
to one firm. The snnual yield of char
coal iron is about 5000 tons.
False ipecacuanha is distinguishable
from the pure drug by being more
branched, by its dirty white color, and
by the absence of the annular rings
present in the genuine article.
Wood piled in a tank and covered
with quicklime, which is gradually
Stacked with water, is said to acquire
great hardness and consistency, after
the lime has acted upon it for a week
or more.
The Kezanlik Valley, in Roumania,
is entirely given up to the cultivation
Of roses. The essence is sold whels-
sale in Paris at from $50 to E40 per
pound, while it is retailed at E1OO or
more per pound.
An exchange says a bee-keeper In
Los Angeles, Cal. has received an order
from Australia for several colonies of
humble bees. They are wanted to dis
tribute the pollen of the clover fields,
so as TO fertilize the seeds.
De Fosseb of Paris, has introduced a
paper covering for furniture. 1t is
made in imitation of Cordova leather,
and is said to be SO effective in its pur-
poses as to promise competition with
textile fabrics for upholstery work.
In Switzerland small coins are now
made from pure metallic nickel rolled
By the Fleitmann process. These coins
are said to be much superior to the
alloy of 25 per cent. of nickel and rs
per cent. of copper heretofore used
there.
This cheap and simple remedy Is
recommended by somebody fer the
noss-bleed Move the jaws rapidly,
as in the act Of chewing. A wsd of
paper, or gum, or tobacco, or a piece of
clearinghouse beef, will answer for
the experiment.
Lard butter gems to have obtained
u toierably firm hold on the New
York market. A Boston firm has
shipped to New York this winter over
1,00o, 900 pounds of leaf lard, to be sold
for making butter, for which II cents
more was received than for rendered
lard.
The uses to which paper Is applicable
are almost unlimited. Paper pulp,
treated with chloride of zinc and sub
iected to pressure, forms q substance
resembling both leather and wood.
Steam packing is made by incorpora-
tiog plumbaso into paper while in its
pulpy state.
The average life of an English gold
sovereign is about eighteen years
that is, the coin loses three, quarters OF
a grain in weight in about that length
of time. 1t then ceases to be legal
tender. 1t is said that of the ElOc,-
100000 of British gold coinage, 40 per
cent is worn down below the legal
weight.
DR.. Finzelberg reports excellent sue.
cess from the use of pepsine and by
drochloric acid as preventive of sea.
sickness. AS much pepsine as will
lay on the point of a knife Ia mixed
with five drops of hydrochloric acid,
and n ugh water added to give 1t 9
pleasant acid taste like lemonade. /;
is taken after the meal or at Other
times.
Mr. Muybridge has been exhibiting
some remarkable rapid process photo
graphs in Paris, one of which Is saif
to have been taken in one-hundredtt
of a second. He has obtained a seriei
of six photographs during the leap o
a clown, which when projected on
screen by a zeotrope exhibit the clown
as in motion, with all his changes o
position.
According to Les Mondes MN
scarpo and Baldo, with an induced
coil, arranged in two blocks, place,
on the poles of the magnetic nucleu
and communicating with each othe
so that their poles of junction may b
at equal distances from the neucles
have obtained effects of much create
power than is possible with the usus
arrangement of the RuhmkorR coil.
! 1t is discovered that perfumes exer
; a healthy influence on the atmosphere
: converting its oxygen into ozone
Cherry, laurel, clover, lavender. mint
. juniper, fennel and bergamot develo
the largest quantity of ozone. Flower
without perfume do not develop II
but the flowers Of narcissus, mign6
: nette, heliotrope and lily of the vslle,
Q develop it In close vessels. Odorou
: flowers, cultivated In marshy places
: would be valuable in purifying tn
: air.
g Judge Clark Howell, n Of the ole
est citizens of Atlanta, Ga, died {
heart disease.