The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1886-09-10
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LII Nature claims that . Inachif
Of one horse power would keep twenty.
aeven million watches running.
Peach leaves pounded to = pulp, and
applied 10 bruiae or wound from d
rusty nail or simple cut, will give i'm.
mediate relief.
a railway J. 10 DO built up Mount
PiIatua, and future visitors TO that Al.
phine height will undergo few Of the
hardshipa that taxed their predecessors.
Tho line will start from Alpuach and
rise to an altitude of seven thousand
fses.
The origin Of the term "pig iron" Ii
thus explained by an ancient document
(l72sl recently brought before the Brit.
i.h i,an and Steal Ins.isute: "The
iirlt material alteration Il underroes Ii
In the furnace, wherein /. IL melted, be-
comea haid substance, and il let on.
ioto the CUTTERS made 10 sand, bearing
an important Resemblance to aow with
her pigs sucking, from whence /. bas the
name, pigs and sows.s
Corks may be rendered perfectly
ether tight by ooating them with a 20.
futiOn prepares from four paria Of gala.
tine, fitsy-swo parts Of boilidg water
and ono part Of ammonium bichromato
added 70 the Uttered gela.ine solution, J
and then expoaing them for few days
to the annlight. An apparatus may be
put together with unpreparsd sound
corks, and tho exposed portion of the
latter afterwards coated and exposed TO
sunlight.
The eye stone Is really the front door
Of sea snail found on the S3ulh Amer.
lean coast. Thousands ofpeople believe
that these bits Of shell are alive, from
the fact that they will move when placed
Ia vinegar. The philosophical sxplana.
ton Of he movement l. that the acid,
actiag upon the Substance of The sheIl
generates little bubbles Of gas, which
force II along through the flnid. When
yon pick out an eye ssOna be sure TO get
one with grooves on the fat aide. Those
that are smooth all over are taken from
tie crayisb, bnt are no good.
An enterprising G-rman 6rm il
bailding up large husiness Ia the
manufacture Of liquid oarhonic acid,
which, .hough 50 recently only scien-
tiiic curiosity. Is nov IN extensive de-
mapd fsr in.luatyial parrosss. Il !.
used Tor charging beer IN the Csxk, 10
the manufsoEurs II sslszsr-watsss aui
fsr Sra sasssg.sishsss. By isa sxpAn-
sion shs Krupps Of Essen suhjscs their
greet e.stings to the enormous l,rossnra
Of 700 atmospherss. u gas i also
expected to prove valuable fos inil.t-
ing balloons 70 raise snnken shirs, heavy
weights having been very quickly raised
from the sea bottom by ita all.
The Island Of Barbados il tie moat
deose:y populated part Of the earth.
This island, with 40 area ot 100, coo
acres, contains . population Of over
$4,000 souls, that il TO aay,an average
Of no less than 1854 people 10 each OF
It's l6G saaaFe.milss Of territory. The
Chinese province of Keanesu, which vas
- enc time ignorantIy imagined IN be
the most uoeomfor.ahly crowded district
under the sun, contsius but $50 noon
eyed cslealiala + the square mile, while
East Fsandsrs, IN Belgium, The most
thiekly populaled neigahorhood in Eu.
rope, can boast Of only 705 inhabitants
to the square mile. Coming nearer
home. Westchsa'sr County, n. Y, with
territory three times as large, has only
four-seyentbs As many people as are
packed upon this .hronged, ,map.risden
Caribbee Island. II the Empire stata
were IS tbicIxly settled as Barbadoes, It
would boast population Of &C, 100000
OF the l75,000 souls in this island nine
per cent are whites aud ninety-one per
cent arc blacks or mixed blood.