Mountain Home bulletin. (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1888-1889, 1888-12-08
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.
~Tannin has been discovered as an

-~Tannin has been discovered as an
animal substance by NJ. Villo1. n
French chemist. who inds that co..
weevils contain about three per cent.
Of it.
The Germans have discovered that
the pollen of the plaino tree produces
influenza, exactly like what in this
country is called ''rose cold' and ebay
fever"
French physicians are reporting
great success with the prompt internal
use Of an antiseptics in eases oftyphoid
fever. After disinfection of the intes-
tines, according to this method. the
disease runs short course.
Paper is now manufactured from
seaweed, according to IA process re-
Gently invented in Japan. The article
made in this way is said to be so strong
as to be almost untearable, is suffi-
GENTLY transparent to admit of its being
used as window glass, and takes all
colors about equally well.
DR.. Zambaco OF Constantinople,
who has lived for several years among
the lepers OF the far East, says that he
has never met single instance OF conta-
| gion. although the malady is certainly
hereditary, the children Of lepers be-
coming leprous at the age OF ten, ff-
teen and twenty years generally.
The increasing application Of cleo
tricity in mining work is based on the
solid foundation Of economy attained.
The Aspen Mining and Smelling Com.
pany, which was one OF the first to put
electric motors underground for pump
ing. hosting and haulage, have effected
large saving in the cost OF their ore
through this means
J. Norman Lockyer, the English
astronomer, computes the total number
of stars of which some knowledge cal
be gained with the optical aid nov
available, at from 40, 600, 900 to 10000,
600. Only about 6,OO0 are visible t.
the naked eye-3,000 in the Northern
: hemisphere and 5000 in the Southern
After experiments on the relative
; merits of castor oil and of olive oil a
lubricants. the Italian Admiralty ha
ordered that the exposed parts OF tn
. ships machinery be fabricated exclu
; sively with castor oil, and that minera
oils be used for cylinder and simila
, fabrication.
) When the first electric telegraph
! was established, the speed OF transmits
sion was from four to five words
Ia OF mi
t in 1S49, the average rate for newspape
messages was seventeen words
| a minute; the present pace of the cleo
trio telegraph between London an
Dublin. where the Wheatstone instrr
: ment is employed, reaches four hun
> bred and sixty-three words. And thus
! what was regarded rs miraculous sixt
l years ago has multiplied II hundre
0 fold In half n century. Science.
: The art of tempering copper so {;
to give it hardness and fine cuttin
edge was known to the Egyptians
Greeks and Romans, but it is one of tn
g lost arts Scientific men have vainl
endenvorcd to redisdovcr it. 1t is po
: sible that tho Indians of Ecuador have
II as stated in the paragraph, accidental
! found out how to do this, but we wal
: more conclusive evidence than has "
o been furnished before We believe il
= 1t would DO OF some value to civiliz;
II ton IL the art were rodiscovered, bt
, would not have nearly the important
o it once had, since we have iron al
u steel now which do the work bette
o than the copper tools and weapon