Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-10-07

; Bond, Clerk Of the superior court, is
small electric battery, SAYS the B .Itl NOR
: San II is used by the recorders for tn,
relief OF cisnD OF ths muscles CT tht
band wn'cn follows long continued snC
steady use OF the pen. Tie relief is in
stsn+aaeous, and clerks who formerly
we're compelled a. times to stop work FOL
several days on account OF swelling aud
contraction Of the muscles CT the hand
now take . f3I gentle shocks Of the elec
trlc current On the slightest spprosch OF
Stiffness. TI5y return TO work az once,
entirely relieved. and continue without
Inconvenience. Nearly every one of the
score OF CLERKS Receives benefit from the
electric current, snd the hsttery is re-
gsrded as al Indispensable fixture of the
Office.
FRECAUTION IN TELEeRAPaY.
With the Introduction of the telephone
the in!ercepsion OF Geographic signals
has been much simplited, as by erecting
q wire parallel 10 that through which the
sigasis are being transmitted, and con-
Meeting with & telephone, each signal gent
through the primary wire will be dis.
Giuctly heard in the telephone by Undue
ton. In order to prevent the success Of
such plan IN wartime, Herr Heinrich
! Discher proposes that ell war dispatches
shall be worked on the duplex system,
that is, thas whilst tie real oisp.tch Is
| being transmitted in one direction along
the wire, telegraphing shall also take
| place along the same wire in the oppo-
site direction, so that both dispatches
being simultaneously transmitted will
| simply give rise 70 meaningless sounds in
, the telephone.
BLEACHING FIBREs.
The boston Journal Of Commerce gives
the following as method OF bleaching
flores: The cotton, fax or other fiore In
Ia Guy stsge Of its manufacture is first
washed IL solution OF sulpha,e Ct soda
Tor three hours. The strength Of the So
lutiou corresponds to four ounces Of sui
pha:s OF soda to gslloo OF water. After
tue fore hes been steeped in water Ia
order 20 get rid Of cll trace OF the sui
phste, Il Is subj acssd TO the action Of
| solution otcaloride OF lime. of strength
Of one to tv0 ouGces per gallon CT water,
until It Is sufficiently blesched. The leIt
oath consists Of 8 weak solution O! sui
phuri; acid, eld all traces OF the chloride
OF lime are tiaally removed By bath OF
stksline sup aite.
GROUND GLASS.
A correspondent OF the Scientific Amer
icau gives the following process By which
he has made ground glass: "I first
bought Cents worth Of emery and two
PLATES OF glass the size required. Spoiled
|, negatives viii answer il :ney ere cleaned,
which can be done with strong so!u.
ton OF lye. plsced one Of the glasses
On fiat bosrd and sprirkled G small
quantity Of emery on it, which 1 wet
With wster. Placing the other glass on
thst ground them togetaeE, renewing the
water and emery whenever necessary. ID
about one hour 1 had two Of the finest
quslity Of ground glass, fully as good
good IS those l would hsve to pay IS
cents for (8xl0 s;ze)."
GLASS BLOWERS CRAAP.
A deformity of tue hand peculiar to
glass blowers is described By NJ. Poncet
IS "glsss blowers cramp." L. consists
in permanent and pronounced fsx!on of
the fingers OF the hand, which comes On
after shcrs practice In glass blowing,
and Increases progressively. The glass
blowers c.ll 1t main en- crochet or main
fermee (asnd IN hook, CT shuthand). Il
is supposed to be induced By the close
and continuous application OF the hand TO
the tube with Waica the workman man
ipuleteg his "metsl."
RELIEF IN PHTHsIs.
Lehman (Murchen, medizin, Wochen-
echr., July 10, 1889 relates the case Of
patient with asthma and insomnis, in
which, choral and morphine failing, IF
teen grains of sulphonal given st bed. lime
proved an excellent and agreeable hvpu-
otto. MARTA (Med. Neuigksiten, No.
29) recommends suipnonal fori the
night swests OF pathsia. Doses
of seven and 6 halt grains ST bedtime
prove servicaaole and d 1rd the patisn.
quiet and natural sleep OF four TO six
hours.
IMPROVED ANNEALING PROCESS.
An Improvement in the operation CT
annesiing wire Is announced 1T consists
il coiliag the wire upon hollow metallic
core or drum, imbedding the wire and
core in sand or Its equivalent, surround
Ing central open space, subjacting- the
whole TO heat win the wire thus I'M
oedded, and then allowing the whole to
cool before removing the wire from the
imhedding material. While cooling, the
vessel is dipped in!srmittently into cool
ing liquid.
TIE WATCH ANATOMIZED.
The average watch 10 composed Of us
different pieces, comprising upward of
2i00 separate snd distinct operations in
lis manufacture. The balance has $4,000 |
beats or vibrations per hour, IL, 969Os
in thirty dag, 157 $50, 600 in ore ysar;
it travels l 43-100 inches with esch vibra-
tion, Hhich is equsi to 81 miles in twenty
four hours, 1924 miles N thirty days, or
$685. miles in one yesr.
MORTAR BY THE BARREL.
Apfopos Of the proposition to make |
snd sell mortar by the barrel, as Is the |
practice in Germany, the Manufacturers
Gszstte says: A good strong mortar is |
made Of lime. little sand, water and
pieces Of brick ground to powder. All
the refuse from 8 building built of brick
should be ground up and Utilized in the
mortar, by machines made for that puf-
pose.