The Opelousas courier., 1889-08-31
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

Galveston, Texas, is putting up a
cotton mill to cost $500, 900.
Scientists declare that the average size
of mems neeks is decreasing.
An electrical shoal water indicator has
just been devised by two Mexicans.
Western manufacturers find that oil is
q cheap and entirely satisfactory substi-
tute for hard fuel.
The temperature in the deepest coal
mines in the world is ninety-1ive degrees.
They are in France.
Virginia City, New, has the biggest
electric plant on earth. 1t has SIX l2O
horsepower generators, and runs a mine
and mill.
A rock breaker has just been made at
Chicago which weighs forty-tive tons and
which will break a big rock at the rate
of two to three tons per minute.
The Union Pacific has just ordered
seventy-six locomotives from the Bald
win Locomotive Works at Philadelphia,
to be finished as soon as possible.
The Vermont Microscopical Association
has announced that a prize of $3.50, given
by a firm of chemists, will be paid to the
FIRST discoverer of a new disease germ.
A wealthy Spanisrd, named Suenos,
has donated to the Government the sum
of 500, 900 for the purpose OF making
experiments with a new submarine boat.
Extensive works, to employ many bun
dreds of workmen, are to be started Ill
Germany for the manufacture Of paper
from iron and glass by a newly discovered
process.
A S~cotchman, who evidently does not
despise small things, claims that he has
detected 80, 600 dust notes in the
thousandeth part of a cubic inch of the
air of a room.
London's smoke, it is said, contains
each day 800 tons of carbon, whose waste
is estimated at $13, 600, 900 yearly, while
the damage to buildings is set down at
SO, 600, 900.
There are more paper mills running
more machines III the United States than
in any other country in the world. Ger
many has nearly as many, but no other
country has half as many.
The cotton industry is beginning to
flourish in Greece and there are several
mills among its classic isles in which both
spinning and weaving are carried On. II
is Greek cotton that is generally used in
these mills.
Coatesville, Penn, will soon have the
largest steel-plate mill in the world. The
rolls will be 34x20, driven by a 46x60
Corliss engine. The fy-wheel will weigh
100, 900 pounds; with q steel shaft IL
feet in diameter.
The statistics given by an English
paper show that the modern labor.
saving machinery introduced into the
foundries and machine shops of England
has enabled fifty workmen to produce as
many castings as were formerly turned
out by 200 workmen.
AS usually happens about this time Of
the year, a new substitute for white lead
is said to have been discovered. Each
year somebody brings a new one upon the
market with a great display, but thus far
Iapothing has been discovered which salts.
factorily fills the place of white lead.
The latest expensive wilma INDUCED in
by the King Of Wurtemberg is the photo.
graphing CT the moon to ascertain whether
It is inhabited. He has the negatives
magnified one hundred thousand fold, and
has thus far discovered nehule covered
with little dots, which he believes to be
Lunar people.
Another unbreakable substitute fe.
glass, a French invention, consists in i'm.
mersing wire in a heated state in a thin
paste formed of soluable glass, gelatina
and glycerine, or glucose, in proportions
varying according to the use for which
the material is designed. When nearr
dry, the sheets are dipped IN a concen-
treted solution of chrome alum or bichro-
mate of potash. Any desired colorine
matter may be incorporated With the gela.
tine, and copal or other protective var
nish applied to the surface.