The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-06-09
TIE WORKSHOP.

THE first type-setting machine was m
vented In Connecticut, IN 1920. BY Or.
William Church.
BURNING kerosene oil can be extin-
guished by throwing milk upon it. A
persons first impulse Is to throw water,
but the oil rises and the only result ia to
make the first spread.
A NOVELTY In carriage springs consists
of an elliptic spring connected to the
vehicle body at its upper side, and on its
lower side to half-spring extending
across the body by iointed coupling
studs.
To MAKE cisterns and tanks water
tight paint thickly on the inside with q
mixture of eight parts Of melted glue
and four of linseed oil, boiled with
litharge. In forty-eight hours it will be
so hard that the tank can be filed with
water.
To FIX pencil marks so they will not
rub, take well skinned milk and dilute
with an equal bulk of water. Wash the
pencil marks whether writing or draw
ing) with this liquid, using soft camel
hair brush, and avoid all rubbing. Place
upon fiat board to dry.
A ROAD locomotive for war purposes
was lately tried before Count Moltke.
Il weighed 2SE tons, and drew easily
forty tons weight of guns mounted on
their carriages fully equipped. It's maxi
mum traction power is $50 tons aud Its
cost of maintenance is about thirty cents
an hour.
LUBRICATIoN.-For general purposes,
sperm answers best; next, winter-strained
lard-oil. For high speed and heavy
pressures, add finest air-foated plumbago
Graphite, black lead). 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 a bottomless
Jug placed in an open vessel containing
6ltering material. Around the sides of
the jug near the bottom is a series of
perforations, through which the water
precolates after passing through the
tiltering 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 instruc-
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 23093 feet Tor
27.71 inches) high, ut 81 degrees
Fahrenheit, will exert pressure of one
pound per square inch. A column of
water 49, 946 feet high, at 81 degrees
Fahrenheit, will exert a pressure of one
atmosphere (14.7 pounds per square
inch); 1928 cubic inches, 2200.15 cylin-
drical inches, % spherical inches,
or 6600.45 conical inches, make one
cubic foot
THE largest turn 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 is 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, as 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
a spring. In repeated efforts the manila
yielded every time, and at last went to
pieces, SO that the Edam was abandoned
to her fate. The wire portions remained
intact
The CurfeH Bell.
It will be remembered that the curfew
is commonly said to have been intro
duced into England by William the Con-
queror. By that monarch it was ordained
under severe penalties, that when the
curfew bell rang at 8 o'clock in the even
ing all lights and fires should be extin-
guished. There are those who hold
that this was merely the enforcing Of
an existing and very common police reg
ulation to that effect. The absolute
prohibition of lights after the ringing Of
the curfew bell was abolished by Henry
I, in the year HOO, but the practice of
tolling bell st fixed hour in the even
ing was continued, and this, which is
still extsnt in some places, is a survival
of the curfew of medieval times. At
first the common hour was seven O'Clock,
then it was gradually advanced to eight,
and in some places to nine o'clock; IN
deed. in Scotland ten o'clock was not an
unusual hour The curfew was a rsgu-
lation most useful in those early days,
when it was the custom to place the fire
in hole in tie middle of the floor, TN
der an opening in the roof to allow the
escape of the smoke. When a family
retired for the night, the fire was extin-
euished by covering it up; hence the
term couvrefeu, or curfew. The regula~
lion was also serviceable in obliging
people to keep into their houses, and
thus preventing night brawls In the
streets. 1t is believed that there Is no
historical authority for the popular
tradition that the severity exhibited by
the Conduerer in enforcing obedience to
the curfew was more particularly de-
signed to prevent the English from
assembling in secret to plan schemes OF
rebellion against their Norman lords.
A WISE and learned doctor gives forth
the information that gulf weed is an an
tidote for obesity. He does not say,
however, whether it is to be worn about
the hat or applied as plaster.
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