The daily enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1884, 1883-09-04
CURIOUS AND SCIENTIFIC.


parts sodium thio-sulphate, ten pints
rain water. and ten pints glycerole,
which he adds to the water.
DIR. BALL, of the Paris Faculty OF
Medicine, says that there is broad
frontier between sanity and insanity.
and that most Of Us enjoy this IF, ont;ec
| life" He holds shat the number c.
persons perfectly reasonable on all
| points throughout the entire period Of
their existence form small minority Of
mankind.
A GERMAN patent has been taken
out for the manufacture of bottles, etc,
from cast iron, containing II per cent.
of silicon, g compound which is said to
resist action of the strongest acids.
CHARLES SoMERv1LLE, a. machinist
employed at the lock works at Sta,n-
ford, Conn.,, is so expert Of his business,
that he can cut an ordinary sewing
machine needle in two lengt1wise, drill
hole through each half, and then
fasten them together SO accurately thus
the place where it was separated coz
not be seen.
FIVE times as many kinds of insects
are estimated to exist as there ara
species of all other living creatures t.
gether. -Four hundred and fifty species
are fostered by the oak-tree alone and
200 by the pine Humboldt, in 1849, esti-
mated that between $50, coo and l7U, COS
species were preserved by collections,
and it is now supposed that the number
may be something like 750,000 With
how large part of natures production
In this one field can any single individ-
ual hope to become familiar?
The latest theories concerning the
sun consider that it gives forth energy,
which appears as heat, light Or cleo
tri"ity, according to the medium which
absorbs this energy. There are as
Economical phenomena, especially
those in connection with the divers d.
rections taken by the tails of comets,
which can be satisfactorily accounted
for only On the hypothesis of electrical
action, which is supposed to peryade
the interplanetary spaces. The elee-
tricity in the sun is of opposite polarity
to that of space.
A FAvoRITE antidote for rattlesnaka
poison in Mexico is, says DR.. Croft, ia
Chemical NeaUs, q strong solution OF
iodine in potassium iodide. The author
has tested some of the poison itself
with this solution, and finds that q
light brown amorphous precipitate IL
formed, the insolubility of which ex-
plains the beneficial action of the anti
dote. When iodine cannot be readily
obtained, a solution of potassium
iodide, to which few drops of ferric
chloride has been added, can, perhaps,
be used as an antidote to snake poison;
1t is a very convenient test for alka-
loids.
THE tenth census contains some fg-
ures which will serve to give an idea OF
the magnitude of the quarryipg inter-
ests of the country, which in 1880 gave
to 39,723 men, S,O53
horses and 851 mules; had $50 ma
chimes for quarrying, 1890 machines
for hoisting, 1,3O8 machines for dress
ing, and used 1892, IT'S worth of explos-
ives. The capital invested is given a;
BE, ,414, 497, and the value of the prob
uct In the census year at $18, 1856, ,055,
there being 1,525 quarries in all. Mar
bic and limestone lead the list with
50, 523, 800 cubic feet, followed by the
sandstone quarries with 24,77G, $50
cubic feet; crystalline silicious rocks,
With 5,11S,998 cubic feet; and slate
With 457, ,267 squares, or 4.572, go cubic
'eet.
The novel, interesting process, an
bounced some time since in France, by
which the wool on sheepskins may be
Transformed into velvet, is likely To
,rove Of industrial Importance. Up to
he present time, sheepskins, tanned
With the wool On, have only been used
or mats, lining for coats, ETC., and tho
vool, not having been subjected to any
PREPARATION, is always matted or curled.
Observing that the innumerable fbers
re naturally disposed in the most per-
oct and regular order, peculiarly fitted
Or velveting, an ingenious chemist con-
eived the idea of cleaning the skin and
1ool Of all impurities, and OF so pre-
airing and dressing them that the
airs would be we'll preserved, and not
one with the othertha oc-
urrence of the latter contingency be-
lg, of course, fatal to the success OF
ae operation After long and continu-
us experiments, success has BE-. \
chieyed, the article produced being
like beautiful and aerviceable, and
estined, it is thought, to become
ornament and important article Of
MoRocco. peopled by tho finest Mos.