The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-01-04
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.
Paper veneers are to be made In q
actory at Sandwich, Mass. ,xszr. H..

-Faper V0neerS are TO be made In q
actory at Sandwich, Mass. .sss~s 49,.
The arkansas Gazette says that as
n fruit-growing State Arkansas is devel.
oping wonderfully fast. The apple
crop this year is prodigious and can not
be taken care of. Thousands Of bushels
are being dried and shipped to all parts
of the world.
An attachment for reed organs has
been invented by means of which the
player, reading from dial like that
used to indicate the power of steam,
knows just what degree of dynamic
force he is producing. 1t seems to be-
especially adapted for deaf musicians.
-Boston Post.
a company of capitalists have no.
tilted the council Of Kingston, as they
have OF Hamilton, that they purpose
erecting in Canada large rolling mill,
olast-furnaces, foundry, machine-shops,
and nail.factory, With q capital of at
least 81 100000, and give employment
20 twelve hundled men, utilizing Cana
dian ores.
b This is the receipt which Nj. G.. Lar
rabec employs in making dye for sole
leather: Seven hundred and fifty
grammes Paris yellow, $50 grammes
chrome yellow, 1850 grammes pipe-
clay, l,O0O grammes quercitron, 1000
grammes alum, $50 grammes sulphuric
acid, and litres tragacanth solution.
SO little is heard about the indus
tries of Tennessee nowadays that most
people will be surprised to learn that,
while two years ago hardly pound of
dried fruit was shipped from Chatta-
nooga, the dealers in this city alone
have handled so far this year over 75O,-
600 pounds. Knoxville and Nashville
arc going into the business extensively.
and lesser places more modestly.-N. Y.
Sun.
"A Munich professor has invented q
bracelet that will remedy the alliction
known as "writer's cramp." The PEN
holder is fastened to the bracelet in such
manner that it can be used to write
with ease and without bringing tho
fingers into use at all. The hand can
rest on the table, moving easily along
rs the letters are traced, and it Is said
that little practice is required to give
expertness in the use of the invention.
BY means of what he calls q gyro.
graph, DR.. Caudeze has been able TO
take photographs of landscapes from
the windows of train running at the
rate Of forty miles an hour. The appa-
ratus consists of q copper tube similar
to that which carries tho lenses in an
ordinary camera, but in it the lenses are
placed on opposite sides parallel to the
axis. Within is q shutter simila" TO the
box of stop-cock. 1t presents swc
square openings, which do no let tho
rays pass in making quarter of turn.
a rotary motion is produced by the
action of spring. Only an exposure
of the one-hundredth of q second is
necessary to obtain wonderfully distinct
views.
A writer in an exchange SAYS: 81
discovered many years ago that wood
could be made TO last longer than iron
in the ground, but thought the process
so simple that it was not well to make a
stir abouu it. ! would as soon have
poplar, Eastwood or ash as any other
kind Of timber for fence posts. / hay.
taken out Eastwood posts after having
been set for seven years that were as
sound when taken out as when first put
IN the ground. Time and weather
seemed to have no effect on them. The
posts can be prepared for less than two
cents apiece. This is the recipe: Take
boiled linseed oil and stir in pulyerized
coal to the consistency of paint. Put o
coat OF this over the timber, and there
is not man that will live to see it rot"