Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-09-12
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

oVAhNtE AND INDUSTRY.
Germany and Russia are both ,,,sh.
TX forward experiments in living mo.
'n1hes Tor use in war.
"a lew process in shot maxine sv;l,
w. away with the tall towers. A STRONG
faur OF cir is forced on the lead as i
1alls into the water.
Az M oaa factory in indianapolis makes
s .,ooo'vVo butter dishes and 10000
s%oep.ladders a year, besides other things
wv numerous to mention.
"A Cleveland concern has gone, ia
"otk on a new mouthpiece for the tele.
Hnone oy which q whisper can be dis.
slhcCly transmitted and perfect secrecy
rom bystanders thus secured.-Cleus.
land Herald.
-lhe petrified forests of Arizon.
nave been purchased by a companS
who are making the wood into tables,
sa;d oener ornamental articles. 1t is
sald to be driving onyx from the mar.
AeI: oelng susceptible of a much highe,
Pollsh and more durable.-Mlcago
.lne making of wood flour, which
Is similar to wood pulp, is the chief in.
austry in the Catskill Mountains, New
ierk, and it bids fair to demoralize tho
lorests. 1t was first manufactured in
the Catskiils about nine years ago, and
now over twenty mills are in full blast
--44lbany Journal.
"A German engineer has obtained
letters patent on a device for buildiao
mime shafts and bridge piers upon
q%uicksands. His method, SAYS a cor.
respondent, is to introduce pipes into
the quicksand and pump through them
a freezing mixture by which the entire
mass of quicksand is frozen solid, when
it may be worked through with no
more difficulty than a stratum of rock.
Tho business of making wooden
houses in the United States for custom
sale is stimulated by a 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 city of Plata, the new capital of
the province Of Buenos Ayres.--CAi.
cago Times. 4
Edison, the inventor, has made the
following prediction: LAS to the changes
which will be effected by electricity
within fifty years in the city of New
York, l would say that 1 believe cleo.
tricity will propel the cars of the street
and elevated roads, light the city with.
in and without its buildings, furnish
power for oil purposes, work telephones
and burglar alarms, deliver the opera,
convey parcels, detect and signal fires,
| operate fire engines, ano possibly dis.
| place animal locomotion for vehicles
N. y. San.
DIR. Gamgie, q physician of Biz.
mingham, England, is the inventor Of
I'd artificial sponge which has excited
q good deal Of interest among the Paris
surgeons. 1t is made OF cotton, rem
dered absorbent and treated with anti
septics. A sponge the size of a walnut
will absorb water until it reaches the
| dimensions of q cricket ball. One Of
its most important advantages is cheap.
ness; this quality makes 1t Unnecessary
to use it more than once so tina,
''sponge Infection becomes An easily
obviated evil.
"A committee of scientific gentlemen
in Ohio has issued an appeal to person.
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
Bureau. All articles found in such ex.
ploration, they say, will be deposited
in the museum of the Smithsonian In.
stitution, and become the property OF
the United States, and be accessible
without expense to all students of Amer
lean ethnology. Fac-Simile casts of all
specially interesting finds will be de-
posted in some central museum in
Ohio.