The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-05-28
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

Krupp has Just completed a gun for
the Russian Government that has range
of eleven miles.
A farmer of Braintrce, Mass, has Just
died from CHAMBERS, having caught the
disease of one of his horses.
The habitual drinking of boiled water
would insure escape from sickness and
death to thousands of the human race
yearly.
II is announced that photographer
named Veresez, in Kla, Pennsylvania, has
succeeded in taking photographs in nat
ural colors.
Signor Succi, the Italian scientist has
come to the front again with his discov-
cry of liquid, the use of which enables
a man to go an unlimited length of time
without food.
A Russian officer has invented lumin-
Gus projectile to be thrown from gun.
1t is claimed that it will he extremely
useful for discovering the movements of
an enemy in naval contest at night
Silks that are dyed in this country arc
less heavily weighted and are not sub
ject to spontaneous combustion, but
the Frenchmen often use two pounds and
a half of dye stuff to one pound of silk.
The rich magnetic iron near Dahlonega,
Ga, continues to excite much interest.
Thousands of acres are being conveyed
by option to outside capitalists, who
propose developing it when the railroad
is completed.
Cheese is one of the very few modern
food substances which are never grossly
adulterated. Its only adulterant, in fact,
at the present time is its coloring ma
terial, which is usually annatto, saffron
or common carrots.
According to reliable estimates not
more than one egg in 200 Matched natur-
ally in the waters produce fish capable
of feeding itself, thus representing by
far the greatest expectancy of destfuc-
ton in the number of eggs laid by the
female.
In Europe iron Stag is cast into blocks
and used for street pavements and house
building. In Cleveland, Ohio, there is a
factory which converts it into mineral
wool. 1t is mass of very fine fbres
filed with CLASSY particles. 1t is soft,
plant and inelastic.
The substitution of steam for com
pressed air in gun intended to throw
shells containing dynamite or other high
explosives is proposed in France, the ad-
vantages claimed being the furnishing of
power direct from the boiler without the
use of air-compressing machinery.
One-seventh of the coal mined is lost
from being broken up too finely to be
burned with profit. A prominent rail
road company is now mixing the dust
with pitch, and COMPRISING it into
blocks that burn like hard coal, with the
advantage that they are entirely consumed
to ashes and leave no clinkers.
English stoats and weasels are being
exported to New Zealand from England
in large numbers to kill off the rabbits,
and the rats which have been food for
the stoats and weasels in England are in
creasing enormously in many districts.
There is talk of movement to prevent
the expectation of any more rat destroy
ers.
The natives of Hayti, according to DR..
r. p. Crandall, fear pulmonary consump-
ton more than yellow fever or small pox
and believe i; to be both contagious and
infectious. All property from con-
sumptives death-chamber-even jewels
and money-is destroyed or removed to
a nlope Of donosit and small bo1saS ora
burned.
An electrician, writing recently on the
action of electricity on the human body,
says that just what takes place in the
human organism to produce death from
an electric current seems to be an un-
solved problem. One of the theories
sometimes advanced concerning it is that
when being suffers death from electric
shock it is a pure case of internal rupture
or explosion from the generation of gas
or vapor.