Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1890-06-20
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

Dakota. to supply the country for ages.
1t takes about three seconds for mes
sage to 90 from one end of tn" Atlantic
cable to tho other.
Black silks are often weighted" With
various chemicals to the amount Of 100,
200 and 300 per cent.
Numerous companies are organizing 10
Kentucky to bore for gs6 aad oil, to bt
piped long distances.
DR.. Chamberlain, Pasteurs chief as
sistant, has discovered that cinnamon il
fatal to the typhoid microbe.
The practice of dyeing Easter eggs is
said to have led to the discovery Of the
value of albumen as a mordant.
Oxalic acid dissolved in water and
mixed, if desired, with little tartaric
acid will remove ink stains from white
paper.
An electric ice cutter that will do bet
ter and quicker work than twenty-five
horses, plow, men and leaders has been
invented.
OF tue l0S new roses produced during
the year 1899. just seventy-threc are
credited By Vienna journal to France,
and only five to the United States.
The manufacture from pine needles OF
coarse cloth for cotton bagging, and OF
excellent mating are noted as rising in
dustrics in some parts of the South.
An Ansonia Comm druggist has an
electric bell in cabinet containing poi
sons. When the door opens the bell
rings, reminding the compoundcr that
he is handling poisons.
An English naval officer has invented
pneumatic line-throwing gun, very
light and portable, which fires a hollow
shell bearing the cord to a wrecked yes.
sci or into a burning building on dry
land
An enterprising Chinaman in Muneap'
oils is arranging for an electric ironer In
his laundry, and proposes before another
year to cut down laundry rates so low, as
to drive all his competitors out of the
business.
1t is claimed that wall paper can be
made in such way that the passage oil
low tension electric currents will heat il
moderately warm to the touch and diff
fuse throughout the room an agreeable
temperature.
A new red glass has been recently pro
duced in Germany. Besides its use fol-
for the manufacture of bottles, goblet:
and vases of various kinds, it is applica
BILE in photography and in chemists and
opticians laboratories.
An accepted authority says the spring
onion is great sleep inducer, aud abou
equal to quinine for malaria. 1t is KEEP
out of its most useful province by thu
prejudice against the odor. This may b.
overcome by hypnotism, and made
nasal delight
A florist in London has adopted tn
pretty plan of hanging trails ofmoss ovel
and around the electric lights in his win
dow. The green and yellow tints of thu
delicate leaves form graceful and daint.,
veil for the light which glimmers througl
them without being diminished.
The London Lancet recommends
beverage made from the new kolanut a
substitute for tea and coffee. 1t con
tains very little tannin, not much NOR
caffeine, and its power of rehabilitatins
after fatigue and allaying the pangs o
hunger are such that it might be used By
an army on the march in place of regula
rauons.
The photographing of caves or othe
chambers underground, where portabl
camera can be easily installed, offers NJ
particular difficulty, and it is compare
lively simple matter to obtain curiou
aud interesting views under such circum
stances, illuminating the bowels of tn
earth by burning magnesium tape, whic
gives brilliant light by means of whic
surrounding objects can be photographed