The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-05-02
CURIOUS. USEFUL AND sCItNrIFIC

The following recipe for show card ink Is
from New Remedies: Pure ssphaltum,
ounces; Venice turpentine, l ounce; lamp
black. J ounce; spirit of 'urpentine. J
pint.
To prevent boiler incruststion, DIR.
Bs1Get, makes a mixture of fifteen pints
sodium thiosulpha!e. ten pints rain water,
and ten pints Elycerol, which be adds to
the water.
Mr.. John NJ. Csyce, of Nashville, Tenn,
has in rented spring motor for sowing
machines, which, 1t Is said, will soon come
Into general use, doing away entirely with
the foot movement
The Lancet thinks that if children would
wear WOODEN mex. the skin and wear Ion
ger clothing, suspending it from the should
ers, We would hesr more of boisterous
health and less of backsches aud pains.
According TO Electricity spiders, which
are very NUMEROUS in Japan, spin their
graph wires and their supports. As the
deWs are very abundant, the webs become
conductors of electricity and give rise 10
great disturbance in the transmission of
messages.
The Quincy Market Cold Storage Com
pany, Of Boston, i, ssid to have the largest
refrigerating building in the world. 1t is
of stone aud brick I60 by so feet in size,
and 20 in height. The capacity is 100000
cubic feet, the COS, 500, 600 aud the ice
chamber holds 600, 600 tons of ice. It will
be used for storing dressed beef and mutton.
Tie Chicago refrigerating cars unload st
the door.
An improved hub for wheels, which will
not shrink and warp, and which is durable,
consists in a hub constructed with central
ring Of wood, into which the inner ends OF
the spoke are mortised, and which il pro-
vidod with q conicsl continuation or sleeve
toward the outside of the wheel, upon which
central ring OF wood Hanged ring ia placed
a. each side. These Hanged rings are bolted
or rivited t)gether, go that the inner ends of
the spokes will be held between the Aanges.
The axle box passes through tho centr 81
ring AID the conical sleeve, ard is held in
this hub by lugs fitting in grooves in the
| Hanged rings.
a substitute for wood is now made from
compresaedttrsw, flax, hemp, or any other
| iber which will work into a pulp. The
pulp is rolled into thin sheets, which ara &C.
mented together by waterproof glue, then
pressed into a solid. The boards can be
sawp, pIsned, and polished ike ordinary
wood, and are now made into counter and
table tops, doors, and ornamental frames
They cell st one half the price of the finer
pines and wAlnnts. The artificial timber il
practically freproof and waterproof, having
been manufactured under 500 degrees OF
hest, and boiled without any apparent
change OF structure. Its tensile strength is
great than that of oak or walnut, and i:
weighs more than walnut when dry. A ton
Of straw produces about | 900 feet of board
ing.--Americsn Artisan.
| According 70 writer in the English
Journal Of Science the theory respecting in
tellec:usI heads which DR.. Gilbert, physi-
clan TO Queen Elizabeth, was the frst &c
suggest Issco. bore out by facts. The
pop3ls action has been that men OF great
Intel ecLusl powers have large and massive
heads. An examination of busts. pictures
me jallions, intsglios, etc, of the worlds
famous celebrities almost tends the other
way. In the earlier paintings, It is true
men are distinguished by their large head
bat this is attributed TO the painters, who
agreed with the general opinion, end misled
to AsLter their sitters. Instances are cited
Of great intellectual power OF men with
sm 4il heads. Contrary to the popular no
ton. there may be great neu without big
heads; in other words, Geneva watch il
capable of keeping as good time as an eight
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