The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-04-07
CURIOUS, USEFUL AND ScIEN
TIFIC.

DR.. Pesyra, of the University OF Michigan,
demonstrates that water puriies itself by
freezing to the extent of SO per cent.
Charles Godshaw, of Louisville. has invented
a new bottle for beer, champagne, and other
effervescent liquors, which he claims does
away with extra fastening for the cork. The
hole for the cork is in the side of the neck of
the bottle, and there is no opening at the
top. The harder the gas pushes the faster
the cork STAYS SAYS the inventor.
II is found that when paraffine is Thoroughly
mixed with liRseed oil, cast into small
blocks, and cooled, ii may be used to make
any fabric, as cloth-felt, and leather, water
proof, by rubbing it with such block, and
ironing afterward to equaliZe the distribu-
tiOn Of the material in the pores. If too
much is not put on, the material may be
made 20 be only imperviOus to water, but
not 20 air, the small greasy pores repelling
water, but not air,
1t is announced that Messrs. Appert, of
Clichy, France, have discovered process
that will make glass blowing by the mouth
unnecessary. Many attempts have been made
TO get rid OF this painful process in the oper-
atoms OF glsss making, but to this day in ev-
cry bottle house, may be seen pale-faced men
with their cheeks hanging limp in folds, the
result OF years of glass blowing by the mouth.
Cases have been known in which mems
cheeks have been worn so thin that they
have actually cracked, and it is common
sight in bottle house TO see blowers at work
with their thin cheeks pulled out like the
fingers of glove.
DR.. John Brooks, who died recently in
Ssmos No., left the following directions
concerning his burial: "Place me in square
oak box, dressed plain inside and out, with
out staining, varnish, or cover; no lining;
make pallet of my blankets in the bottom
of my box; no pillow; lay me on my right
side, with one hand under the side of my
face, the other hand folded on my breast
with my knees drawn up, as if | was sleep
ing. Dress me in plain white robe; socks,
but no shoes; cover me with white sheet
folded back from nay shoulders just as
would fold it in a natural sleep; my grave
to be walled With brick and bricked over the
top to keep out the rain"
correspondent of the Springfield Mass.
Republican says that in Wales, a suburb of
that city, there are eleven persons whose
united ages amount to $50 years; the young
est is eighty and the eldest is ninety-fve
One couple had been married sixty-four years
last Christmas. There are twenty-nine that
are over seventy and under eighty, whose
united ages are 2, II5, making an average of
seventy-five years Among these are three
couples that have celebrated their golden
weddings the past year. There have been
buried in the last twenty-five years forty
seven persons between the ages OF eighty
ana nlnety-SlX, whose united ages were 4, U2O
years, making an average of $50 years.
Two couples that have died in the last fifteen
months we're married ffty-six and fifty-nine
years.
By means Of new and ingenius little in
strument known as the hyalolyphotype, or
hot pen, drawings can be made on glass or
CLASSY substances with a waxY composition,
which is solid and somewhat hard at an or
binary temperatures. The pen is so contrived
IT, = - fo1 off L.
electric current, and the waxy material flows
easily from the heated pen, setting so quickly
on the glass that eross-hatching can be done
more rapidly than with ordinary pen and
ink, without risk OF blocking up the angles;
corrections, too, can be made with the great
est ease by means of penknife, which leaves
the surface afterward intact. After the
drawing has been made, the plate is etched
by Euoric acid, and when complete it can be
either electrotyped, stereotyped, used direct
or applied to any purpose for which en-
grayed surfaces are required.