Huntsville gazette., 1884-03-01
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

An inventor of Sandy Creek. n. T..
has been offered $1,000 for half in
terest in his patent hair-pin.-M +.
Sun.
A harness-maker of Templeton.
Mass, who is ninety-three years old,
made ten harnesses last year, doing tho
stitching by hand.-Boston Pos.
A silk farm has been established in
Powhattan County, Va, by a number
of French families. Another one will
soon be established in North Carolina.
Philadelphia Press.
Ventilated bed clothes is one of the
latest inventions Of English genius.
They are perforated and allow the va
por from the body to escape.-N Y.
Times.
Brass pins were made by hand
many centuries ago. A Massachusetts
man invented those with solid head,
but their first manufacture was in Eng
land, in 1833.-BostOn Herald.
The term ''telephrage" has been
applied by Prof Fleming Jenkin to
the transmits son of vehicles by cleo
tricity to distance Independent of any
control exercised from the vehicle. y
An experimental telephrage line has
been constructed in England.
Scientists now boldly declare that
this earth was peopled fifty million
years before Adam was born. We are
not prepared to dispute this assertion
in the least. We have always wondered
how mankind could learn so much dew
iltry in only six thousand years.-Low-
ell Citizen.
People ont West who desire to raise
si1kworms need not wait to set out null
berry trees. The leaves of the Csage
orange are found to be Just as good for
s:lkworm food as those of the mul-
berry, and there are man. miles OF
Usage hedge ready for use distributed
over the west.-N. Y. Examiner.
The manufacture of rope from as
bestos is kelly to become an industry
of considerable impori an in England,
the strength of the article being esti-
mated at about one fourth that OF ordi-
nary hemp rope of the same diameter.
Rope of tn s mat rial of one and a
half inches in diameter is stated to have
breaking sra n of one ton, and twenty
feet of it are calculated to repres ent
a weight of thirteen and one-fourth
pounds.
M. Ramon de Luna brought before
the Frenth Academy of Science a
month ago treatise on "Cho,e'a from
the standpoint of Chemistry" His
view after long atention to physiologi-
cal stud es, is that this dread disease is
exclusively propagated through the res
piratory organs, and his chemical in
qu.ries convince him that the only safe
treatment is to cause the patient to in
hale with prudence hype-zot'c vapor
mixed with air.
MIR. Shields, by laying pipes perforat
ed at intervals of some hundred yards
out Of FClkstone harbor, and forcing
oil through them, successfully carried
out, the other day, his invention for
calming stormy water and making easy
the entrance for vessels in distress. AS
The oil for the purpose can be procured
for SIX pence ga Ion, and as fifteen or
twenty gallons completely calmed the
entrance to Folkstone in very stiff
bree e, it is manifest how easy of app,i-
ance and cheap the plan is.
"A Geneva n ist has invented
new and ingenious proce of tooth
drawing. A square of India rubber,
pierced with central hole, is pushed
over the tooth till the upper part of
the root is reached. The India rubber
gradually contracts, pulls on tie root,
and the offending tooth is finally enuc-
leated, without causing the patient any
pain whatever. Four or five da a:e
required to complete the operation.
Very little bleeding and slight swell
ling OF the gum are the only inconve-
nience experienced.