Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-01-03
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.


"A stone dwelling at Phenixville,
Pa, weighing five hundred tons has
been moved 200 yards without injury.
"A new device has been patented in
London for generating electricity at so
small q cost that it will be cheaper than
gas.
A new kind of cloth is being made
in Lyons from the down of hens, ducks
and geese. Seven hundred and fifty
grains of feathers make one square
meter of light and very warm water
proof cloth, which can be dyed in all
shades.
The best use to which the electric
light could be put is a. a locomotive head
light. A successful experiment has been
made in Chicago, the electricity being
generated by a dynamo situated in
front of the cylinder and worked from
the cab. The light illumined the track
for third of a mile Chicago Inter-
Ocean.
Paper lumber is the newest inven-
ton. 1t is made of the pulp of wheat,
rye and oats straw and other vegetable
hbers. They are combined with chem
zeal ingredients, and produce an article
that is said to compare fsvorably with
the best wood. 1t is susceptible of the
finest polish and will take any tint or
color.-Boston Post.
In the course of a recent lecture i'm
Baltimore on the subject of food and
the markets in their relations to mu-
nicipal hygiene, DIR. John S. Billings
affirmed that fifty-three diphtheria cpl
denies, seven scarlet-fever epidemics
and twelve typhoid epidemics in Eng
land had been dire tly traced to the
milk supply. Sun.
The fuel employed has a great in
f1uence on the color and quality of
bricks. Some Goals contain foreign
substances, which produce gases unfa-
vorable to the development and fixing
OF the natural red color of the brick, as
we'll as to its quality. Sulphurous gases
are especially dangerous. They unite
with the free oxygen which is retained
in the bricks and form sulphat s which
not only spoil the color but destroy the
durability of the brick under atmos-
pheric changes. Another frequent result
is that a white crust forms on the out
side.-Philadelphia Press.
Dried apricots are likely to be
prominent article of export from Cali
fOrnia. Heretofore this fruit has been
put up almost entirely in tin cans. but.
in consequence of over-production, the
canning factories reduced the price paid
to the farmer to such a figure that he
was driven to experimenting with vari-
GUS processes of drying, and discovered
a method that leaves the fruit in a
delicious state. California fruit-growers
are now going largely into apricot dry
ing. but it is thought they never will
produce more than the markets of the
United States alone are prepared to con-
sume.-Saa Frdnci co Chronicle.
One of the latest novelties in lamp
SHADES is iced or cracked glass. which
was the invention of renchman
named Ray. The peculiar cracked ap-
pearance IS obtained by covering the
surface of the sheet of glass with thick
coat ng of some cOarse-grained fiux or
some more easily fus. BILE glass, and then
subjecting it to the action of strong
fire. As soon as the coating is fused
and the table red hot, it is withdrawn
and rapidly subjected to cooling
process, which at once separates the
layer of flux from the underlying sur
face and leaves behind the evidence of
its attachment to the same i'm irregular
outlines, scales, crystal forms, etc
N. Y. Time.