Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-07-04
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

1t is estimated that four million
strawberry plants were SET IN west
Tennessee this spring.
"A new process in shot-maklng does
away with all the tall towers. A strong
current of air is forced on the lead IS 1t
falls into the water.
-Yankton, Dakota, is to have a
pork-packing establishment, with Ca
pacity of one thousand hogs per day.
"A Pasadena (Cal.) man has invent
ed an apparatus for grating vines
which is said to be a great improve
ment over the hand method, and by 1t
two men can graft 1920 vines in ten
hours.
DIR. Vinke writes in the St. Louis
Courier of Medicine that more persons
are killed by the enormous amount OF
whisky they take when bitten by a
snake than by the bite itself. He has
himself used large doses of quinine in
snake bite with success, and wants ply
siclans to test the remedy.
TWENTY-FIVE years ago the ice con-
sumed in Texas was carried from Bos-
ton in sailing vessels, and the people of
the interior Of the State seldom saw any
of it. Now there are ice factories at
Denison. Fort Worth, Waco, Austin,
San Antonio, Houston, Dallas, and in
fact in nearly all the large towns, and
the cooling luxury is cheap and COM
mon.
"A peculiar kind of building stone
is found in some localities in Oregon,
having the property of being uniniured
by the action of cold, heat or moisture.
1t is called granite sandstone, is very
rich in Silica, of q close, fine grain,
highly crystalized. u~nlaminated and Of
q fine brown color. On being brought
to q white heat and suddenly plunged
in cold water it comes out as solid and
firm as at first.-Lhicago Journal.
There is an invention spoken o.
which it is thought may abolish the bit
1t is called the Garage, or anti-horst
torture. 1t is composed of a steel banc
placed over the front bone of the horse:
nose, and to this appliance the rein:
are attached. The inventor claims fol
this substitute for the bit that it gives
complete control to the driver over the
horse without intlicting the least dis
comfort or torture on the animal itself
1t has been tried with satisfactory re
sults.-N. Y. San.
DR.. Thomas Stevenson, in Guys
Hospital reports, asserts ''that water
does, under certain conditions, ac1
energetically upon zinc and upon gal
vanized iron" AS zinc and galvanized
iron tanks are commonly used for stor
ing water, it is we'll to know DR.
S%teyenson's test for the presence o
zinc in that fluid. The clear water il
slightly acidulated with hydrochlorit
acid, f%errocyanide of potassium is thc1
added; if zinc be present a whitisl
cloud will immediately form.
At a recent fire in Boston the In
surance Brigade used a new device TO:
the first time. 1t is called . water tun
mel, and is used to carry water from
floors to the street. 1t is simply a larg,
tunnel of conical shape, similar to tina
used for pouring liquids into narrow
mouthed receptacles, and has a shor
piece of hose attached, which is carried
out of a window. The device ismouthec
on a tripod, and is placed directly un
der a hole cut through the floor above
The water on the floor is then forced il
the hole and carried through the hos
into the street, instead of being driver
down the stairway, as has before beel
the case.-Bost0n Post. .-.