Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-11-03
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

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! 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 a remedy for whoopiug cough.
A gas stove has been invented to rival
the bookcase folding bed. 1t is con-
cealed IN handsome colonial clock
case.
Lithium is the lightest metal known
and is worth $3.50 per ounce. Gallium
is the costiest metal known and is
worth 1880 per ounce.
1t 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 ac-
compished by electricity. A French
electrician thinks he will soon be able
to produce thunder storm at will.
A correspondent of the Liverpool
Msrcrry says that he heard some cornet
playing from a photograph which had
been repeated more than a thousand
times, and all the notes we're 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 rule makes very handy bevel
or square, in which legs may be adjust
ably clamped in any desired position.
The tax collectors receipts of the
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pieces of broken crockery. Some of
them, from the British museum colIec
ton, have been translated, and show
the tax in Egypt under the early
Caesars.
A new chain wrench for plumbers isl
especially adapted for use in connecticut
with pipes, and is SO constructed tina
the pipe may be turned from right to left
or vice versa, without removing tn
wrench, while it permits of Eighteenth
the chain less than the length Of linB
The French in Cayenne are said b
hold in great dread the Lucilia hoa-
dnioordr, or man-eating fly. This il
sect lays its eggs in the mouth or no.
trils of sleeping. and especially n
drunken, individuals, and the hatchel-
out ta'Ore usually produce a horrible
death.
The Colt arms factory at Hartford,
Conn, will soon begin the manufacture
| of the 5000 navy revolvers for the
| United States Government. The new
piece is a ive-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 Sidney (OhioJ man. Jhd
invention is a horseshoeing rack. an
consists of pen, readily adiustgole p
the size of any animal, and ia ThicEa
horse can be securely faste-ed tho ,1ek
being made SO that u CAP be readily
taken down and m~red oufot the way'I
French chSmists now obtain from thd
essence ri birch bark, b. rectitication
an essential oil which possesses amona
other proprieties that of being fatal I'll
insect life, and an electrically insuatint
tarry substance; and thee two producti
are so treated and combined with othd
substances as to producean anti-oxidis
ing compound and an insulating materii
capable of the same applications
ebonite.
by means of recent improvement
made in the manufacture OF rifles
many as 100 barrescan now be rolledp
an hour by one machine. They
Strengthened cold and bored with corr
; spending speed. and even the rinints
done automatically, SO that one IN
tending six machines can turn out sly
or seventy barrels per day. WithAe
old rifiing machine twenty barrels hs
about the limit Of days work, but pc
improved machines attendto everythg
after being once started, and, whenhe
riding is completed, ring bell tohli
the attention OF the workman. |,
The weather vane in the shapel -
large grasshoppcr, which adorns F4g
Hall ia Boston, is said to have zen
placed there by the owner Of tnehn,
who waq also wholesale grocerf
sgn Of his occupation. The gfasshpc,
! was the sgn Of the Wholesale orEls
/ Association Of 3oyton. Mt FaneuEas
prominent member Of this assOcion'