The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-06-20
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

1t is estimated that four million
ytrawberry plants were set in West
Tennessee this spring.
"A new process in matchmaking does
away with all the tall towers. A strong
current of air is forced on the lead as it
falls into the water.
-Yankton, Dakota, is to have a
pork-packing establishment, with a 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 great improve
ment over the hand method, and by it
two men can graft 200 vines in ten
hours. -, ..N..,... $780,
DIR. Vinke writes in the st. Louis
Courier of Metiicine that more persons
are killed by the enormous amount of
whisky they take when bitten by q
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,I5s us.
"A peculiar kind of building stone
is found in some localities in Oregon,
having the property of being uninjured
by the action of cold, heat or moisture.
1t is called granite sandstone, is very
rich in Silica, of close, fine grain,
highly crystalized. illuminated and of
a fine brown color. On being brought
to white heat and suddenly plunged
in cold water it comes out as solid and
firm as at first. chicago Journal.
There is an invention spoken Of
which it is thought may abolish the bit.
1t is called the Garage, or anti-horse
torture. It is composed of steel band
placed over the front hone OF the horse 8
nose. and to this appliance the reins
are attached. The inventor claims for
this substitute for the bit that it gives
complete control to the driver over the
horse without inIiicting the least dis
comfort or torture on the animal itself
1t has been tried with satisfactory re-
sults.-M Y. Sun. ..'...
DR.. Thomas Stevenson. in Guys
Hospital reports, asserts that water
does, under certain conditions, act
theoretically upon zinc and upon gal
vanized IRON" As zinc aud galvanized
iron tanks are commonly used for stor-
ing water, it is well to know DIR.
Stevenson's test for the presence of
zinc in that fluid. The clear water is
slightly calculated with hydrochloric
acid, ferrocyanide of potassium is then
added; if zinc be present q whitish
cloud will immediately form.
AT rec mt fire in Boston the In
surance Brigade used a new device for
the first time. 1t is called q water tun-
mel. and is used to carry water from
floors to the street. 1t is simply large
tunnel of conical shape, similar to that
used for pouring liquids into narrow
mouthed receptacles, and has q short
piece of hose attached, which is carried
out of window. The device is mouthed
on q tripod. and is placed directly I'M
der hole cut through the floor above.
The water on the floor is then forced in
the hole and carried through the hose
into the street, instead of being driven
down the stairway, as has before been
the case.-BostOn Post. .... q ...r