Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1890-07-18
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

There is enough tin in the Black Hills,
Dakota, to supply the country for ages.
1t takes about three seconds for mes
sage to go from one end of tho Atlantic
cable to the other.
Black silks are often s'weighted" with
various chemicals to the amount of 100,
200 and 300 per cent.
Numerous companies are organizing in
Kentucky to bore for gas and oil, to be
piped long distances.
Dr. Chamberlain, Pasteur's chief as
sistant, has discovered that cinnamon is
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 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 the los new roses produced during
the year 1889, just seventy-three 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
dustries in some parts of the South.
An Ansonia Conn., druggist has an
electric bell in cabinet containing poi
sons. When the door opens the bell
rings, reminding the compounder 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 wrecked ves-
sci or into burning building on dry
land.
An enterprising Chinaman in Mnneap-
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.
It is claimed that wall paper can be
made in such a way that the passage of
low tension electric currents will heat it
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 for
for the manufacture of bottles, goblets
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, and about
equal to quinine for malaria. 1t is kept
out of its most useful province by the
prejudice against the odor. This may be
overcome by hypnotism, and made
nasal delight.
A florist in London has adopted the
pretty plan of hanging trails ofmoss over
and around the electric lights in his win
dow. The green and yellow tints of the
delicate leaves form graceful and dainty
veil for the light which glimmers through
them without being diminished.
The London Lancet recommends
beverage made from the new kolanut as
a substitute for tea and coffee. 1t con-
tains very little tannin, not much more
caffeine, and its power of rehabilitating
after fatigue and allaying the pangs of
hunger are such that it might be used by
an army on the march in place of regular
ratlons.
The -. .ographlng OF caves or otner
chambers underground, where portable
camera can be easily installed, offers no
particular difficulty, and it is a compara-
lively simple matter to obtain curious
and interesting views under such circum-
stances, Illuminating the bowels of the
earth by burning magnesium tape, which
gives brilliant light by means of which