The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-02-08
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

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Wines made from the wild oranges
OF Florida are alleged to have greatly
priced therapeutic properties. The
manufacture o. aese beverages is very
simple,
Some Ere tch chemists have sue
ceeded in solidh ii petroleum, in which
state it burns lii . allow. This solidili.
cation Is effected 1 adding to distilled
petroleum twenty, We per cent. of the
purified juice of the. slant belongingto
the family of the Euphorbiaceous.
Either spray in the practice of DR..
McColganan, has not only immediately
relieved facial neuralgia, but has effect
ed permanent cure. The intense cold
produced is considered to have acted on
the affected nerve, SO as to have pro-
duced complete change in tho nutri-
ton and its action.-~-SG8 Francisco
Chronicle.
Instead of employing an ammoni-
acal double salt of nickel in an alkaline
solution, for nickel plating, new plan
Is to use q neutral or slightly alkaline
solution, containing certain organic
ACIDS; W parts by weight of sulphate of
nickel, 20 Of citrate of nickel, and Is of
penzolc aoid, are dissolved in 1000 of
SfGV-hQOt I5tD2k)2G.
On Long Island the sand industry
has grown to extraordinary propor-
tions. Only four firms whose invested
capital did not exceed $4,000 existed
i've years ago. The capital invested in
the business at the present time exceeds
S2,oOO,oO0. An average Of 1900 tons
OF SAND are shipped in boats to New
York daily.-N. Y. Times.
Sheep culture is no longer a matter
OF doubt or experiment in the Arkansas
valley. Numerous streams of pure
running water, tame and wild grasses,
cheap food and market facilities present
great inducements to sheep owners.
from very small beginning made
about five years ago tho business has
lnoreased to good proportions.
In lecture at the Lowell Institute.
frotesSor George l.. Goodale, the we'll
known botanist, recently stated that a
sunhoWer, three feet and half hioh,
presented an evaporating surface Of
thlrty-nlne square feet, and that the
roots of such q suntlower had been
found to aggregate fourteen hundred
ana forty eight feet in length. Accord
ing 10 the same authority, grasses and
similar plants, on n hot day in summer.
exhale about their own weight of water.
Tho american Naturalist saws that
mountain cork has been recently used in
Germany as q substitute for animal
charcoal for the removal of color from
moiasses. The mountain cork, q spe-
CLOS OF amphibole, is dried, ignited and
soaked IN molas5es, then again dried
ana lgnlted. The process is repeated
several times until some 3.5 per cent. of
carbon has become fixed in the mineral,
which is then ready for use. 1t is more
efficient than charcoal in removing the
alkalies from molasSos
A new map of the mean annual
rainfall OF the world has been prepared
by Professor Elias LoomiS, of Yale Col
Iege. He finds that On equatorial rain
belt of fifty inches of rain year extends
continuously across all the continents
ana islands, and is nearly fifteen hun
dred miles wide on an average. On the
other hand the regions which receive
less than ten inches of rain per annum
are also very extensive, although Spain
Is the only land in Europe where the
rainfall is so scanty as this. In Asia.
however, there is an area three thousand
miles long and one thousand miles
broad, over which the rainfall AVERAGES
less than ten in ches, and like tracts ex-
lst In Africa, Australia, on the west
coast of South America, and the North
American continent near the Great Slave
Lake, in Arizona, and in Southern Cali
fornia. Professor Loomis estimates that
onc-fifth Of the earth's land surface re-
ceives an annual rainfall of less than ton
inches. Very little is known az to the
quantity of rain which falls upon the
ocean.