Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-23
SCIENCE MI INDUSTRY.

George II. Corliss, of Rhode Island,
Is building the engines for the first cot
ton mills to be erected in China.
The process of substituting steel
sleepers for wooden one has begun
with great success on German railways.
The blue-stone business of SAUCER
ties, N. Y, including the quarries, fur
nish employment for from 1900 to
1900 men.
DIR. Fields, Of St. Louis, has invent A
ed q compound which costs only one
fifth a. much as gunpowder and has
seven-tenths more explosive power
81. Louis Globe.
An Oneonta IN. W firm has ship
ped $500 worth of hop roots to Ken
lucky. The industry is a new one in
that locality, and the roots are to be
used as an experiment.-M. Y. Times.
Geological examination reveals in
the delta of the Mississippi, along q
space of 800 miles, ten distinct forests
of buried trees. Bald expresses with q
diameter of twenty-five feet have been
found. o.g /,
Among the notable things in Palat-'
ka, Fla, is the first %tangarine tree ever
budded in Florida. The bud was re-
ceived by DR.. Morangue before the war,
and from this comes all the kid-glove
oranges in that State. The tree can be
seen in his grove, which is quite cele-
brated on that account.-Chicago Times.
Injecting pine railroad ties with
chloride of zinc preserves s~eventy-nine
per cent. of them for over twenty-one
years; beech ties injected with creosote,
fifty-four per cent. for owe twenty-five
years, and oak ties injected with chlo-
ride of zinc preserved twenty-one per
cent. for over seventeen years.-N. Y.
Tribune. J.
"A new self-tending strawberry bed
is the invention of a Californian. Fill
with earth any sort of barrel that has
been bored well all round with inch.
holes. Plant strawberries in every hole
and in the open top, root downward
and top outward. 1t is q great sue
cess. It is quite ornate, and it will
keep for several months in bearing.
The Southern Silk Industrial Asso-
citation has sent the New Orleans
Tmes-D Democrat a bunch of raw silk
raised by the ladies of the association
in that city. The silk is of a beautiful
golden hue, very soft and fine, and, the
Times Democrat says, proves that as
good a quality of silk can be raised in
New Orleans and vicinity as anywhere
else.
in Science Mr.. W. H. Pickering,
carrying out a suggestion made BY
Professor Brewer, Of Yale, constructs
the of the progress of the trotting
horse in America, and finds that it will
cross the notwithstanding line about
the year 1901. He also deduces, from
statistics prepared by the same author
ity, the conclusion that at the date
mentioned there will be not far from
10000 horses in this country which can
trot q mile in 2:3O or better.
Mr.. John Pearson, q trembling old
man, who has been a resident of Fort
Smith, Ark, for forty-three years,
claims to have been the actual inventor
of the revolver patented by Colonel
Colt. He says that in 1884, while he
was working in Baltimore with y gum
smith named Baxter, Colonel Colt
hired him to make experiments, which
resulted in the perfected revolver, with
six charges in the cylinder and one
barrel. Pearson never received any re-
ward for his invention.-M Y. Post. j,