Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-06-19
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

n TEEE 81
/ 1.-Two Western inventors have re-
Gently obtained patents for the use Of
sawdust instead of sand In plastering
compositions.
An Ontario village is lighted with
gas made from sawdust, said to be equal
| to coal gas and free from sulphur
Montreal Witness.
F. "A man at Enterprise. Miss, has
taken out q patent for an invention fol
hitch,ng horse to a buggy without any
harness except the collar.
Glass is becoming fashionable as .
protection to Oil paintings, and as a
safeguard against moths and damp the
backs of valuable pictures are covered
with rubber cloth. -Boston Globe.
DIR. Wilson, in the Medical Nescs,
claims to have obtained much better re-
suits from the use of the internal MEM
brane of hens eggs for healing large
surfaces in wounds than from either hui
man or rabbit skin.
Two cases have been reported to an
English medical society in which the
electromagnetic has been successfully
used for removing pieces of iron from
the eye. Without the magnet it is
thought that the sight of the il; ured eye
must have been lost in each case.
An exchange says that s'by means
OF an ingenious instrument invented by
DR.. Lombard of New York, it is ascer-
tanned that a woman's body is warmer
than that of man by three fourths Of
degree, and sometimes as high as one
half OF degree, while in no instance
has the warmth of males body been
IN ho Af1,e t1ov fhCk IF 70
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 filed up two
years ago with common clay containing
iron. has just been opened again by DE-.
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 twenty-tifth to sixth of an inch
in thickness.-N. Y. MHal.
"A model of novel canal-boat has
been placed on exhibition by aCleve-
land inventor. The boat is to be pro-
PEELED by screw, so geared that it can
be made to turn by horses or mules
travelling in circle in their stable in
the boat. The inventor claims that
abundant power can be had in this
manner, and that 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 be
aceompl she'd Cleveland Leader. SO %
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,
student of the Physiological Institute,
Berlin, has, however, discovered that
when a. needle pricks a certain small
spot on the lower border of the u per
third of the septum ccrdis, quite in
the movements of the
heart are arrested and forever set mo-
ionless IN death.
If any one doubts that the Ameri-
cans are an inventive people, let him
examine the Patent Office reports,
which few, however, will do, as they
would rather accept the newspaper
as ,eritable than wade
a library of shelved and dusty |
volumes. The patents granted by the |
reach to the enormous
number of nearly 100000. There have
been no less than $3.50 patents OBJ. |
famed on the pillow alone. about as many
On the harvester, and over 5000 on |
stoves and furnaces. 1t sounds singu |
lar, in this connection, to hear that sos |
separate and distinct WAYS have beer |
discovered OF making corset Wash.
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