The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-09-12
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL
Galveston, Texas, is putting up
cotton mill to cost 100000. t
Scientists declare that the aver
age size of mems nacks il slecieas-
ing.
An electrical shoal water indica-
tor has just been devise by two
Mexicans.
Western manufactures end that
oil is cheap and ,enlirel, ss,islac.
ory substitute Tor hard fuel.
The temperature in the deepest
coal mines 10 the world is ninety
five degrees. They are in Frsnce.
Virginia CITY, New, has he big
gest eie .tric plant on earth. 1t has
six l20 horsepower generators, and
runs iEine and mill.
A rock o-eaker has Just been
made at Chicago which weighs for
ty-hve tons and which will break q
big rock at the rate of two to three
tons per :uinute.
The Union Pacific has just order
ed seyenty-six locomotives from
the Baldwin Locomotive Works at
Phiiadelphis, to be fnisLe,: SO soon
as possible.
The Vermont Microscopical As.
soclailon has announces that q
prize of $3.50, given by firm OF
chemists, will be paid to the fist
ulscovefer OF a new d sease germ
E A wealthy Spaniard, named Bue
} nos, has donated to the Government
she sum of 100000 for the purpose
or making EXPERIMENTS with new
= submarine boat.
4 Extensive works, to employ man,
hundreds of workingmt are to b;
started in Germany tor the manu-
u facture os paper from iron aud glas,
: by newly discovered process.
d} A ScCtchman, Who eyl1entl,
does not despise SIN II things claim
: that he has detected 10000 dus
: notes In the thousanel.h part OF
It cubic inch uf he air .. u room.
London's smoke, it is said, con
l. tair s each day 800 tons Of carlo
,r whose waste is estimated at ST.:
d 10000 yearly, while the damage t
buildings is set down at 1000, OO(
There are more paper mills run
.. ming more machines in the Unite
- States thnn any other country
the world. Germany has nearly a
II many, bnt o other country la
/ half as many.
The cotton industry IS bcginniu
to flourish in Greece and there al
several mills amo-g its classic isle
= In which both spinning and wea,
ie ing are Carried on. Ii is Gree
" cotton that is generally nsei
VI these mile.
&C. AS usually happens about til
" time of the vear, new substitu,
for white lea:d is said to have bee
discovered. Each year somebod
brings d new one upon the mark
y =, wish great display, hut thus /,
"' nothing has been discovered while
y satisfactorily fills the place Of viii
- lead.
10 The latest expensive within il
" dulge'i in by the King OF Wurtem
re burg is the photograph of the IN q
70 to ascer. ain whether it is. inhabi,e
. He has the negatives magniffed o,
ID hundred thousand fold, and b.
I'd thus far discovered nebulae cOvert
: with little dots. which he Eeliev,
We to be lunar people.
Is Aaoiher unbreakable subs ilu.
~ for glass, French invention, CO..
. sists in immersing wire in heatt
state in thin paste formed OF SO
. uble glass, gela'ine and g!yeeril
: or glucose, III proportions vaIyir
according TO the use for which tn
- material is designed. When near
dry, the sheets are dipped in col
;, contracted solution OF chrome aluI
! or bichromate of potash. Any d.
'o sired color.ng matter may be inco
&c porated with the gelatine, and CT
.. pal or other protective varnish Of
NC piled to the surface