The Russellville Democrat., 1884-02-21

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General Mcdowell heads Synui-
ate vino has bought the rolling-niH at
tso.tn us. where they are to work .
rascnt by which they make pig-iron in
10 mack bar without the expensive pro-
cess u pudding. Toledo fO.J Blade.
Paper is now made in Sweden from
the tleached and blanched remains OF
MOSES that lived centuries ago and
now found in enormous quantities. The
paper is turned out in all degrees OF ex-
cellence, from tissue 10 sheets three
foulths of an inch thick.
---Messrs. A. q w. H. Bond, of Shell
burn, VT, are said to be the largest
producers of Seeding potatoes in this
country. They are experimenting with
about thousand new varieties. Their
experience is that many are very prom
ising at first, but that they develop bad
characters after few years. Boston
Transcript.
An Ingenious English manufacturer
has by simple and workable inven-
ton Of a coiIed soring succeeded in dis
pensing with the need of driving sew
ing machines by hand or foot. A few
turns of handle winds up sufficient
power to keep machine going at full
speed for over an hour. 1t is com
plctely under control as to the rate Of
stitching and stopping, and can be APP
piled to any existing machine at mod
crate cost.
Il. is said that glass is gradually be-
ginning to take the place of wood and
iron in the construction OF bridges in
England The inventor makes blocks
of glass, which be hardcns by a special
process. In solidity it is said to leave
nothing to be desired. The experiments
already made have given surprising re-
suits, and the cost is below that OF
bridges of wood or IRON. Moreover,
the glass can not be injured by insects,
like wood. nor rusted like iron.
be women's department in the
Boston fair created surprise among
those who think that women can not
invent. Some of the contrivances were
ingenious. A California woman de-
vised table bedstead. There were .
double piano stool, bride rein, an inn
proved chimney, birch-bark life-pre-
server. y ventilating screen, -life-size
doll babies, carpet-strctchers, floor
clinging dust-pans, kidney cures, and
stove hampers, a photograph album, q
ran greascr, 4 lock against burglars,
and an autumn leaf-catcher for cisterns
--Bostoa Herald.
The torpedo, which has done good
service in the oil wells, may now be
used to facilitate the removal of great
accumulations of snow The invention
is called Gunther's Torpedo Snow Plow.
1t consists of apparatus TO be applied to
locomotives, by means of which. when
the locomotive is pushed into a snow
bank, torpedo is exploded against a
firing block. SO that snow-bank will
be shattered. The engineer of the loco
motive has complete control of the
firing, and, by successive explosions,
may advance through the taickest
drifts. - Pittsburgh Post.
MIR. Russell, Of the United States
Geological Survey, who has spent the
season in the California mountains near
Mono Lake, says that the lava there is
the result of recent volcanic outbursts.
His studies on the old beaches lead him
to the conviction that there have been
two ice ages over the world, and that
the second, dating back to the advent
of man on the earth was the most Sc
we're and most protracted He adds
that the signs of glaciers are as fresh
as though left Yesterday. He has found
living glaciers in tho Sierras back to
Mono Lake, not far from the Yosemite
Valley. They are about mile long
aad many feet deep. - CHICAGO Times.