The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-12-03
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

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An Iowa court has decided that a
meteor belongs to the person on whose
land il falls.
Montana claims to have the largest and
finest jasper quarries in the world, re-
Gently discovered.
A new gun has been perfected by Signor
Guidolli, of Lucca, which will fire sixty
four shots minute.
For every fifteen yards we descend into
the earth the temperature increases about
ten degrees Fahrenheit.
The fastest ship in the French navy
now has a speed of 1858 knots per
hour without engine strain.
An Italian savant claims that in
jecting a current of electricity through
milk delays its souring for several days.
A new system of ventilation, never be-
fore used on ocean steamships, is to be
factor of the two new vessels now being
constructed for the transatlantic service
of the Cunard Line.
A rich bed of coal has been discovered
in the Russian Amoor province of Siberia,
on Usuri River. The quality of the de-
posit is said to be equal to that of the
best English product.
1t is the opinion of noted specialists on
diseases of the nose, throat and lungs
that one baby in every three has growth
in the nose that obstructs respiration. 1t
is due to covering up the head.
One of the steel saws at the Washing
ton Gun Foundry recently cut through
piece of gun carriage metal four inches
in width by five inches in thickness in
twenty minutes. The saw is of English
make.
Two chemists are experimenting at
Freeport, Penn, with the view Of pro.
ducing carbon points for electric lighting
from natural gas. 1t is said that by
burning the gas in a specially prepared
furnace pure carbon is obtained, but as
yet at cost too great for practical pur-
poses.
A twenty-two-ipch iron pipe which
was recently exhumed after being buried
in the earth for fourteen years, at Lassen,
CAL, came out as good as new. The
pipe was coated with asphaltum when it
was put into the ground. This may be
taken as good fest of the preservative
virtues of asphaltum.
An old sea captains argument is re-
called at the completion of the race be-
tween the steamships City of New York
and Teutonic. His was the view that
the City of New York would win the
eastward passage and the Teutonic the
westward, because the vessels are evenly
matched, and one is better adapted to
English and the other to American
Goals
The Buffalo IN. " fire department
| has lately received q novel fire engine
which has excited much interest in that
city. The carriage is constructed en-
tirely of papier mache, all the different
parts of the body, wheels, poles and the
rest being finished in the best possible
manner. While the durability and
powers of resistance possessed by this
material are fully as great as those of
wood the weight is, of course, much
less.
A new machine has been designed for
the excavation of sewer trenches. The
material in this system of excavation is
handled but once, and the operation is
continuous, a line of loaded buckets
passing out and line of empty ones re-
turning to be filled at the same time.
Ordinary excavating machines require
the empty buckets to be returned over
the same line over which the full ones
are sent out, and it is claimed that for
this reason the new machine can work
more rapidly aud cheaply.
The six-inch ordnance rifle which sue
ceeded in demolishing the British armor
plate at Annapolis is capable of hurting a
projcctile through 10t inches of wrought
iron placed 1000 yards from the muzzlo
of the gun. The power of the eight
inch gun is 16 $40 inches, same dis
tance, and of the ten-inch gun twenty
one inches, same distance. The twelve
inch projectile will pierce twenty eight
inches at distance Of 5000 yards. The
thirteen-ineh guns, which will be pro-
vided for the battle ships, are capable of
demolishing the heaviest armor.