The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-02-15
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

An English engineer has q process By
which he thinks he can condense tn,
solid part of smoke by electrical means,
and return il TO the lire for consumption.
Amalgams present many peculiarities.
Thus iron, antimony, sodium, silver and
gold, will dissolve in mercury; but IL
antimony amalgam be mixed with
sodium amalgam, the antimony is thrown
out-iron also.
DIR, Kost's explorations Of the Ichetuc.
knee River in Florida have brought to
light the remains of another masiodon.
The bones were discovered near the
spot at which he had previously dug up
the remains of three other species Of
prehistoric animas-the megatherium,
mylodon and paleotherium.
One of the largest and most valuable
trees in the South was recently cut in
Woodruff Comfy, Ark. 1t was a cypress,
and made log nine feet four inches in
diameter at the butt, seven feet in
diameter at the top and forty-six feet
long. 1t measured 1S.400 feet in lum-
bcr, 200, 600 in shingles, aud was worth
$500.
BY means of improved appliances the
Germans are now able TO extract 11.31
per cent. Of beet sugar and Q. 65 per cent.
of molasses, or total of II. 96 pounds
per 100 pounds of beets. The cost of
this sugar is only two cents per pound.
The sugar is produced in enormous
quantities, sufficient for the home supply
and large export trade.
1t is announced that paper bottles are
to be manufactured on a very extensive
scale; their weight is less than those of
glass or stone ware, and they are less
liable to breakage. Paper being also an
excellent non-condnctor, fluids stored in
air-tight paper bot les will withstand a
more intense degree of heat or cold than
when put in ordinary bottles.
Saccharine, the product from tar,
which is said to be three hundred times
sweeler than sugar, has been of wonder
tul benefit TO the rown Prince of Ger
many 1t is said to have great curative
qualities for diabetic persons and some
forms of gout. In cases of obesity and
the manifold complications where Or
dinary sugar food is objectionable
saccharine is invaluable.
A flying machine invented by two New
York electricians is to be exhibited at
the Paris exposition. AS no storage sys-
TEN or primary battery has yet been de-
viSed light enough to be carried by the
machine itself the latter must be operated
from dynamo by which it is to be con.
nected by wires. If it could only be sup
pied with motor to operate it directly
1t would fill the hearts of those interested
In 1t with Joy. Another machine which
has its local habitation in this city has
been in the same fix for the past ten or
twelve years.
In the year 1884 Portuguese traveller,
Don Deigo Cam, was the first of his
nation to reach the rushing waters of the
Congo. He erected there and then a
marble column, or pa lrO, at the rivers
mouts in re ord of the event There has
1t stood undisturbed and undiscovered
all these decades, until word has come
that DIR. SchWer.n, the Swedish agent of
the Scandinavian Government, sent to
examine the location for Swedish
colony on the Congo, came upon Senor
Cams pillar, Just as it had been left, ex-
cept for cracking and discoloration.
Duing the burning of mill at Carl
ton, Mich, recently, according to the
American Nj Ter, the big eng ne which
drove the machinery continued to run
all through the blaze, and by that means
was saved from de traction, though there |
was not wall standing on any side of it
when the fire was flushed. The pumps /
we're al,o running, and kept the boiler
so there could be no explosion.
i was peculiar spectacle to see the en-
zine driving away at a slashing speed in
he midst of the flames, but the motion .
saved it from fire. All the rest
If the machinery was total loss.