Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-08-13
MECHANICAL

hrst soaking it in water until !
soft, and then melting If W.. !.
heat in linseed oil. With
A DEVICE has been i~nventoa,.
electricity is made to 'ea b
weights indicated upon SCALE tseo
yards, the application beina o
designed for the WEIGHING ESP
cars while in motion. II VI
with this device properly anna 1aS
scales, IN accurate account ran
OF the weight of every car pasa;
them, even at full speed. ~
The world uses 10000 bar,o,.
troleum per day. America hea
on hand to supply the daas!
three years. The quantity ~
used and exported by various al ~
is as follows: German ,o,. ~
000,O0O gallons; England. ~
gallons; Belgium, 43, ZOO, OOO
France, $4,000, 900 gallons: r.
dies, 1000, 600 gallons; Ho11.a
600, 600 gallons; Italy, is, 0Oo az
Ions; Austria, 1S, ZOO, 900 gallon
dia, 17,0O0,0 600 gallons; Spain
600 gallons.
10 SKETCH your name on stoo,
proceed as follows: Clean thor1
of grease, and then spread a thin
ing of beeswax or paraffine .
place where the name is to ho
must be as thin as possible,
with o sharp needle point.
through the wax to the steel
this over with a mixture of nitr;
muriatic acid, in the proportion
to one respectively, and, when h
cease to rise, this work is done.
in strong soda water.
The purpose of ventilating cell
to make them cool and dry. md
often ventilated so as to be warm
damp. This is done when the 81
mitted to them from without is
erably warmer than the air
them. Coming into the cooler
this air, while it raises the tempej
of the cellar air, itself is cooled
deposits its moisture, which SOD
comes evident as visible or nail
dampness. Therefore all the I'd
ton of cellars in warm weather sl
be done at night, and the cellar sl
be kept closed between sunrise
sunset.
The four feet of an ordinary y
make a pint of neat's-foot oil.
bone of any animal is thrown
Many cattle shin-bones are shipp
England for the making of knife
dies, where they bring $40 per
The thigh bones are the most valu
being worth $SOper ton for cuttin:
toothbrush handles. The fore-legi
are worth $50 per ton, and are
into collar buttons, parasol-handle
jewelry, though sleeps legs ar
staple parasol handles. The wa
which the bones are boiled is rel
to glue, and the dust which comes
saving the bones is fed to cattle
poultry.-Scientifc american.
AT a recent meeting of the Was
ington Monument Society, Col.
made some very interesting slater
concerning the habits of the /
ment, for it appears that the gre1
lisk is q moving, if not o living, ,
and that it has a regular swaying
ton when the sur is shining up
On every bright day the apex .
monument moves at least one
westward in the morning when
suns rays first fall upon it, and
ward again in the afternoon wheI
sun reaches the western side.
heat of the suns rays has an exps
effect upon the masonry, and the
met that is suspended in the inter
the monument registers this move
from day to day.
The question of fuel for steame
the substitution Of petroleum for
can easily be solved. The draw
to petroleum is it's liquid nature
consequent danger of listing. I
troleum be turned from a liquid
frozen bricks of any desired size
objection disappears. 1t can the
packed as safely as coal, even mo-
Small tanks heated by steam ca
provided to feed the furnace bur
and into these tanks may also run
from the bunkers to carry ava
leakage from thawing. In this nj
frozen petroleum can be carried
steamer that will furnish conside
more fuel for the space occupied
the same bulk of coal. The co
petroleum in this form would also
great saving on the present fuel.
The three substances which ent
to the composition of an electric
are glass, platinum wire, and ba
or paper. Glass bulbs r readll
pared by the usual methods OF
blowing, but the preparation 0
DoAAOOO 40 ~ OOA1CuUC DACCC VI w.
the best lamps, the little horsesh
made of bamboo, and this materlf
proved its superiority to its rlva
per, in several ways. The ba
comes from Japan in bundles OF s
foot in length. Japanese bamboo
finer quality than the Chinese.
first split up into little square S
Girls round these off by running
through dies, until they look like
brown straws. These are put IN
bles with graphite, and submitted
white heat for several hours
carbonizes them thoroughly.
IT is we'll known what an int
the quality of the iron in the field
nets has upon the ultimate outpu
dynamo, and q case in point IS
toned by Mr.. Gisbert Kapp, sn'
how impossible it is to foretell =
ately the performance Of a dynah
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