The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1884-03-06
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.


has been offered 81 1909 for a half in
terest in his patent hair-pin.-M T..
Sun.
"A harnoss-maker of Templeton,
Mass, who is ninety-three years old,
made ten harnesses last year, doing the
stitching by hand Boston Pos.
A silk farm has been established in
Powhattan County, Va by a number
of French families. Another oae will
soon be established in North Carolina.
-FHUa Iciphta Press.
Ventilated bed clothes is one of the
latest inventions of English genius.
They are perforated and allow the va
por from the body to escape.-N y.
Times.
Brass pins were made by hand
many centuries ago. A Massachusetts
man invented those with solid head,
hut their first manufacture was in Eng
land, in 1888. .-BoStOn Herlld.
The term 'telephrage" has been
applied by Irof Fleeming Jenkin to
the transmi s on of vehicles by cleo
tricity to distance Independent of any
control exe-c's sed from the vehicle. "
An experimental telephrage line has
been constructed in England.
Scientists now boldly declare that
this earth was peopled fifty million
yeas before Adam was born. We are
not prepared to dispute this assertion
in the least. We have always wondered
how mankind could learn so much dew
iltry in only six thousand years. s.-Low-
ell citizen.
People ont West who desire to raise
silkworms need not wait to set out null
erry trees. The leaves of the csage
orange are found to be just as goot for
s,lkwOrm food as those of the mul-
berry, anl there are many miles OF
Csage hedge ready for use distributed
over the wc>t.-N Y. Examiner.
The manufacture OF rope from as
bestos is kelly to become an industry
of considerable import an in England,
the strength of the article being esti-
mated at al out one fourth that of ordi-
nary hemp rope of the same diameter
Rope of tn $ mat rial of one and a
half inches in diameter is stated to have
breaking strain of one ton, and twenty
feet of it are calculated to represent
weight of thirteen and one-'ourth
pounds.
M. Ramon de Luna brought before
the French Academy of Science a
month ago treatise on "Chole' a from
the standpoint of Chemistry" His
view after long attention to physiologi
cal stud es, is that this dread disease is
exclusively propagated through the res
piratory organs, AMI his chemical in
quiries convince him that the only safe
treatment is to cause the patient to in
hale with prudence hypc.zotic vapor
mixed with air.
Mr.. Shields, by laying pipes parforat
ed at intervals of some hundred yards
out of Fclkstone harbor, and forcing
out, the other day, his invention for
calming stormy water and making easy
the entrance for vessels in distress. As
he oil for the purpose can be procured
for s X pence ga Ion, and as fifteen or
twenty gallons completely calmed the
entrance to Folkstone in a very stiff
brce e, it is manifest how easy of appi-
ance and cheap the plan is.
A Geneva d n ist has invented a
new and ingenious proce of tooth
drawing. A square of India rubber,
pierced with central hole, is pushed
over the tooth till the upper Part of
the root is reached. The India rubber
gradually contracts, pulls on tie root,
and the offending tooth is finally enuc-
leated, without ca lsing the patient any
rain whatever. Four or five da, s are
required to complete the operation.
Very little bleeding and a slight swell
ling o; the gum are the only inconve-
nience experienced.