Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-04-07
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

Clifton. S. c., is sending shirtings
to China. One of her cotton factories
has received an order for FIVE hundred
bales.
"A valuable phosphate mine has de-
veloped near Kingston, Ont. There 10
n pit from which nearly three hun
bred tons of mineral have been taken.
Two years ago the present site Of
Ketchum, Idaho, was a sage plain and
nothing else. To-day there are numerous
well laid avenues, q town park, and .
main street with upwards Of fifty busi-
ness houses.
Canning oranges is growing to be
one of the industries Of Florida. The
fruit is peeled ard broken into its
natural sections before canning, which
is done by a process similar to that used
for preserving other fruits, and when
taken out is ready for use.-N. Y. En-
a,nta1er.
There is q growing interest in tho
Connecticut Valley in the "mohair in
dustry," involving the breeding of An
CORA goats. The only mohair goods
mandatory in the United States is To-
Gated at Seymour, Conn, and it is
claimed that in the nine months of its
existence it has made one hundred per
cent. profit.
An Indiana man has invented an in
strument to make the deaf hear. 1t con-
sists Of a metallic plate, which is worn
next to the body and covers the entire
stomach, to which is attached copper
wires, running from this plate to the in
strument that is placed to the ear. The
object of the metallic plate is to concen-
trate the electricity of the body.-M-
dianapohs Journal.
"A noted Psychologist has just con-
cluded a series of special observations
which he says proves conclusively that
wearing corsets makes women thick
wasted and dumpy. They weaken the
muscles of the back, the back and body
settle down, in some instances an inch
and more. He concludes BY citing the
fact that all men agree that women look
better in bathing suits than in stays.
"A Partisan dealer in fireworks has
invented a sort of rocket which when
introduced into a rabbit burrow will
find its way downward and when well
into the bowels of the earth explode like
a shell, driving out the happy family in
dire dismay. If this device succeeds as
well in the ground as on paper. the fer
ret's occupation will be gone. For
the discontinue of larger game,
like the fox or the coney, the
rocket will be arranged with q
a chemical attachment, which, when
the explosion occurs, will give off 3
poisonous vapor Immediately fatal to
the unlucky beast inhaling it.
Ono of the principal engineering in-
ve%ntions, noticed of late in the foreign
journals, is a device for the instanta-
neous formation of steam, which permits
of its use at once in the cylinder of the
engine. A pump sends the required
quantity of liquid between two plate
surfaces, which are heated, and between
which there is only a capillary space.
The effect of this arrangement is, that
the liquid, spreading in a thin layer,
evaporates at once, without going at all
into the so-called spheroidal state, and
this steam acts in the cylinder as fresh
formed steam. The speed of the pump
is regulated by the engine. the pump
being connected with the shaft of the
engine, the arrangement operating very
satisfactorily.