The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-11-13
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

A great hydraulic canal is proposed to
convey portion of the water of niagara
River, aud thus utilize this enormous
power for manufacturing. purposes.
OF the 1900 species of flowers now
cultivated in Europe, only ten per cent
give forth any ordor. Therefore, il
cannot be said that most flowers are fra
grant.
The latest invention is clothing made
of fabric in which fine threads Of cork
are interviewer with wool or silk, which
renders it impossible for the wearer tC
sink in water.
One of the latest inventions in the
bicycle line in whistle that is operated
by the automatic application of small
wheel upon the revolving tire of thu
steering wheel.
Professor Cohen, of Breslau, Germany
has found by careful experiment that the
heating of damp hay to temperature
sufficient to cause spontaneous combus
ton is due to fungus.
The distance from which lighthous,
becomes visible on board an ocean vesse
depends upon the state of the weathe
and the ocean. In clear, calm weathe
powerful light can be seen thirty miles
A New York inventor has completed
an air pressing machine whereby car
compress the air which moves them, ant
allowing for friction this can continu,
long enough to be the next thing to per
petual motion.
Professor Orton, while urging the i'm
perative necessity of taking action to re-
strict the wasteful use of natural gas, ad-
mits that even the strictest regulations
cannot prevent the exhaustion of the
supply in few years.
1t has been suggested that the study
of the influence of diet and habit upor
the color of hair in different nations o.
men may cause discoveries by which tn,
color of the hair in the human race may
be modified by judicious treatment.
Bricks boiled in coal tar are rendered
hard and durable, and machine mad
brick, if boiled for long period, sa,
twenty-four hours, become waterproof
Bricks thus treated are well adapted fo
sewers, cesspools, and the foundations o
buildings.
A curious farinaceous substance is re
ported by NJ. Rene de Champagne to hav
fallen in Asiatic Turkey during hail
storm, and to have been sold by tn
kurds under the name of "celestia
grain" 1t is described as resembling the
mulberry in shape and size.
One cause assigned by several physi
clans and druggists for the incrcasin!
number of victims to the opium habit il
the use of antipyrene. A great humble
of young women, especially female clerks
take antipyrene in such quantities that i
finally loses its restorative power. The,
then resort to morphine.
Baron James Rothschild, Of London
has adorned his drawing-room with tn
most superb electrolier ever made. 1t i
composed of gilt bronze and rock crysta
in design of the time of Louis XVI.
sixty-eight electric lights being skillfull
arranged among the bronze leaves. Thi
unique illumination is about five feet higl
by twenty eight inches in diameter, an
cost $4,000.
To end the long dispute which ha
been waged with reference to the RICH
designation of the metal which is no,
assuming such Importance, it is urge,
that the largest producers in the work
favor the form aluminium, which also ha
the advantage OF greater brevity, an
that therefore foreign scientific journal
and scientific men should follow the ex
ample of American journals and call
once for all aluminium, instead of alum
inium.