Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-07-11
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

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Two Western inventors have NJ
....;v obtained patents for the use 81
N Whist instead of sand in plasterino
COMPOSITIONS.
An Ontario village is lighted with
x,s made from sawdust, said to be equAi
3 coal gas and free from SULPHUR
MouheaJ Witness.
"A mar at Enterprise, Miss, has
..len out a Patent for an invention for
a;tchlng a horse to a buggy without any
harness except the collar.
-Glass is becoming fashionable as .
,rotection to oil paintings, and as a
Safeguard against moths and damp the
lacks of valuable pictures are covered
With rubber cloth.-Boston Globe.
DIR. Wilson, in the Medical News.
claims to have obtained much better re-
snl.s from the use OF the internal men,
brane of hens eggs for healing largs
surfaces in wounds than from either hui
man or rabbit skin.
Two cases have been reported to an
English medical society in which the
olectro-magnet has been successfully
usea for removing pieces of iron from
the Eve. Without the magnet it is
thought that the sight of the in ured eve
must have been lost in each case.
An exchange says that ''by means
of an ingenious instrument invented BY
DR.. Lombard. of New York, it is ascer-
famed that a woman's body is warmer
Than that of a man by three-fourths of
a deglee. and sometimes as high as one
half OF a degree, while in no instance
has the warmth of a males body been
found to be greater than that Of q fe-
male"
The time required for the forma,
ton of mineral veins appears to be-
much less than has been generally sup
posed. A ditch which was filled up two
Years ago with common clay containing
iron, has just been opened again by Dr.
Fleitman, who has found, to his great
surprise, that the clay has become White
and is permeated by racks filled with
compact iron pyrites, these veins being
from q twenty-tifth to a sixth of an inch
in thickness.-M. Y. Mail.
A model of a novel canal-bcat has
been placed on exhibition by a Cleve-
land inventor. The boat is to be pro-
PEELED by a screw, so geared that it a
be made to turn by horses or mules
travelling in a circle in their stable in
the boat. The inventor claims that
abundant power can be had in this
manner aud that a large saving can be
elected, particularly in river towing
bills and by the reduction of help; that
it would be cheaper than the present
method of towing even though no bet
ter time were made, but he is confident
that four or five miles an hour can DO
accomplished.-Czevelan Leader.
Hitherto it has puzzled eminent
surgeons to account for sudden death
caused by apparently inadequate
wounds in the heart. such as those
made by the prick, without penetration
even, OF a needle. Herr schmey, q
student of the Physiological Institute.
Berlin, has, however, discovered that
when a needle pricks a certain small
spot on the lower border of the upper
third of the septum cords, quite in
simultaneously the movements of the
heart are arrested and forever set mo-
tionless IN death.
If any one doubts that the Ameri-
cans are an inventive people, let him
canine the Patent Office reports,
which few, however, will do, as they
would rather accept the newspaper
statements as veritable than wade
through a library Of shelved and dusty
volumes. The patents granted by the
Government reach to the enormous
number of nearly 800, 600. There have
been no less than $3.50 patents OBJ
tanned on the plow alone, about as many
on the harvester, and over 5000 on
stoves and furnaces. 1t sounds singu-
lar, in this connection, to hear that 500
separate and distinct ways have been
discovered Of making a corset.-Wash-
angton Star.