Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-05-10
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.


planted in Tennessee this year.
A gentleman of Enterprise, Fla,
has spread muslin under many of his
orange trees, to collect the orange Bios
SONS when they fall. He will 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
pies, mahogany, cherry and walnut,
the high glaze of the tile giving the ex-
act effect of the polish of natural wood.
A new idea is a contrivance for
holding open the pages of a book which
obstinately refuses to lie flat on table,
or to keep quiet on a music desk. 1t is
made of wire twisted into a shape that
resembles the confused snarl of a crabs
locomotive machinery.
The Earl of Ashburton has a col
lection of manuscripts which he values at
100000. If he were to send them to
HAY fiLI1lC SIitCl NoH1d
discover to his dismay that they were
has valued his manuscripts at 800 has
disposed OF them at one cent pound,
after they had been respectfully de-
clined. "-Norristoaon Herald.
The staining of bricks red is eff
fected by melting one ounce of glue in
a gallon of water, then adding piece
of alum rs large as an egg, one-half
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.
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
1000 pounds of water is absorbed. At
the French Agricultural Observatory of
MontsOuris it was, found that in rich
soil, 727 pounds of water passed through
the roots of wheat plants for every
pound of grain produced; while in a
very poor soil, 1898 pounds passed
the wheat roots for each pound
of grain.
"A Mr.. Brooks, who lives about a
mile north of Somerset. Pa. duga well
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
a small stream from a 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 number of farmers re-
fused to lease their lands, and the mat
ter was soon dropped, but now the oil
excitement IS cc the rise.--Chscogo
Times.