Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-03-21
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

IAN inventorof Sandy Creek, N. ",
b.s been offered $1,000 for a half IN
tarest in his patent hair-pin.-M T.,
Sun. n
"A harness-maker of Templeton',
Mass, who is ninety-three years DID,.
m.ds ten harnesses last year, doing the
atitching by hand.-Boston Pos.
"A silk farm has been established IN
powhattan County, Va, by a number.
of French families. Another one will,
soon he established in North Carolina.
Philadelphia Press.
Ventilated bed clothes is one of the
latest inventions OF English genius.
Thev are perforated and allow the va
por from the body to escape.-N 4.
Times.
many centuries ago. A Massachusetts
man invented those with a solid head,
but their first manufacture was in Eng
land. in 1S33.-Boston He7ul0.
The term "telephrage" has been
applied by Prof. Fleeming Jenkin to
.the Transmission of vehicles by cleo
tricity to a distance Independent OF any
control exercised from the vehicle"
An experimental telephrage line has
been constructed in England.
Scientists now boldly declare that
this earth was peopled fifty million
years 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.-Low-
Gu Citizen.
People out West who desire to raise
silkworms need not wait to set out null
berry trees. The leaves Of the Usage
orange are found to be Just as good for
silkworm food as those Of the null
berry, and there are many miles OF
Usage hedge ready for use distributed
over the west.-M. Y. Examiner.
The manufacture Of rope from as
bestos is likely to become an industry
of considerable importance in England,
the strength of the article being esti-
mated ut about one.fourth that OF ordi-
nary hemp rope of the same diameter.
Rope of this material of one and a
half inches in diameter is stated to have
q breaking strain Of one ton, and twenty
feet of it are calculated to represent
q weight Of thirteen and one.rourth
pounds.
M. Ramon de Luna brought before
the French Academy OF Science a
month ago a treatise on "Cholela from
the Standpoint OF Chemistry" His
view after long attention to physiologi-
cal studies, is that this dread disease is
exclusively propagated through the res
piratory organs, and his chemical in
qu;ries convince him that the only safe
treatment is to cause the patient to in
hale with prudence hyperzotic vapor
mixed with air.
MIR. Shields, by laying pipes perforat-
ed at intervals Of some hundred yards
out OF Fclkstone harbor, and forcing
oil through them, successfully carried
out, the other day, his invention for
calming stormy water and making easy
the entrance for vessels in distress. AS
the oil for the purpose can be procured
for six pence a gallon, and rs fifteen or
twenty gallons completely claimed the
entrance to Folkstone in a very stiff
breeze, it is manifest how easy of appli-
ance and cheap the plan is.
A Geneva d mist has invented a
new ana ingenious prOce s OF tooth
drawing. A square Of India rubber,
pierced with a 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 causing the patient any
pain whatever. Four or five DAYS are
required to complete the operation.
Very little bleeding and a slight swell
ling OF the gum are the only iuconve-
nience experienced.