Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-09-20
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

Steel nails are the latest novelty
N. Y. Tribune.
Minnesota is to have a sugar bee,
factory, with machinery imported from
Europe. 1t will be ready for operation
next spring.
The people around Admission, Ala.
are not satisfied with the everlasting
supply of timber in that county, and
the replanting of oak and pine trees
has begun.
An Elmira On. " florist has sue
ceeded in growing bananas in Il green
house, and the fruit is said to be vast
improvement on that imported from
the tropics.
The first salt made by white men in
Syracuse, n. Y, was made in 1888, the
annual product ut that time being one
hundred barrels. In 1880 the product
was sixteen million barrels.
-Honey-raising in cities is a new in
dustry lately developed. The editor of
magazine published in New York City
and devoted to bee culture is a practi
cal man, and keeps an apiary of one
hundred hives on the roof of his pub
fishing house in the heart of the city.
The owner says his bees gather honey
from the trees and flowers in the city,
and do not 90 beyond its limits.
DIR. Brown Sequard is said to have
discovered new anesthetic which de-
strovs sensibilitv, but not consciousness
or physical activity, for an entire day
or more. When it is administered to a
man by the hypodermic injection pro
cess, he is not incapacitated for work
no cnhTS1It r.
having his flesh cut without feeling any
pain 1t is obviously q marvellous gain
for medical science. 1t is some form OF
carbonic acid Chicago Herald.
-Curiosity-lovers and those scien-
tifcally inclined may be much gratiiied
to know that napkins are now being
made of spun glass, a luxury which few
persons will deny themselves at the
reasonable price of 500 per dozen.
They are of delicate pearl color.
about the size of an ordinary breakfast
napkin, and almost as pliable as silk.
The filling consists of minute glass
threads, crossed, by silk chain;
and the fringe of glass fiber is about
two inches long.-Chacago Journal.
The heat from an electric lamp o,
100-candle power Is from 81 to 1913 heat
units, that of the incandescent lamp OF
equal brilliancy from 200 to $50. The
argand gas-burner is the next best
light in point of GOODNESS, but this is
represented by 1850 heat-units, COLA
oil lamp by $500, fiat wick petroleum
lamp by 1900, and tallow candle by
900. Light for light. therefore, the
heat of an electric arc lamp under the.
most favorable circumstances is to the
heat of tallow candles as l to 10
n. Y. Sun.
Captain John Ericson's latest in.
vention is a ''solar engine whose use
in irrigating tropical lands entities it to
notice in this column. OF its success
the venerable inventor has no doubt
whatever. 1t may be rugged up on a
houseless and treeleSs prairie, and is
propelled by an engine set in motion
by the heat of the sun, without direct
human guidance. 1t is expected this
device will prove sufficient to irrigate
perfectly district like Southern Cali
fornia. where sunshine without rain
lasts six or seven months at stretch,
and where the sun is remarkably
fertile. In fact it is applicable to the
complete irrigation of all parts of the
country wherever the sun shines and
water may be reached by boring.