The Russellville Democrat., 1883-05-24
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

Large amounts of peanuts will be
planted in Tennessee this year
"A gentleman Of Enterprise, Fla,
has spread muslin under many of his
orange trees, 70 collect the orange bios
SONS when they fall. lie viii make per
fumery out of them.
San Francisco claims TO make more
and better chocolate than any other
place in the world The ingredients
are sugar from the Sandwich Islands,
cocoa from Ecuador, and vanilla raised
in California.
--Hearths are decorated with tiles
in imitation of polished woods. Deep
browns, reds and black represent ma
Piles, mahogany, cherry ana walnut,
the high glaze OF the tile giving the ex-
act effect of the polish of natural wood.
"A new idea is continuance for
holding open the pages Of a book which
obstinately refuses to lie flat on a table,
or to keep quiet on music desk, 1t is
made of wire twisted into shape that
resembles the confused snarl of q crabs
locomotive machinery.
The staining of bricks red is Of.
fected by melting one ounce of glue in
q gallon of water, then adding piece
pound of Venetian red, and one pound
of Spanish brown; redness or darkness
is increased by using more red or
brown. For coloring black, heat the
bricks and dip in fluid asphaltum, or
in hot mixture of linseed oil and as
phalt. Chicago Journal. ~
According to La Libertad, of Mexi.
co, Don Nicolas Zunigay Miranda OF
that city has invented an apparatus
that it is claimed will give notice, sew
eral days in advance OF the coming of
an earthquake. Its indications, Senior
Zuniga affirms, are so accurate that it
will mark not only the day, but even
the exact hour when the disturbance is
to occur, and show what the degree of
intensity of subterranean commotion
will be.
"A fire balloon has been made in
which the lower part is constructed of
asbestos cloth, while the upper part is
covered with fire-proof solution. A
spirit lamp is used to supply the hot air
for initiating it. and, being fire-proof,
there is no risk, as with ordinary hot
air balloons. The system is said to be
specially valuable for war balloons, as
a supply of spirit can be easily carried
where it would be difficult to take the
appliances for preparing gas.-Boston
Post.
An enormous quantity of water
passes through the roots of plants. An
English experimenter has ascertained
that for every pound of mineral matter
assimilated by a plant, an average of
2, 900 pounds of water is absorbed. At
the French Agricultural Observatory of
Montsouris IL was found that in rich
soil, 727 pounds ofwater passed through
the roots of wheat plants for every
pound OF grain produced; while in a
very poor soil, 1858 pounds passed
through the wheat roots for each pound
Of grain.
"A Mr. Brooks, who lives about a
mile north OF Somerset, Pa, dug a wei
on his farm last fall, but the water had
such an odor that he could not use it.
Upon examination of the well few
days since he found it contained about
ten feet Of petroleum. In the same
neighborhood petroleum is running in
small stream from q spring. About
two years ago a Pennsylvania oil man
examined the land in that section, and
wanted to lease the farms for boring and
inspection, but a number of farmers re-
fused to lease their lands, and the mat
ter was soon dropped, but now the oil
excitement is ON the rise. Chicago
7bSes.
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Five boys under twenty years Of
age ale in Jail in Portland. Oregon.