The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1889-12-07
ALL SORTS.

When a girl falls in love she stops
laying her prayers, but after she is
married she begins them agaln.-Amer
lean Globe.
The newly invented apparatus fol-
feeding the fires of electric. light plants
does away entirely with the necessity
of handling coal after it has been dump
ed in the fuel room.
The manufacture of luminous paint
has been began in Austria on u large
Gale. at about a sixth of the cost
| hitherto. A special paper is supplied
for use when the paint is applied 10
walls.
Brannerite 10 the name OF a new
mineral recently discovered in the
northern part OF Arkansas by Prof. W.
| Albert Chaplain, of Lead Hill, and
nam, d in honor of Prof. John g. Bran
ner, the Arkansas state geologist.
1t is reported from Birmingham Ala ,
that a Scotch chemist named Archibald
has discovered a process by y hich all
phosphorus may be removed frOM iron
and the ore converted into Bessem er
pig at a cost of only fifty cents "A ton
The process is said to have been sue
cessfully tested.
Recent investigations in a French
medical institution show that death
from hydrophObla is the result of brain
and spinal inflammation rather than
blood poisoning. Hydrophobia could
not be caused by incubation of the
blood, but followed from incubation
Of the nerve tissue, as was sllU II by
experiment.
A peculiar industry has sprung mp
car Albany, N. Y, since lsS3-lha,
( supplying crushed stone for asphalt
I'D macadamized roads. The quarry
IN which the stone is taken is oper.
ted night and day. One thousand tons
Il rock Il day are crushed, and $50 cars
re used in transporting the fragments
{ rock to all parts OF the country.
A young German student of Assyriol-
ey has been experimenting with soft
les and a stylus, and concludes that
he Assyrlans wrote their cunifOrIn
ines with a cube shaped instrument
"aving a pointed end, which was made
f wood, not metal. lie Processes To
lind ii very easy TO write cunifurm a.
rapidly rs German with such a stylus.
A Russian engineer has invented Il
device for utilizing the power OF run
ming streams. His apparatus consists
of an endless cable, carrying a series of
canvas cones, which open and shut like
an umbrella. The cable passes over n
double drum OH board "a pontoon, and
1T the other end Over n pulley suspend
ed from a buoy. On the 10 Is err part of
the rope the cones are opened and
forced forward by the current of water,
hus setting in motion a shaft or drum.
A wonderful revolution in flour bar
oil making Is promised by IA patent
which has been granted Tor the making
OF barrels out of cotton duck instead of
wood. The rev material is impervinus
80 water and resists fire for IA long time.
1t weighs to the barrel about fifteen
Ounds less than the wOon, and can be
manufactured lei per cent. cheauer.
The cotton duck barrel ear be rolled up
into small space and returned TO the
mills for frequent use.
Most railroads in this country when
renewing their rails order heavier ones
ihan have previously been used on their
tracks. a better road bed and heavier
rsils are required for increasing traffic,
heavier locomotives and greater speed.
A short line ago the standard weight
of rails was tifty-six pounds per yard,
requiring lightweight lon per mile of
single track. As a sixty-live pound rail
takes a little over me hundred tons per
mile of single track, although only
nine pounds per yard heavier than a
tiiiy-Hix hound rail, il is easy tO see
that the tonnage OF rails manufactured
during the year is steadily increasing to
an enormous extent.