The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-12-10
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

A great hydraullC canal IS proposed 10
convey a portion of the water of Niagara
River, and thus utilize this enormous
power for manufacturing purposes.
OF the 42OO species of flowers now
cultivated in Europe, only ten per cent.
give forth any ordor. Therefore, it
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 to
sink in water.
One Of the latest inventions in the
bicycle line in a whistle that is operated
by the automatic application of a small
wheel upon the revolving tire of the
steering wheel.
Professor Cohen, of Breslau, Germany,
has found by careful experiment that the
heating of damp hay to temperature
sufficient to cause spI htaneous combus-
tion is due to fungus.
The distance from which Lighthouse
becomes visible on board an ocean vessel
depends upon the state of the weather
and the ocean. In clear, calm weather
a powerful light can be seen thirty miles.
A New York inventor has completed
an r-pressing machine whereby cars
compress the air which moves them, and
allowing for friction this can continue
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 a few years.
1t has been suggested that the STUDY
of the influence of diet and habit upon
the color of hair in different nations OF
men may cause discoveries by which the
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 made
brick, if boiled for long period, say
twenty-four hours, become waterproof
Bricks thus treated are well adapted fol
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 a hail
storm, and to have been sold by th
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 increasing
number of victims to the opium habit /
the use of antipyrene. A great nunbe
of young women, especially female clerks
take antipyrene in such quantities that
finally loses its restorative power. The
then resort to morphine.
Baron James Rotnschild, of London
has adorned his drawing-room with tb
most superb electrolier ever made. 1t i
composed of gilt bronze and rock crystr
in design of the time of Louis XVI
sixty-eight electric lights being skillfull
arranged among the bronze leaves. Thi
unique illuminator is about five feet hig
by twenty eight inches in diameter, an
cost $4,000.
To end the long dispute which ha
been waged with reference to the righ
designation of the metal which is no.
assuming such importance, it is urge
that the largest producers in the worl,
favor the form aluminium, which also ho
the advantage of greater brevity, an
that therefore foreign scientific journal
and scientific men should follow the el
ample of American journals and call
once for all aluminium, instead of alum
inium.