The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-09-06
POPULAR SCIENCE.

Salt Lake, Utah, has lost niuc per
cent. Of its sadness in the last five
years.
Fire clay is composed mainly Of alu-
nina CLAY, silicic acid (combined), and
quartz sand.
An electric system of signaling trains
is to be adopted on the Union Pacific and
c. B. & Q. lines.
One of the growing industries Of San
Diego County, Cal, is the manufacture
of asbestos goods.
Edison's photograph IS ''the lion of
the hour in French scientific circles.
Many curious experiments arc being made
with it.
Iron shafts have been known to Go
duty for a quarter of century, doing
good service long after the assure began
to yield.
The new second-class English cruisers
are 10 be either of steel alone or steel
sheathed with wood and coppered, aad
their engines are to deyelop 5000 horse
power.
Major Powell states that material
has been gathered showing seventy
three different stocks of languages and
500 dialects among the Indians of North
America.
A project is being considered for add
ing 25O, 900 acres to the irrigated area
in Egypt, the water being taken from
point so high up on the Nile that the
oonaIa shall noyqr rim dry
The large steam hammers in use in
England and on the continent for making
the forgings required for artillery and
machinery are to be quite generally re-
placed by hydraulic presses.
Two steel blocks, one weighing $780,
eco and the other 170,0 00 pounds, 10
form a part Of the armament Of an Italian
iron-clad, were recently shipped from the
Gruson Foundry at Magdeburg.
The new vegetable, "Cougalou, =" in
troduced into France by NJ. Paillieux, is
a sort of turnip with the form of radish
and IS covered with . skin Of bright red
hue. The favor Is similar to that Of
turnip.
Leprosy Is increasing in Russia During
the last ten years forty-nine patients were
treated in the St. Petersburg hospitals,
half Of whom were natives Of the city.
The Baltic provinces suffer most from
the disease.
A New York chemist declares that
every remedy for tobacco smoking and
chewing and the opium habit contains
morphine and opium in dangerous quanti-
ties, and that those who sell them ought
to be prosecuted.
The friends of the new smokeless
powder claim that if this summers ex-
periments prove successful it will be
adopted by all military powers for use
with all classes Ct guns for which fixed
ammunition is made.
The carcass lately introduced by a
Russian naval officer, when fired with
percussion fuse against solid target,
bursts, deluging everything in the neigh
borhood with a liquid which at once
bursts into flame and cannot be extin-
guished by means OF water.
The taste for ice water is acquired
and its use Is purely habit as Is that Of
alcohol or tobacco Give little child
ice water and it viii make a wry face and
probably cry; induce an Indian in his
aboriginal state to drink glass and he
viii sputter for five minutes. To the I'M
accustomed drinker it gives actual pain
and brings to all undoubted injury.
a device has been introduced to pre-
vent the infaming of cotton bales. It
consists of wrapping the bales in wire
gauze in place of the customary jute
bagging. It Is question whether this
viii work as when cotton becomes in
famed by storing in the hold Of 4 vessel
it viii ultimately burn the gauze away, it
. suggested that a tireprooiing used on
ate would be much better, such as sf1T-
cate of soda to render the material non
inhammable.