The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-03-20
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL


Rails in use rust less quickly than rails
At rest.
Idaho is developing into the great lead
district of the country.
Electric push bells will replace the
old-time bell strap in train cars.
Rod furnaces are being successfully
heated with water gas in England.
A novel feature in a ''sleeper" is an
ncandescent burner in every section.
Boston electricians are opposed to the
use of electricity for executing criminals.
Sea water in calm weather begins to
freeze at some point beneath the sur
face.
Thirty-fve flashes of lightning would
Keep an incaudescent lamp burning an
hour.
Welding telegraph wires by cleo
tricity bids fair to replace all other
methods.
The movement of glaciers IN summer
IS found to be four times that made in
the winter.
Scientific experiments are in PROCESS
which seek TO use tobacco smoke as a
disinfectant
Electric lights are said to scare away
!he wild geese that do so much mischief
for California farmers.
One ton of coal is capable of yielding
an amount OF force equivalent to that of
six and two. thirds men.
The vegetable matter in the sea to the
westward OF the Azores mas been found
to contain large amount of fish and
other life sustaining substances.
It is said that fatigued eye RECEIVERS
last the perception of the color by which
the fatigue has been induced, and first
RECEIVERS the sensitiveness of the com
Elementary color,
As the results of recent experience in
Prussia with electric search lights on
shore, the Government authorities ex-
press themselves as sufficiently sat SIZED
to have them used for war purposes.
A mill for making boxes for fruit and
vegetables from shavings of sweet gum,
sycamore and other understandable
woods has just been established on the
Congaree River, near Fort Motto, South
Carolina.
4 Minneapolis printer, who is some.
thing of an electrician, has devised a
process of matriX making by electricity,
which is thought will do away with the
use of movable type and reduce the cost
of printing one half.
Examinations IN English schools go
toward proving that color blindness is
often declared to be present when really
no organic defect but only poor training
in the naming and distinction of colors
is found TO be the trouble
The microscopic of the Department
of Agriculture Professor Thomas Tay-
lor, has discovered that pepper is adul-
terated often as much as fifty per cent.
with the seed or stone of the olive, which
are obtained in large quantities from the
olive oil factories.
1t has lately been discovered by DR..
Herold, of the Board of Health of New
ark, n. j., that many cases of lead poi
soning result from the use of bottled
soda water, the shoppers of which
usually contain lead, which is dissolved
by the soda-water.
Gold pens are slit by means of the
smallest circular saw in use. 1t is disc
about the size of tive-c cent piece. and
has the thickness of ordinary paper. Its
velocity tends TO keep it rigid enough
for use. -Four hundred revolutions
minute is the ordinary rate OF these di-
minutive saws.
The raising of 80 bushels of wheat to
the acre will remove from the land 81
pounds of nitrogen, "a pounds of phos
phoric acid and 81 pounds of potash.
This could be replaced by go pounds of
sulphate of ammonia, III pounds of
super.phosphate f.line and i6 pounds
of chloride of potash.
The following facts about the tongue
may interest some people. A white
tongue is said TO denote febrile disturb
ance; a brown, moist tongue, indiges-
ton; brown, dry tongue, depression,
blood poisoning, typhoid fever; red,
moist tongue, iniammatory fever; a red,
glazed tongue, general fever; loss OF
| digestion; a tremulous, moist and fappy
tongue, feeblcness, nervousness.