The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-05-02
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

A good many natural gas wells are
being found in Kentucky.
Man can be afflicted with 1145 different
ailments known to medical science.
There are said to be more than one
hundred thousand varieties of butterflies.
Bone ashes enter more largely into the
making of phosphorus than anything
else.
Some species of cuttlefish are said to be
able to change color with the rapidity of
the chameleon.
A vein of hot mineral water has been
struck in the Alma Mich sanitarium at
depth of 1876 feet.
Ammonia gas is said to be more largely
used for the making of artificial ice than
for all other purposes combined.
A scientist calculates that the time re-
quired for body to fall from the moons
distance to the earth would be about four
days and twenty hours.
The Standard Oil Company has alb
sorbed the big Chicago gas trust and will
manufacture gas from oil brought through
the pipe there from Lima.
Four locomotives are being made at
Baldwin's Locomotive Works, Philadel-
phia, to run by soda instead of coal.
Soda engines are used in some parts Of
Europe.
Vanadium is said to cost $4,000 per
pound; chromium, $1,000; lithium, the
highest Of the metals, $7700; rhodium,
$4,000, and iridium, the heaviest substance
known, $4,000.
An eight-mile tunnel, sixteen feet in
diameter, is to be dug through noun
tain in Norway through which water will
flow carrying logs from the forest to the
other extremity.
The system to relieve street traffic in
Paris, as proposed by NJ. Berliner, consists
substantially of q system of subterranean
cast-iron tubes, 1874 feet in diameter and
10 miles in total length.
The tanning of boa constructor skins
has for some time been an interesting &C.
cupation pursued by certain parties in
Hamburg, N. j., the material being
principally worked up into pocketbooks.
The electricians of the Paris Exposition
have, it is said, devised method by
which the waters from hidden fountains
will be illuminated by electric light, with
the result of producing very elaborate and
artistic effects in color.
The bright star Campus emits more
than one thousand five hundred times the
light of our sun Sirius is at such dis
lance that its light occupies nearly nine
years in reaching us, and its real bright
ness is that of sixty-three suns.
In length of only rs miles, railway
on the French Island of Reunion has -four
tunnels aggregating nearly seven miles,
with many deep cuttings and high en-
bankments; 43 large bridges, including
one of 1910 feet and one of 1912 feet,
together with 200 bridges and culyerts Of
less than 33 feet.
In the Juices of the healthy stomach
Mons. ]. Z. Abelous has found nine new
forms of microbes in addition to sever
previously known. These microbes mus
play an important part in digestion, bu
their principal effect upon the food SEEM
to be after it has passed from the stomach
into the intestinal tract
1t is reported that process has beer
invented for extracting silk fibre from tn
mulberry leaf without the Intervention o
the silk worm. The quality of the sill
, obtained is declared to be equal to tn
, best silk worm product. 1t is an Amer
can invention, and if as successful as
anticipated, will work revolution in tn
, production of silk.
r The storage battery will soon com
e into general use for commercial purposes
/ The electricians have about completes
t their arrangements and many of ther
e predict that steam power, except as a gen
a orator of electricity, will in few year
| be generally abandoned. They also pre-
t dict that electric air ships will also be a
7 common in the early part of the mex
century as water crafts are at present.