Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-02-12
SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE,

No substitute for ivory has been
found that will equal it in taking a
polish.
A new horse shoe has the calks Sc
cured by screws, having their heads
countersunk in the shoe.
An engine has been invented in
Germany which runs by the expan-
sive gas of gun powder. 1t is cheap,
economical and powerful.
Probably the largest dry-docks in
the world are at the Erie Basin, South
Brooklyn, NY. The largest is $50
by Ill feet, and thirty feet deep.
A decoction of onion peel produces
a beautiful orange-yellow on leather
and is fixed color. 1t may be mod
ulated to any shade of brown.
Mr.. Geo. Ely, Hill-road, Wimble-
tou, Eng, is the proud owner of a
duck that has three legs. Probably
it uses number three as a steering
oar.
Since good qualitity of ochre has
been found in quantities in Virginia
the price of the French article has
fallen from 334 cents to n cents
per pound.
An improved wagon tire has been
patented which can be frightened with
out the aid of a blacksmith. The
patentees hail from Wyoming Terri
tory.
Hon. Phineas Jones says that in
one of the fast working carriage
shops, he saw them set 80 tires in 80
minutes, No wonder they can afford
to sell top-buggies for $50.
The output of anthracite coal in
Pennsylvania was last year the larg-
est on record, being in round num-
bers 29,5OO.OOO tons, or nearly
1000, 900 tons more than in 1881.
The Dairy Industry of France is
assuming formidable proportions.
Last year France exported over "a
Kilograms of butter, and received for
it more than half million dollars.
Mr.. Edward Atkinson says that
100000 men and women now make
our cotton cloth, but that if we were
to return to the old methods of hand
loom and spinning wheel it would
require 100000.
Valuable tin mines have been dis
covered in Clay county, Alabama
Machinery has been erected and work
commenced on an extensive scale
The chief supply of tin has hitherto
come from Germany.
Robert Bonner has yearling col
which weighs 1902 pounds. He as
cribes it's rapid growth to his plan o
teaching it to eat freely of oats, etc.
before being weaned. There wa
thus no check to its growth.
And now they say that PLUMBING
is not only the most profitable busi
ness in the world-neXt to keepin
a beer saloon, but is by far the mos
healthy. No plumbers widows c
orphan children appear on the RECORD
A new metal has been invente
for the lining of journal boxes.
is an amalgam of tin, mercury, plum
bago, etc., and is recommended g
most durable and useful materi;
for railway axles, and bearings {
every description.
A new traction engine for plowins
yard work, etc., has been invente
by Kansas man, which overcome
the old objections. 1t has a contil
uous rubber band passing over bot
drive wheels which supplies a tract
and prevents the wheels sinking
the dirt, etc.
An improved hammer consists
hollow handle through which pa
ses an iron or steel rod which screy
into the eye of the hammer. II
advantage of this invention is tn
the handle is made stronger for pu
ing nails, etc., and is securely ia
tened to the hammer.
Interesting: Aztec remains ha
been discovered in LaPlata Count
Colorado. Nearly all the bones
the body have been found in a ste
of good preservation. Pottery, sto
implements, parchments, etc., ha
also been found in quantities tt
demonstrate it to be region of GRE
value to archaeology.
The deepest coal mine in Amer
is said to be in Pottsville, Pei
The shaft is 1876 feet in depth. 7
cars holding four tons each are 1
upon platform, and the VIII
weight of six tons is lifted in lit
more than a minute by machine
that works as smoothly as he
elevator. The output is 200
loads a day.
STATISTICS OF DRINKING
Again and again Congress
been petitioned to appoint comm
sion to collect statistics showing
aytant and raCultc of tho t,So Of