Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-09-05
SCIENCE AND NDUSTRt'

-Pomegranates are being cultivated
in the South. They yield S|oo Pef
acre.
"A company has been formed In
New England for the purpose OF con
verting water into fue l.-Boston Post.
During the first six months OF the
current year the sum Of So9,22l.ooo
has been invested in new industries IN
the South-ChacGqo Times.
The sawdust and refuse of the saw
mill is now made to yield fourteen
gallons of turpentlne, three to tour
gallons of resin, and q quantity OF tar
per cord.-St. Louis POSI-
A Hazelhurst (Miss.) man has
started a new industry. He ships toads
to Louisville florists. who use them to
rid their plants of insects, which. it is
said, they do very eflectually.
Three vea o the Buffalo author
tiles offered so. 900 for some invention
that would utili,e the current Of the
Niagara River for power at their water
works; and William II. Brltton, of that
city, has the model OF q horizontal tur-
bine wheel which he thinks will do it.
6n!yao Express.
Blasting paper is a recent Austrian
invention. 1t is described as being I'M
sized or ordinary blotting paper, coated
with a mixture of prussiate OF potash,
of charcoal, saltpeter, potassium,
chlorate and white starch. On its
being dried it is cut into strips, which
are rolled into cartridges.
The bog peat OF Mexico is o be-
ing used on a considerable scale a. fuel
for locomotives, stationary engines,
smelling purposes, smiths fires and
household use, The peat ismixed with
a proper proportion Of bitumen. and is
said not only to burn freely, and with
out smoke in much quantity, but to
give a higher dynamic equivalent of
heat than the same amount of wood
Chicago Times.
An Atlanta (Ga.) publisher has in
vented a new method of photo-litho-
graphing by which it is claimed per-
feet copies of the finest steel e%ngravinys
may be taken on the photographic stone,
ready for printing, in less than five min
utes time. The process, it is sad. is
very simple, and can be performed by a
boy as well as an expert. By mean Of
it, too, the inventor claims that he can
make zinc and other metal printing
plates. The original picture, it is said,
is not injured by the process Chicago
Hesula.
1.-The growing vegetable world
breathes carbonic acid gas through its
leaves, using the carbon to build up its
structures, setting oxygen free for the
use Of the animal world, which inter
change is constantly going on. The
carbon SO appropriated is found in the
ash of plants alter combustion, COM
bined with lime OF some other mineral,
but the larger proportion is again
driven off during the combustion, in
which progress it is again united to
oxygen in the shape Of carbon1c acid
gas.-M. 7. Times.
If, says M. c. Montigny in L'Elec-
hicite, we cast a rapid glance over the
progress that has been made in cleo
triclty in less than half a century. we
shall see that after presenting itself
suddenly under an entirely new form in
the Volta pile, after manifesting it's sur
prising action upon magnets and cur
rents at a moment when the science of
the phenomena en%gcndered by the pie
seemed to some to be exhausted, cleo
tricity is again presenting itself under
a new light in induction apparatus
wherein it is excited by the most sur
prising mean