The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1882-06-01
THE WORKSHOP.

THE first type.sctting machine was In
vented in Connecticut, In 1920, by DR..
William Church.
BURNING kerosene oil. can be cxtin-
guished by throwing milk upon II. A
persons first impulse Is to throw water,
but the o. rises and the only result IL 70
make the first spread.
A NOVELTY In carriage springs consists
Of nj elliptic spring connected tn tho
vehicle booty at its upper side, and on i's
lower side to a half.spring extending
across the body by jointed coupling
studs.
To MAKE cisterns and tanks water
tight paint thickly on the inside with
mixture of eight parts Of melted glne
and four OF linseed oil, boiled with
Iitharge In forty-eight hours ii will ba
50 hard that the tank cnn be filed with
water.
10 FIX pencil marks SO they will not
rub, take well skinned milk and dilute
with an equal bulk Of water Wash the
pencil marks (whctller writing or draw
ing) with this liquid. using soft camel
hair brush, and avoid all rubbing. Place
upon fiat board 70 dry.
A ROAD locomotive for war purposes
was lately tried before Count Moltke.
Il weighed 2S, tons, and drew easily
forty tons weight u guns motinted on
their carriages fully equipped. Its maxi
mum traction power il l5O tons and its
cost Of maintenance is about thirty cents
an hour.
LuBRlcArIoN.-For general purposes,
sperm answers best: next, winter-strained
lard-oil. For high speed and heavy
| Graphite, black lealD. For cooling
heated journals use flour Of sulphur and
olive oil. For curing badly scored jour-
nails use lead filings.
A NEW filter consists Of q bottomless
| jug placed in an open vessel containing
filtcring material. Around the sides Of
| the Jug near the bottom is series of
perforations, through which the water
precolates after passing through the
altering material. A pipe inserted into
the neck Of the jug serves to draw of the
filtered liquid.
SILK workers from Europe are aston.
ished to find here no schools for instrlc-
tionin the mechanical arts and industries.
In every considerable European manu-
featuring town there are polytechnic
schools. Zurich, with twenty per cent.
less population than Paterson, has two
such schools, where all the useful arts
are taught, even to basket making.
A COLUMN Of water 2.3O93 feet (or
27.7l inches) high. at 62 degrees
Fahrenheit, will exert pressure Of ono
pound per square inch A column of
water 33.946 feet high, at 62 degrees
Fahrenheit, will exert pressure Of one
atmosphere DAT pounds per square
inch); l72S cubic inches, 22OO.l5 cylin-
drical inches, 33OO23 spherical inches,
or 66OO. 45 conical inches, make one
cubic foot.
The largest turL-table in the world is
said to be that Of the Chicago, Burling-
ton and Quincy Road, at Chicago, which
is seventy feet in length. In England
most of the roads have short turn tables,
and cut the tender loose from the engine
when turning it. In this country the
average length Of the turn-table il fifty
feet, but the putting in service Of heavy
engines necessitates the roads using
them putting in sixty-foot turntables.
THE comparative strength OF wire and
manila rope was severely tested in the
attempt of the Persian monarch to tow
the disabled steamer Edam, as reported
ON the 18th ult. The tow line, a. de-
scribed by Capt. Duncombe, WAS COM
posite affair. the two ends being Of
manila and the central portion Of wire.
the whole attached to the steamer by
spring. In repeated efforts the manila
yielded every time, and at last went to
pieces, 90 that the Edam was abandoned
70 her fate. The wire portions remained
intact