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 the
| solid part of smoke by electrical means
| and return il to the fire for consumption.
Amalgams present many peculiarities.
] Thus iron, antimony, sodium, silver and
} gold, will dissolve in mercury; but IL
/ anthony amalgam be mixed with
sodium amalgam, the antimony is thrown
/ out--iron also.
DR.. Kost's explorations Of the Ichetuc.
knee River in Florida have brought to
| light the remains of another mastodon.
! The bones were discovered near the
spot at which he had previously dug up
the remains Of three other species of
prehistoric animals-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 n 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 S,400 feet in lum-
bor, 200, 900 in shingles, and was worth
$500.
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Germans are now able to extract 1l.31
per cent of beet sugar and 0.65 per cent.
of molasses, or a 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
aud large export trade.
1t is announced that paper bottles are
to be manufactured on 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 conductor, fluids stored in
air-tight paper bot les will Withstand d
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
ful 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
piled with motor to operate it directly
il would fill the hearts of those interested
in it 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 a 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 ire. at the rivers
moutS in re ord of the event There has
it 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 a Swedish
Colony on the Congo, came upon Senor
Cams pillar. Just as it had been left, ex-
cept for cracking and discoloration.
| Dmjng 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 dc truction, though there
was not wall standing on any side of il
when the fire was flushed. The pumps
were al>o running, and kept the boiler
supplied, so there could be no explosion.
1t was peculiar spectacle to see the en-
gine driving away at slashing speed in
/ the midst of the flames, but the motion
somehow saved it from fire All the rest
Of the machinery was a total loss.