Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-02-28
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY
-Louisiana is becoming very in
portant sugar and lumber State

Louisiana is becoming a very i'm.
portant sugar and lumber State.
The boy bakers In San Francisco,a
industrial school make bread for ali ~.
public institutions.
"A meteorological station 10 to hs &c
.anilshed at liberals, Palestine, which
- ooS ieet below the level of the Medit+
erranean
M. Beauregard, an eminent Egypt
o,ogist, believes that Egypt at the time
Vi the Pharaohs exhibited the mixed con.
oition OF combining the use of flint i'm.
plements with acquaintance with the
means OF extracting copper and blend
ing 1T with other metal.
"A new textile material. called veoe
Table flannel, now being manufactured
Id "ermany, out Of pine leaves. The
Aoer' somewhat resembling hemp. Il
spun- knitted and woven into under
garments, blankets and clothing O,
various kinds. This fabric is said IL
Keep the body warm without heating
ana is exceedingly cheap and durable.
In observations with kites and bal
looms, Prof. Leonhard Weber has found
That the atmosphere is negatively cleo
trlfied up to height of about one hun
area yards, beyond which it lis positively
electrified in degree increasing very
rapidly with the distance from the earth
Inc negative electrification of the lower
strata of the air is attributed to the
presence of germs and dust particles.
The authorities say that the dura
ton OF lightning fash is not infinitesi
mai, but that the flash lasts measure
bic time. For example, if one sets 8
camera In rapid vibration and exposes
IN 1t plate so as to receive the impress
sion OF the fash, it is found that the i'm
pressions appear widened out on the
negative, showing the negative to have
moved during the time the flash was in
existence.
- notice." said prominent brick
ma ker to Detroit Free Press reporter
that there is now being introduced into
THIS country the famous Swiss patent foi
making iron-clad brick ''Iron-clad
brick?" Eyes, sir. That is to say. the
clay is mixed with certain amount OF
iron ore and burned under certain re.
quirements of temperature. in pecu.
llarly made kiln, etc. The result is
something startling. Such brick are un.
surpassed even by stone itself. For paw.
ing they are simply unapproachable. ]
hope to see our Detroit manufacturers
take hold of this thing"
One of the industries now followed
In London, and certainlya novel and re-
markable one, even for this age, is that
OF separating and storing oxygen from
the atmosphere. This interesting pro.
cess has unique application in the ma.
turing of spirits and in improving the
quality of beer, and, though this is far
from being the only application which
is made OF pure oxygen, it is one which,
for various reasons, has excited most at
tention, especially in that department
OF trade, on account of it's financial bear
ings 1t is claimed that the oxygen. in
its contact with spirits, actually accom-.
plishes in few days what, if left to the
natural and usual process, requires a
period of from three to five years. The
oxygen, it is said, gets rid of the fusel
oil quickly, thus relieving the liquid OF
its most injurious property, and not only
this, but a maturer effect is also pro
duced on beer by admixture with oxy.
gen.