The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-01-10
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

A stone dwelling at Phpnixville, |
Pa, weighing five hundred tons has |
been moved 900 yards without injury. |
A new device has been patented in
Londop for generating electricity at so
small cost that it will be cheaper than
gas.
A new kind of cloth is being made
in Lyons from the down of hens, ducks
and geese Seven hundred and fifty
grains of feathers make one square
meter of light and very warm water
proof cloth. which can be dyed in all
shades.
The best use to which the electric
light could be puts as a locomotive head
light, A successful experiment has been
made in Chicago, the electricity being
generated by dynamo situated in
front of the cylinder and worked from
the cab. The light illumined the track
for a third Of mile CHICAGO later
Ocean
Paper lumber is the newest inven-
ton. 1t is made of the pulp of wheat
rye and oats straw and other vegetable
tibers They are combined with chem
-.
that Is said TO compare favorably with
the best wood 1t is susceptible of the
finest polish and will take any tint OF
color. --BoStou Post.
In the course of a recent lecture in
Baltimore on the subject of food and
the markets in their relations to mu-
nicipal hygiene, DR.. John 5. Billings
affirmed that ffty-three diphtheria cpl
| denies. seven scarlet-fever epidemicS
and twelve typhoid epidemics in Eng
| land had been directly traced to the
milk supply.-Baltimore Sun.
! The fuel employed has great in
! fluence on the color and quality OF
| bricks. Some Goals contain foreign
substances. which produce gases unfa,
/ vorable 10 the development and fixing
/ of the natural red color of the brick, a.
well as to its quality. Sulphurous gases
are especially dangerous. They unit
with the free oxygen which Is retained
in the bricks and form sulphat2s which
not only spoil the color but destroy the
/ durability of the brick under atmos-
| pheric changes. Another frequent result
is that 4 white crust forms on the out
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| Dried aprico.s are likely to be q
prominent article of export from Cali
fornia. Heretofore this fruit has been
put up almost entirely in tin cans. but.
in consequence OF over-production, the
canning factories reduced the price paid
TO the farmer to such a figure that he
was driven to experimenting with vari,
Gus processes of driving, and discovered
method that leaves the fruit in 6
delicious state California fruit-grower:
are now going largely into apricot dry
ing, but it is thought they never vii
produce more than the markets of tbs
United States alone are prepared to con
sume-Sdq Francisco CRr0nic'e.
One OF the latest novelties in lamp
shades is iced or cracked glass. which
/ was the invention of a renchmar
named Ray The peculiar cracked ap
pearanee IS obtained by covering tn,
surface of the sheet of glass with thicl
coating of some coarse-grained tlux o
some more easily fusible glass, and thei
subiecting It TO the action of stron.
fire. As soon as the coating is fuse,
and the table red hot. it is withdraw
and rapidly subjected to coolin:
process. which at once separates til
LAYER of fiux from the underlying sur
face and leaves behind the evidence O
its attachment TO the same in irregula
outlines, scales. crystal forms, etc
n. T. Times.