Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-07-25
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

"A Southington Conn., man has
invented a noiseless rolling-skate, and
applied for a patent.
New Mexico will produce q larger
crop Of grain, vegetables and fruit this
year than was ever before known IN
its history.-Micago Times.
Fine writing on glazed paper win
give one or two fair copies without
calling in the assistance of a press or
water Is use is made of a writing
solution of three parts of good, jet
black ink, and one part OF gelatlne.-
N. Y. News.
Colonel l.. 0. Gillespie, Of Cali
fornia, has leased 400 acres OF land
which will all be planted in water
melons this season. 1t will be the big
gest melon patch in the world.-SG"
francisco Chronicle.
The planting Of cocoanut orchards
is beginning to be a regular industry
in the Fiji and some other of the
South Sea Islands. The trees are
planted about twenty feet apart and
after three years q be left to them
selves. In the eighth year they be-
gin to bear fruit.
-.The latest triumph in science is
said to be muscle-reading. 1t is
claimed that any eHertion of the
mind produces Il muscular contrac.
tion, and by placing himself in
Immediate contact with the person.
the muscle-readcr can tell what such
person is thinking about.-C Chicago
inter- Occan.
1t is stated that John Porter, an
engineer on the Michigan Central
Road, has been offered $4,000 for his
patent on an attachment to a steam
cylinder which condenses the waste
from the steam cock on starting the IN
CINE. thereby averting that Kissing
noise which is SO disagreeablo to the
ear and such q terror to horseshoe
troU Post.
The Pharmaceutical Journal says
that in Canada honey is extracted from
the comb by a cen rifugal machine and
the comb replaced; the bees. when in
good condition, will fill it again in four
days. After two seasons use the comb
is melted into Foundation comb" up
on which the bees quickly put the
finishing touches. Canadian wax is
practically out of the market; the sup
ply is principally obtained from Africa.
The pail andtub industryof Keene,
N. H., consumes more timber than all
others carried on in Cheshire County.
There are forty pail factories, making
100000 pals a year, consuming $50
cords of sapling, which gives q product
of 1000, 600 pals from $4,000 cords of
pine. The twenty tub and bucket
lathes use a proportionately large GUAM
tity, and as great quantities Of slaves
are sawed and sold for use outside the
county, is is probable that 10000 cords
of sapling pines are cut every year.
Besides much hardwood that is cut for
manufacturing purposes, q vast guam
tity is used for fuel.-Boston Post.
-Geologists are now claiming that
the Rocky Mountains have been raised
to their present height by the action of
heat under them, while III parts where
the earth is cooling most rapidly it is
sinking. Off the coast of Florida the
coast survey operations have brought
up from the bottom Of the deep sea the
remains of animals that lived ages
upon ages ago in the bottoms of rivers
or upon land. The evidence that they
were not washed out to sea was
abundant. In the English channel,
hundreds of feet deep, were found rich
stores of mammoth ivory. The animals
had died where the remains were found
long before there was any water there.