Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-07-03
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

"A Southington Comm man has
invented noiseless rolling-skate, and
applied for patent
New Mexico will produce larger
crop of grain, vegetabessand fruit this
| year than was ever before known in
| its history. Chicago Times.
"A process has been discov cred by
which artificial ivory can be made
from the bones d ss6eep and goats and
the waste otsW hite skins Philadelphia
-colonels b o. GilIespie, Of Cali
fornia, has leased 100 acres of land
which will all be planted in water
melons this season. 1t will be the big
gest melon patch in the world. San
francisco Chronicle.
Fine writing on glazed paper will
give one or two fair copies without
calling in. the assistance of q press or
water if USE is made of writing
solution of three parts of good, jet
black ink, and one part of gelatlne.
N. Y. Nea0s.
The planting of cocoanut orchards
Is beginning to be q regular industry
in the Fiji and some other of the
South Sea Islands. The trees are
planted about twenty feet apart and
after three years. can be left to them
selves. IA the eighth year they be-
gin to bear fruit. ~
The latest triumph in science is
said to be muscle-reading. 1t is
claimed that any eNertion of the
mind produces a. muscular .eontrac-
ton, and by #placing himself in
immediate contact with the person,
the muscle-reader can tell what such
person is thinking about. Chicago
Inter Ocean.
L 1t IS stated that John Porter. an
engineer on the Michigan Central
Road, has been offered SAL 900 for his
patent on an attachment to steam
cylinder which condenses the waste
from the steam cock on starting the en-
CINE, thereby averting that Kissing
noise which IS so disagreeable to the
ear and such a terror to horseshoe
troit Posts aAs~A .saxg~ .ysse ~xsa -
The Pharmaceutical Journal says
that in Cana honey IS Extracted from
the comb bySa cen rifuga1 machine and
the comb replaced; the bees. when in
good condition, will fill it again in four
days. After two seasons use the comb
is melted into Foundation comb, up
on which the bees quickly put the
finishing touches. ) Canadian wax is
practically out of the market; the sup
ply is principally obtained from Africa.
/ The pail andtub industry of Keene,
| N. H., consumes more timber than all
others carried on in Cheshire County.
There are forty pail factories, making
100, 600 pals a year, consuming $50
cords Of sapling, which gives a product
of 10000 pals from $4,000 cords of
pine. The twenty tub and bucket
lathes use proportionately large guam
tity, and as great quantities of slaves
are sawed and sold for use outside the
| county, is is probable that 10000 cords
of sapling pines are cut every year.
Besides much hardwood that is cut for
manufacturing purposes, vast guam
tity is used for fuel.-Boston Post.
Biologists are now claiming that
the Rocky Mountains have been raised
to their present height by the action of
heat under them, while in parts where
the earth is cooling most rapidly it is
sinking. Off the coast of Florida the
coast survey operations have brought
up from the bottom of the deep sea the
remains of animals that lived ages
upon ages ago in the bottoms of rivers
or upon land. The evidence that they
were not washed out to sea was
abundant. In the English channel,
hundreds of feet deep, were found rich
stores OF mammoth ivory. The animals
had died where the remains were found
long before there was any water there.