The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-08-22
sCIENCE AND INDusTK1.

-.Pomegranates are being cultivated
II the South. They yield 500 per
acre.
"A company has been formed in
New England for the purpose ct con-
vcrting water into fuel.-BoStos Post.
During the first six months of the
current year the sum of S59, %, 100
has been inves ell in new industries in.
The South-Caea3o Times.
The sawdust and refuse of the saw
mill is now made to yield fourteen
gallons OF turpen.lne. three to four
gallons of resin, and a quantity of tar
per cord.-St. Louis Pos. ss7
IA Hazelhurst (Nliss.) man has
started new industry. He ships toals
to Louisville florists. who use them to.
rid their plants OF insects, which, it is.
ID, they do very eflectually.
Three years ago the Buffalo author
tiles offered $4,000 for some invention
that would utili the current of the
Niagara River for power at their wafer
works: and William II. Britton. of that
city, has the model of horizontal tur-
bine wheel which he thinks will do it,
Buy alo cypress.
Blasting paper is recent Austrian
invention. 1t is described as being un-
sized or ordinary blotting paper coated
with mixture of prussiate of potash
OF charcoal, saltpeter, potassium,
chlorate and white starch On its
being dried it is cut into strips. which
are rolled into cartridges. '@
The bog peat of Mexico is now he
ing used on considerable scale q fuel
for locomotives. stationary engines.
smelling purposes, smiths fires anC
household use. The peat is mixed with
a proper proportion of bitumen. and is
said not only to burn freely. and with
out smoke in much quantity, but to
give higher dynamic equivalent OF
heat than the same amount of wood
Chicago Times.
An Atlanta (Ga.) publisher has in
vented new method of ,photo-litho-
graphing by which it is claimed per-
feet cop es of the finest steel engravlngs
may be taken on the lithographics stone,
ready for printing, in less than five m n
utes time. The process. it is sand. is
very simple, and can be performed BY a
boy as well as an expert. BY means of
it, too, the inventor claims that he can
make zinc and o.her metal printing
plates. The original picture, it is said,
l. not injured by the prOcess.-Chicago
He aid.
The growing vegetable world
brcathes carbonic acid gas through its
leaves, using the carbon to build up its
structures, setting oxygen free for the
use of the animal world, which inter
change is constantly going on. The
carbon so appropriated is found in the
ash of plants after combustion. COM
bined with lipe or some other mineral,
but the larger proportion is again
driven off during the combustion, in
which progress it is again united to-
oxygen in the shape of carbonIc acid
gas. N. l.. Times. .a
If. saws NJ. G.. Montigny in LEiec-
tricite. we cast rapid glance o er the
progress that has been made in cleo
tricity in less than half century. we
shall see that after presenting itself
suddenly under an entirely new form in
the Volta pile, after manifest ;ng its sur
prising action upon magnets and cur
rents at moment when the science of
the phenomena engendered by the pi g
seemed to some to be exhausted, cleo
tric.ty is agan presenting itself under
new light in Induction appara-u us
wherein it is excited by the most sur
prising means. max