Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-08-21
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"a rev process in shot making will
dlo away with the tall towers.S a strong
current OF air is forced on the lead a. Il
falls into the water.
"A factory in indianapolis makes
40. oOO. 900 butter dishes and 10000
step-lad ders q year, besides other things
too numerous to mention.
A Cleveland concern. has gone to
work on new mouthpiece for the teIe-
rkone by which alwaisper can pc as.
tinctly transmitted and perfect secrecy,
from bystanders thus secured CteUe-
land Herald.
The petrifed forests Of Arizona
have been purchased by company
vino are making the wood into tables,
and other ornamental articles. II IS
said to be driving onyx from the mar
ket, being susceptible of a much higher
polish and more durable ca cGyo
HernL9.s s4sk ~ s~S
The making of wood flour, which
is similar to wood pulp, is the chief in.
dusty in the Ca,skill Mountains, New
y FORK, and it bids fair to demoralize the
forests. It was first manufactured IN
the Catskills about nine years ago. and
now over twenty mills are in full blast.
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"A German engineer has obtained
letters patent on a device for building
mine shafts and bridge piers upon
quiuksands. His method. says COR
respondent, is to introduce pipes into
the quicksand and pump through them
. freezing mixture by which the entire
mass of auicksand is frozen solid. when
it may be worked through with no
more difficulty than q stratum of rock.
The business of making wooden
houses in the United States for custom
sale is stimulated by brisk demand
for those products in Brazil Several
large shipments have been made TO Rio
Janeiro, and they were all sold soon
after their arrival. Fifteen hundred OF
them have already been erected in the
new ty of Plata. the new capital of
the province of Buenos Ayres.-C CHI
cGgo Times.
Edison, the inventor, has made the
following prediction: '.Asto the changes
which will be effected by electricity
within fifty years in the city OF New
York, l would say that believe cleo
tricity will .propel the cars of the street
and elevated roads, light the city with
in and without It's buildings, furnish
power for all purposes, work telephones
and burglar alarms, deliver the opera,
convey parcels, detect and signal tires.
opera,e rre engines, ano. possibly dis
pace animal locom0tion for vehicles
N. Y. Sun.
DIR. Gamgie; physician Of Biz
m:ngham, England, is the inventor of
an artificial sponge which Las excited
a good deal Of interest among the Paris
surgeons. It is made, of cotton, rem
dered absorbent and treated with anti
septics A sponge the size OF . walnut
will alb orb water until it reaches the
dimensions of cricket ball. One Of
its most important advantagesis cheap
ness; this quality makes, ii Unnecessary,
to use it more than once. SO that
..sponge Infection becomes an easily
obviated evil.
a committee of SC entiic gentlenaen
in Ohio has issued an appeal to- persons
in that State having knowledge OF pre-
historic earthworks,. Notifications,
mounds or burial places in their neigh
borhoods, to send Information to them,
that the places may be visited and ex-
plored by employees of the chronological
Iureau. All articles found in such ex-
ploration, they say, will be deposited
in the museum of the Smithsonian In
stitution,s and he ONE the property of
the United States, and. be a. eessible
without expense to all students of Amer
Jean ethnnlogy. Fac-Simile casts of all
specially interesting finds will be de-
posted in some CENTRAL Museum in
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