The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-02-29
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

The wooden boxes that bring or
anges from Florida are manufactured
in Maine.
-Photographing on silk and linen is
now successfully practi.ed in London.
IN. Y. Herald.
Mobile. Ala, has Woman's In
dustrial Exchange, which is doing
very satisfactory business.-N o.
Times.
Litigation in Germany between Ed
ison and Swan on the fundamental
incandescent lamp patents, has been
decided in Edison's favor.
-Magnifying glasses are traced back
to the days of Confucius, 47S B. c. He
says: LAS we use a glass to examine
the forms of things, so we must study
antiquity 10 understand the present"
Extracting oil from skunks and
selling it to Troy On. " druggists is
growing industry among the FARMERS
in Was ilngton and henss.ier counties.
The druggists pay 81 quart tor she
article. 1t is said to be remedy for
croup.-1roy Times.
During the past three years 135 or
ganiy atoms with contrivaneeS for the
transmission of intelligence have been
incorporated in the State of New York,
under the telegraph companies act,
and the ctpital represented aggregates
$50, 0O0,0J0.-AJGny journal.
e. w. Fellows, of Cleveland, after
experimenting for two years, has sue
ceeded in inventing a way to take in
Simultaneous and absolutely permanent
photographs upon any substance hay
ing smooth surface by the action OF
electricity. The expense is less than
one cent for each picture.
Leader.
Among the new applications of cot
ton is its use, in part, in the construc-
ton of houses, the material employed
for the purpose being the refuse, which.
when ground up with abO t an equa,
amount of straw and asbestos, is con-
verified into paste, and this is formed
into large slabs or bricks, which ac-
quire. it is said, the hardness of stone,
and furnish really valuable building
stock.-Cacago Herald.
Frank Cosby, of Boston. has pat
ent ele tic tallying machine for ballot
boxes. He wants congress to use it
By it a yea.or nay vote can. he claims.
be taken in a minute and half. There
are to be on each members desk two
buttons, one marked yea and the othei
nav; by electric wires these are to re in
connection wi. h the clerks desk. A
touch of the button causes the name Of
the man touching it to be printed on
If Rncfn11
In Pittsburgh. Pa. ma hine has
been invented to manufacture hob nails.
hitherto done by hand. and factory
will shortly be esi abli>hed there. The
machine, it is claimed, is capable o.
doing the work of hundred men. As
thousands are now engaged in the man.
ufacture of hob nails by hand the inven-
ton will result in throwing out of EN-
ployment a large number OF mer
throughout the country. Each ma
chine is operated by three men.-Pt,s-
burJh Po,t.
A Leipsic journal gives a method
which, it asserts, will prevent lamp
chimneys from crack ne. The treat,
ment will not only render lamp-ch:m-
news, tumblers. and Ike articles more
durable. but may be app led with adj.
vantage to crockery. stoneware, porce-
lain, etc The chimneys, tumblers,
etc.. are put into pot filled with cold
water, to which some common table
salt has been added; the Water is well
boiled over i fire and then allowed &c
cool slowly. When the articles are
taken out and washed they will be
found to resist, afterward, any sudden
changes of temperature.