The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1883-01-03
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.
Paper yeneers are to be made In


Paper yeneers are TO be made In .
actory at Sandwich, Mass. .s.ss.
The arkansas Gazette says that as
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. It seems TO be
especially adapted for deaf musicians.
---Bost0H Post.
"A company OF capitalists have no.
titled the council Of Kingston, as they
have Of Hamilton, that they purpose
erecting In Canada large rolling. mill,
blast.flrnaces, foundry, machlne.shops,
and nail.factory, with q capita! OF ut
least 81 ,OO0, 900, and give employment
TO twelve bundled mon, utilizing Cana
dian ores.
This Is the receipt which NJ. c. Lar
rabec employs in making a dye for sole
leather: Seven hundred and fifty
grammes Paris yellow, $50 grammes
chrome yellow, 1880 grammes pipe
clay, 1000 grammes quercitron, 1000
granmes alum, 100 grammes sulphuric
acid, and 4 litres tragacanth solution.
SO little IL 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 80 far this year over $780,
| 600 pounds. Knoxville and Nashville
are going into the business extensively,
and lesser places more modestly.-N. Y.
SIN.
A Munich professor has invented a
bracelet that will remedy the aflliction
known as "writer's cramp." The PEN
holder is fastened to the bracelet in such
@ manner that 1t can be used TO write
with ease and without bringing the
fingers into use at all. The hand can
rest on the table, moving easily along
as the letters are traced, and 1t is said
that little practice is required to give
expertness In the use Of the invention.
by means Of what he calls gyro.
graph, DR.. Caudeze has been able tt
take photographs Of landscapes from
the windows Of train running at thu
rate OF forty miles an hour. The appa
ratus consists Of q copper tube simila
TO that which carries the lenses in NJ
ordinary camera, but in 1t the lenses ar,
placed on opposite sides parallel TO tn
Axis. Within Is shutter similar to tn,
box of stop-cock. 1t presents TIVE
square openings, which do no let tn
rays pass in making quarter Of turn
4 rotary motion is produced by tn
action OF a spring. Only an exposur
Of the one.hundredth Of second
necessary to obtain wonderfully distinc
views.
A writer in an exchange says:
discovered many years ago that WOO
could be made to last longer than iro
in the ground, but thought the process
so simple that 1t was not well to make
stir abonu 1t. would Gs soon hay
poplar, Eastwood or ash as any otbe
kind Of timber for fence posts. l hav
taken out Eastwood posts after havin
been set for seven years that were q
3ound when taken out rs when first pu
in the ground, Time and weatht
seemed to have no effect on them. Tn
Q posts can be prepared for less than tw
n cents apiece. This is the recipe: TAX
!. boiled linseed oil and stir in pulverize
i coal to tho consistency Of paint. Put
a coat Of this over the timber, and thel
Q is no. man that will live to see II rot.