Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1883-11-28

hIOOStOOh COuuty, Me', anu nave Also
purchased in Aroostook and Penobscot
counties and the provinces fifty thou
sand sheep, which are to be slaughtered
and sent to Boston this fall and winter.
They will be forwarded in refrigerator
cars, each car to carry four hundred
carcasseS.
A curious Georgia industry is the
making of wrapping paper out of rice
straw and palm leaves. A factory at
Savannah is turning out four tons day
of excellent paper 87I per cent rice
straw and 124 per cent palm leaves. 1t
can be made 20 per cent cheaper than
paper made of jute-butts and rags.
The rice-straw and palm leaves have
heretofore been waste.
French inventor has utilized the
power of mountain stream eight
miles distant To supply electricity suf-
ficient for 1l0 Edison lamps at Greno-
bic, the connection being made by n
fine wire. There seems at present no
reason to doubt that the force of dis
ant water-powers can be conveyed to
cities, and there used for lig hting, heat
ing, and manufacturing purposes.
An extraordinary yield of butter was
lately obtained from an English-bred
Jersey cow owned by n farmer in Ham
iton county, Ontario. A carefully
conducted test OF ninety three days dur
alton resulted in yield of 296 pounds
l0I ounces of uusalted butter, which,
when ready for market, weighed 81
pounds 13 ounces. Grass and five
quarts of ground oats constituted her
feed during the trial.
For cementing rubber or gutta-
percha to metal Mr.. Moritz GrossmaD,
in his year book for 1888, gives the fo!-
lowing recipe: Pulverized shellac,
dissolved in ten times It's weigh of pure
amonia. In three days the mixture
will he of the required consistency.
The amonia penetrates the rubber, and
enables the shellac 10 take a firm hold,
but as it all evaporatrs in time the rub
Der is immovably fastened to the metal,
and neither gas nor water will remove
it.
The Greek Sponge fisheries have
been very much developed within the
, last two years. and at the present
time there are 723 boats, 1888 OF which
are provided with diving bells, en-
poyed i'm this business. These boats
HUH uNC w NCNCH DO
fishing season commences in April and
/. ends IN August, the boats which are
provided with diving bells going as far
! TO sea as Tunis and TIipoli, while the
others do not go beyond the coast of
Greece and Crete.
: Nj. Mermet recommends the use OF
s nickel crucibles instead of silver in
chemical manipulations. They are
slightly attacked, it is true, by melted
g potash, but silver itself is not iDdit1ier-
ent to this action. They cost at first
!. much less than silver, and moreover
f they have the great advantage of melt
@ ing at higher temperature. 1t often
}. happens, in fact, that inexpericn ced
L chemists melt their silver crucibles by
O heating them over a gas lamp; such an
l. accident is not to be feared with nickel
g crucibles.
g Cranberry plants are seldom raised
/. from seed for the purpose OF making
g new plantations, but there is no diff
d Guilty in raising them in that way
Il When the berries are ripe, bruise ou
II the seeds and SOW them in early spring
o where you wish them to grow, or il
T. beds, TO be afterward transplanted
d There isno great skill required in trans
W planting cranberries. The chief pOin
o is to have the marsh or bed properl,
IF prepared for them. They may be Sc
1T from eighteen inches to four feet apart
d the closer they are set the sooner the,
Of will cover the ground, and that is th
T. point aimed at.
'o Prof. Farlcw says the black kno
which so infests our American plumb
trees and some kinds of cherries, paI