Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-09-29
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

Steel nails are the latest novelty
n 2. Tribune.
-Minnesota is to have q sugar. beet
factory, with machinery imported from
Europe. 1t will be ready for operation
next spring.
The people around Admission, Ala,
are not satisfied with the everlasting
supply of timber in shat county, and
the replanting of oak and pine trees
has begun.
An Elmira IN. W florist has sue
ceeded in growing bananas in a green
house, and the fruit is said to be . vast
improvement on that imported from
the tropics.
The first salt made by white men in
Syracuse, N. Y, was made in 1888, the
annual product at that time being one
hundred barrels. In 1880 the product
was sixteen million barrels.
-Honey-raising in cities is a new in
dustry lately developed. The editor of
a magazine publishedin New York City
and devoted to bee culture is a practi-
cal man, and keeps an apiary Of one
hundred hives on the roof of his pub
fishing house in the heart of the city.
The owner says his bees gather honey
from the trees and flowers in the city,
and do not go beyond its limits.
DR.. Brown Sequard is said to have
discovered q new a%nesthetic which de-
stroys sensibility, but not consciousness
or physical activity, for an entire day
or more. When it is administered to .
man by the hypodermic injection pro-,
0occ he 10 n0f r1o~nosko%o Gov rro,,lr
or enjoyment, yet he can submit to
having his flesh cut without feeling any
pain. 1t is obviously a marvellous gain
for medical science. It is some form of
carbonic acid Chicago Herald.
-Curiosity-lovers and those scien-
tifically inclined may be much gratified
to know that napkins are now being
made of spun glass, a luxury which few
persons will deny themselves, at the
reasonable price of 800 per dozen.
They are Of a delicate pearl color,
about the size of an ordinary breakfast
napkin, and almost as pliable as silk.
The filling consists Of minute glass
threads, crossed, by a silk chain,
and the fringe Of glass fiber is abous
two inches Ion g.-Ghscago journal.
The heat from an electric lamp of
100-candle power is from 81 to 1853 heat
units, that Of the incandescent lamp of
equal brilliancy from 200 to $780,. The.
argand gas-burner is the next best
light in point Of GOODNESS, but this is,
represented by 1850 heat-units,, a COLA
oil lamp by $500, a flat wick petroleum:
lamp by 1900, and a tallow candle by
$500. Light for light, therefore, the
heat of an electric arc lamp under the
most favorable circumstances, issto the
heat of tallow candles as: l to no.
NJ Y. San.
Captain John Ericson's' latest in:
vention is a ''solar engine" whose use.
in irrigating tropical lands entities it to.
notice in this column. OF its success
the venerable inventor has no doubt,
whatever. 1t may be rugged up on q
houseless and t%reeless prairie, and is
propelled by an engine set in motion
by the heat of the sun, without direct
human guidance: 1t is expected this
device will prove sufficient to irrigate
perfectly a district like Southern Cali
fornia, where sunshine without rain
lasts six or seven months at a stretch,
and where the sun is remarkably,
fertile. In fact it is applicable to the,
complete irrigation of all parts of the.
country wherever the sun shines and
water may be reached by boring.