Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-08-14
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

-Pomegranates are being cultivated
IN the South. They yield 800 per
are.
a company has been formed in
New England for the purpose of con-
verting water into uel.-Boston Post.
During the first six months of the
current year the sum of $59, 221, 100
has been invested in new industries in
the South iscGgo Times.
The sawdust and refuse of the saw
mill is now made to yield fourteen
gallons of turpentlne, three to four
gallons OF resin, and a quantity of tar
per cord.-Ss. Louis Post.
"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 effectually.
Three years ago the Buffalo author
tiles offered $40. 900 for some invention
that would utilize the current of the
Niagara River for power at their water
worhs; and William III. Britton, of that
city, has the model OF a horizontal tur-
bine wheel which he thinks will do it.
BuJGlo Express.
blasting paper is a recent Austrian
invention. 1t is described as being un-
sized or ordinary blotting paper, coated
with 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 now be-
ing used on considerable scale q fuel
Tor locomotives, stationary engines.
smelling purposes, smiths fires and
household use. The peat is mixed with
a proper proportion of bitumen, ami is
said not only to burn freely, and with
give a higher dynamic equivalent of
heat than the same amount of wood. =
Chicago Times.
An Atlanta Ca publisher has in
vented new method of photo-litho-
graphing by which it is claimed per-
feet cop es of the finest steel engravIngs
may be taken ON the photographic stone,
ready for printing, in less than five m n
utes' time. The process, it is SAID. is
very simple, and can be performed b. a
boy a well as an expert. By means 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
He all.
The growing vegetable world
breathes carbonic acid gas through its
leaves. using the carbon to build up it's
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 after combustion, COM
bined with lime or 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 carbonlc acid
gas.-N. T. Times.
If. says N. c. Montigny in L'Elec-
tricite. we cast a rapid glance over the
progress that has been made in cleo
tricity in less than half century. we
shall see that after presenting itself
suddenly under an entirely new form in
the Volta pile, after manifesting its sur
prising action upon magnets and cur
rents at moment when the science of
the phenomena engendered by the pi e
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 means.