The Savannah tribune. [volume] (Savannah [Ga.]) 1876-1960, 1888-11-17
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

A Berlin scientist says salt is con-
ducive to longevity.
Brass solder may be made by using
twelve parts of brass, six parts of zinc,
and one part of tin.
AntipyIine in doses of one to three
grains is recommended by Sonnenberger
as remedy for whooping cough.
A gas stove has been invented to rival
the bookcase folding bed. 1t is con-
cealed In a handsome colonial clock
case.
Lithium is the lightest metal known
and is worth $50 per ounce. Gallium
is the costliest metal known and is
worth $3.50 per ounce.
It is asserted that, under certain con-
ditions, the bark of the quilla tree of
Chill possesses cleansing properties supe-
rior to those of the best soap.
Wonders are being continually &C.
complished by electricity. A French
electrician thinks he will soon be able
to produce thunder storm at will.
A correspondent of the Liverpool
Msrcuqy says that he heard some cornet
playing from a photograph which had
been repeated more than a thousand
times, and all the notes were as clear and
distinct as ever
A new carpenter rule has been in
vented by Boston mechanic. 1t is of
novel construction, and aside from its
uses as a rule makes very handy bevel
or square, in which legs may be adj Just
ably elamped in any desired position.
The tax collectors receipts of the
ancient Egyptians were inscribed on
pieces of broken crockery. Some of
them, from the British museum collec.
ton, have been translated, and show
the tex in Egypt under the early
ca sars.
A new chain wrench for plumbers is
especially adapted for use in connection
with pipes, and is so constructed that
the pipe may be turned from right to left,
or vice versa without removing the
wrench, while it permits of tightening
the chain less than the length of a link.
The French in Cayenne are said to
hold in great dread the LaIcjli0 hOm-
jpi0orar, or man-eating fly. This in
sect lays its eggs in the mouth or nos
trils of sleeping, and especially of
drunken, individuals, and the hatched-
out larO1e usually produce a horrible
death.
The Colt arms factory at Hartford,
Conn, will soon begin the manufacture
of the 5000 navy revolyers for the
| United States overnment. The new
piece is ve-shooter of thirty eight
calibre. Besides being self cooking, all
the cartridges may be instantly removed
by pressure of the thumb
Blacksmiths, who sometimes get hold
of fractions horses, will appreciate the
device CT a Sidney (Ohio) man. The
invention is a horseshoeing rack. and
consists of pen, readily adjustable to
the size of any animal, and in which a
! horse can be securely fastened, the rack
being made so that it can be readily
taken down and moved out of the way.
French chemists now obtain from the
essence of birch bark, by recti6cation,
an essential oil which possesses among
other proprietes that of being fatal to
insect life, and an electrically insulating
tarry substances; and these two products
are so treated and combined with other
substances as to produce an anti-oxidiz-
ing compound and an insulating material
capable of the same applications as
ebonite.
BY means of recent Improvements
made in the manufacture of rifles as
many as 120 barrels can now be rolled in
an hour by one machine. They are
I &rc tr,s1,N al i
spending speed, and even the rifing is
done automatically, so that one man
tending six machines can turn out sixty
or seventy barrels per day. With the
old ritling machine twenty barrels was
about the limit of days work, but the
improved machines attend to everything
after being once started, and, when the
n1ing is completed, ring bell to call
the attention of the workman.