The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-06-04
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

A new orematory is TO be built il
Paris, which will do its work in les
than an hour.
Kerosene as a therapeutic agent is
highly spoken OF by DR.. II. A. Gross in
the Medical World
In new Swedish glass phosphorus
and boron are the most important of
fourteen constituents.
A commission of the German railway
companies estimates the duration OF
steel rails at thirty-hvc years.
Quatrefages reckons up at least 172
races Of men, all however reducible to
the three fundamental black, yellow and
white stems.
Boxite, or silverine, rs some call it,
has been discovered near Adairsville, Ga.
1t is said to be worth $40 ton, and is
being mined.
A recent patent applies to a machine
for dusting poisonous powders on grow
ing plants, such as cotton OF potatoes, to
rid them Of insects.
A project for the repression Of false
has been submitted to the Industrial
Conference at Madrid.
Steel seamless boats are made by hy-
draulic power in England. They are said
to be superior to those of wood, and can
be produced at about the same cost.
The use of saccharine in France has
been restricted, as its antiseptic natures
when used in large quantities, retards di-
gestion, neutralizing the gastric juice.
The American Cotton Seed Oil Trust
is now running a mill for making paper
from the hulls remaining after all the oil
has been squeezed out of the cotton seed.
Willis Barnes, of Charleston, Ind, has
invented little machine which is oper-
ated by clockwork, and marks, automati-
cally, on glass, so, 600 lines on the space
Of an inch
The vapor of glycerine has recently
been used by French physicians when
ever a distressing or frequent cough has
had TO be alleviated. The remedy is
very simple in application.
The new storage battery for lighting
cars by electricity, recently tested on the
Chicago and Northwestern Railroad. has
a capacity that will supply ten lamps
with light for thirty consecutive hours.
A remarkable feature of the large coal
mine at St. Andre du Poirise, France,
which is over 5000 feet in depth, is the
comparatively low temperature expert
enced which is seldom more than rs deg.
Fahrenheit.
A new electric boring machine for drill
ing rivet-holes in boilers not only has a
small motor for driving the drill, but is
held up against the plate by means of a
pair of powerful electro magnets, making
clamping unnecessary.
An Englishman has invented means
of utilizing the principle of stills with
wheels. The wheels are fastened to the
feet as stills are, and each acts as sort
of independent bicycle. They go very
fast when one has learned how to walk
on them.
An apparatus has been invented which
is intended for prevention of collision in
time of fogs. A large funnel is mounted
on the fore part of the vessel, and turns
round at the rate of five turns minute.
The waves of sound caused by the move
ment of another vessel are received by
membrane and transmitted by means of
a microphone to receiver, which indi-
Gates by means of electro magnets from
which point of the compass the noise
comes. These are indicated by white
disks marking the direction, and an elec-
trio bell also sounds. Several receivers
are intended to be worked from the same
transmitter, for the Captain and also for
the engine man, who could stop at once,
or slow down if the vessel was coming in
the opposite direction.