, 1890-05-01
rHE INVENTIVE GENIUS.
Novelties In tho Line or Modern Dis
cDyery.

Fine straw bngging ana mating are
now being successfully manuiact ured.
new yentilator car has been con
structed for the transportation VI ba-
nunas and other perishible fruit.
When mines are lighted by incandes.
cont tight It Is claimed that dangers
from fre-danlp and explosive gases will
be mi nimizod,
1t is claimed that wall paper can be
made in such a way that the pas sage oi
low tension electric current will heat
II modomtely warm TO the touch and
dinuse throughout the room an agree.
able temperature.
The first German Catholic church To
be lighted by electricity is the stras.
burg cathedral, and, although the dim
religious light OF former days il some
what interiered with the effect, US a
whole, is highly satisfactory.
In library in Paris, said to be the
largest in the world. " Chinese chart
of thc heavens, In which AGO starr are
to be- found to be correctly placed ac-
cording To the scientists OF tile present
day. The chart was made In TOO D.. &.
IL is stated In thc Alliance. that ia one
of the London institutions which still
maintain their quantity Of alcohol, q
per cent. OF the typhoid fever patients
die whereas in Glasgow Fever hosuital
where milk is used, the mortality is
only IL per cent.
a new photograph, said to be much
simpler thtn amy other so far intro
duccd, has lately appeared in Milan. Il
can reproduce music and the human
voice in most marvellous manner and
one of it, features is its cheapncs., the
wax cylinders used costing only 20
confines,
American inventions have chenpened
and facilitated canal construction, both
rs To excavation and locks, to such an
extent that the Nicaragua canal will be
completed in hall the time and Mt half
the cost that the same work would have
demanded hity years ago.
he fact is stated as sign Of the
modern tendency In the construction OF
marine engines that the builders OF high.
speed vessels are now prepared to make
qundr1plc expansion engines tnnt will
give much more economical and salts
factory results than the triple expansion
type now in use
Au English photographer claims to
have obtained photograph in which
the natural cOlors were reproduced when
the exposure was made. by accident,
lust at the moment VIXEN there came q
blimiing flash OF lightning. lie says
that friend Of his once got a colored
believcs that electricity has to do with
photographing colors,
Electricity is now used in working
copper by an English inventor. aud the
results. IL is claimed. are alluring. In
brief. The copper Il elect rically deposit-
cd from the rough burs upon a revolving
inandrel or mold, over the lace OF which
passes a hurrisher condensing the con
per particles as they are deposited. The
material in this way IL rendered dense,
hbTous. and cohesive, and also possesses
an Otherwise unobtainAble strength and
ductility. all at low cost Seamless
pipes OF any diameter can thus be pro-
duced far cheaper than 10y any other
process.
Dr. Patrick, of Oppeln. describes. &c.
cording to the Weekly Medical Review.
his methOd of removing warts 10y elce.
tricity. The wart Is first thoroughly
molstened with warm solution of sail.
Both needles are then thrust through it
just above the surface OF the skin, and
tho current turned on, one element AT.
ter another being added until pain is
felt. Five coils are sufficient with
most eases two sittings of five minutes
each arr su iicent to destroy the growth.
which gradually dries up and tails
away, leaving surface at first slightly
Redeemed, but which later assumes the
appearauce of normal skin