Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-02-08
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

A Los Angeles (Cal.) man is OK
pe%rimenting on ripening wines by elec-'
:ricity.
Mrs. Belle M. Sahlein, of San Fran.
cisco. has been granted q patent'for q
hoy-coyer attachment. She is the third
| California lady that has boon honored
nv a natent award from the United States
| Goyernment.-Sdn Francisco CdU.
The Canadians have perfected q
v~elocipede sleigh. The rider is seated
on a bicycle of the usual character. the
large wheel having spokes to catch hold
of the ice. There is an outside frame
attached, on which are four pieces of
steel the shape and size of the steel at
the bottom of an ordinary skate.-Chi-
cago Times.
John l.. Mcmillan, who is making
a type-scttlng machine in lion, n. Y,
| with which he expects to set 1900 M
an hour, says that 100000 was spent
on the Alden typesetting and distrib-
uting machine before it was given up as
impracticable, and that $1,000, 900 was
wasted on the Page machine, whose
patent right was subsequently sold for
$40, OOO.-N. Y. Sun.
-lQGIC Has Dctu lOuHu a i1SW SPSSlCS
of native clover in Florida, that grows
in the flat woods in detached stems and
punches throughout the timberland.
The Department. of Agriculture at WASH
ington a y that if it could be grown in
quantities so as to get seed, ETC., it
would be valuable as a forage plant.
There seems to be plenty Of seed in the
proper season.-Phuadelphia Press.
I'm a letter to the London Times .
gentleman states that experiments made
with a view to investigating the scatter
ing of shot have convinced him that
with an ordinary gun and ammunition
there is much more scattering than peo-
pie imagine, and to this fact he attrib-
utes many shooting casualties. For
this reason he publishes the result of
his experiments, with the hope that per-
sons who use firearms will be more
careful in the matter. X,
"A device to radically change the
present methodof ventilating cars, both
horse and steam, has recently been in
vented. Its operation is to furnish a
constant amount of fresh air and a with
drawal of a similar amount of vitiated
air. 1t consists of opening at the ends
of the cars at the upper corners or in
the monitor tops with covering on all
sides, having the appearance of a large
tube or pipe open at the ends and also
opening into the cars, with a partition
in the center. Thus the air in the first
half of the car is compelled to enter the
car, while the work Of withdrawal is
done by the latter shaft openings
Boston Globe. IS
-'In the Chelsea High School," says
the Boston 1ranscript, sis a telephone
made of the halves Of a cigar box, with
the diaphragms of sheet-iron and cleo
tro-magnets whose distances from the
diaphragms are controlled by screws of
the simplest kind. In every way the
instrument is very crude. The thing.
however, works satisfactorily, and be-
cause of its large and easily seen parts
it is still employed to illustrate the fun
damental principles of the telephone.
The instrument was the invention of
Mr.. Albert H. Low. of Chelsea, who
had got thus far in working out his
ideas when the announcement of Pro-
fessor Bells invention rendered further
experiments unnecessary.