Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-05-26
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

To produce light and dark shades
of gold leaf the metal is alleged with
silver and copper.
"A man in Pittsburgh. Pa, has in
vented a potato-digger which, it is
claimed, will do the work of twenty
men.
The Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk
Consul Page in 1866 with $4,000, has
now a capital Of $4,000, 600, and turned
out 80, 1000, 900 cans last year.
The Norfolk Nrgins;an estimates
that there is coal enough in the mines
recently opened in Pocahontas County,
West Virginia, to supply the demands
of the North for two hundred wears to
come.
The London Lancet concludes that
sewers must not be ventilated by street
gratings, but only by pipes reaching
above the houses, SO that the gases may
mingle with the higher strata Of the at
mosphere.
Saving is too wasteful a process to
be used in the manufacture Of veneer
The logs are first steamed till they are
soft and then put OF a machine and a
knife shaves off strips as thin as the
thinnest tissue paper.-DetroN Post.
"A new way of stopping horse cars
has been introduced on the Sixth avenue
railroad in New York. Straps hang
against each window sash, and when the
passenger who wishes to alight pulls
one of these whistle is blown. The con-
ductor then pulls the strap, which runs
along the roof Of the car, and the bell
sounds to stop the ar.
"A Turin jeweler has made a tiny
boat formed of a single pearl, which
shape it assumes in swell and concav-
ity. Its sail is of beaten gold, studded
with diamonds, and the pinnacle light
at its PROV is a perfect ruby. An en-
erald serves as its rudder, and it's stand
is a slab of ivory. 1t weighs less than
half an ounce. Its price is $4,000.
An embroidery company has been
organized at Salamanca with a capital
of 6 1000. 1t will be the only one of
the kind in the United States. The
citizens of Salamanca will be asked to
appropriate $ $4,000 and exempt the fac
tory from taxation for ten years, which
they will probably do. The machinery
for the factory has already been ordered
in Switzerland.-Rochester IN. ~ Er-
press.
MIR. Hayden, OF Washington, is the
inventor Of an apparatus for burning
petroleum as fuel, which is claimed to
be the only one in the world that will
perform the work for which it is con-
structed. Some years ago a woman,
Miss Amanda Jones, invented an APP
paratus for burning petroleum under
steam boilers, which has been continu-
ousfy and successfully used in the oil
regions.
Mr.. H. w. L. Lewis, formerly
master of the Mississippi State Grange,
finds %tea-raising profitable. A gentle
man who visited his place writes: Ellis
tea shrubs grow luxuriantly. Two
plants throw out side branches enough
to ove . space Of ten or twelve feet
square. They are loaded with green
leaves. He a pick the leaves
four times in one season without
serious injury to the plants. The first
pickings make tho best tea. Mr.. Lewis
from two plants can make enough tea
to supply his family a year. By wilt
ing, rubbing and beating the leaves in
thin copper o. iron pans, and working
the waxy substance out, tea can be
made here on the jackson Railroad ia.
better than most Of The finest tea wa
get from China"