The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-11-11
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slSolY and collectively the farmers /,
Kansas realize $50, 100000 annually iron
the grass crop OF the State. Even .hi
Item clone brings an average income Q
nearly $50 per year TO every man, woman
and child In Kansas. Several Thousand
steam hay.presses are busy the year rount
buifing It and shipping It abroad.
On. MlLl's method Of determining The
total solid matter In different waters |.
based on the fact that a small glass bead
with a weight attached, will rise in q Gal.
Inc solution Of known strength, tho more
slowly the greater the anotnt Of solyen,
pressure. The rate Of ascent Is also de.
pendent on the nature Of the soluble mat.
ter.
TIE dioscope does for the eye what the
telephone does for the ear. An objective
lens Is fitted In some hall OF entertain.
inent, and by nh electric wire communi.
cation Is established with a small white
glass plate In a roomat any distance. Ex.
Guiding the light from this room a cott.
pletc reflection Is obtained OF whit is
passing in the hall.
a SCIENTIFIC journal reports TINT a COM
position OF sand, cork and lime nodded
into blocks Is 10Y On trial in Germany for
building light partitions. 1t Is said to
have tho advantage Of excluding sounds
better than ordinary brickwork, while
being light and d good non.fonductor,
But II composition OF hardwood sawdust
applied on lath like common plaster Ia
cheaper than the German method Of con.
strnctins partitions, is much lighter, and
has other desirable qualities.
TuE value OF crushed ice as a dressing
for burns and scalls, first pointed out by
Sir james Earle, is confirmed bv DR..
Richardson. Tho Ice, after being reduced
by crushing, or scraping to n fine state Of
division as dry rs possible, is mixed with
fresh lard into a paste, which Is placed In
a thin cambria bag and laid upon the burn.
This is said to Danish oil pain until the
mixture has so far melted that a fresh
dressing is necessary.
BGs&MEE s!eel iails can be made, it Is
reported, now much more chcaply than
iron nails, owing to the cheaper prelimi.
nary process in preparing the metal for
making them. a few men can 10 what
hundreds have been required TO do here
totore. The complaint is made that hay.
lns ! smoother surface than iron nails,
those OF steel lnve less grip on the sur.
rounding material. But they have not |
yet been used extensively enough to test
their value fully.
PROFESSOR De CItAuMoxr, in a lecture
the London Health Exhibition on
and its prevention, SAYS there Ia
but one true disinieclant and that is fire,
'tThe majority OF disinfectants," he de-
'arc simply dcoaoran,s. The idea
tobacco smoke or the olor OF cam
phor Is destructive OF contagious is still
extensively held, though it is simply alb.
surd. a true disintectant is one that will |
Kill the germ or living particle in which
contagious principle resides or through
which it is conveyed"
A CAREFUL naturalist who has been |
studying the conditions under which the
epidemic potato rot, caused BY a minute
fungus vegetation known as the Perenos. |
porn i%ntectus, makes its ravages, and finds
that the presence of an excess OF nitric |
lcid in the soil and atmosphere is al ways
an accompaniment OF the blight. All
Iungi rs is known, consume large iuanti.
ties OF nitrogen; so, whether the presence
the acid causes or merely accelerates |
the disaster to the crop, is d question to be
by future observation.
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