The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-10-18
INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

INDUSTRIAL NOTES.
Uranium was unknown century ago,
but "a lode has been found i'll mine III
Cornwell, England. 1t sells for $4,000
u ton.
Banana punches brought from tropical
America sometimes contain snakes Oh
the family Boidn tightly wound round
the central stem. a specimen OF this
kind was taken in Savannah, Ga, and
was sent to the United States National
Museum. identified it as the Epicrates
augulifer, n native of Cuba. More re-
Gently snake was found in similar
situation in lot of bananas in Chi
cage, and was sent by DR.. j. IL. Han.
cock to the National Museum. Dr.
Stejugcr has identified it as the Boa
imperator, the common species of
Central America and Mexico. The
boas of the genera named could not be
concealed in so small space.-E. ID.
Cope.
According to some statistics recently
published in France, the annual con-
sumption of salt per head in England
exceeds that of any other country in
Europe. For while in France the amount
is estimated at about thirty pounds,
Italy twenty, Russia eighteen, Austria
sixteen, Prussia fourteen, Spain twelve,
Switzerland eight, the Englishman re-
Quires no less than forty pounds. The
Hospital Gazette thinks that perhaps
this is the secret of British thirst. If
so, it offers an easy solution to the
drink question, which the temperance
On1 ho ell i'm Il
New York Medical Record
The large consumption of salt in Eng
land is due to the extensive manufac-
ture of soda, bleaching powders. etc,
which are made from salt.-Ed. Scien
titic American.
A paste which will stick anything is
said by Professor Winchell to be made
as follows: Take two ounces of clear
gum arabic. one and a half ounces of
fine starch, and half an ounce of white
sugar. Dissolve the gum arabic in as
much water as the laundress would use
for the quantity Of starch indicated.
Mix the starch and sugar with the mu-
cilage. Then cook the mixture in a
vessel suspended in boiling water until
the starch becomes clear. The cement
should be as thick as tar, and kept So
1t can be kept from spelling by the adj
dition of camphor or little oil of cloves.
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The glass for one part of the great
forty-inch objective for the new South
ern California observatory has been re-
ceived by the Clark Brothers, of Cam
bridgeport, Massachusetts. They were
the makers of the thirty-siX inch objcc-
tive of tho Lick telescope, which is now
the largest in the world The new one
is to he of four inches greater diameter.
The telescope is to be mounted in an
observatory upon Wilson Peak, of the
Sierra Madre Mountains, twelve or fif-
teen miles back of Los Angeles, Califor-
mia. The site is about 5000 feet above
sea level, and will be favored by an I'M
usually clear atmosphere
Paper and pulp making stands thir-
teenth among the siXty-three industries
of Wisconsin, and new plants to the
value of $243,775 were erected last year
NM
The scheme to connect Staten Island
and Long Island by tunnel under New
York Bay at the narrowcst point Of the
channel near the mouth of the Hudson.
is beginning to take definite shape. A
bill to authorize the construction of such
tunnel was introduced lately in Con
grcss, and referred to the Committee on
Commerce. The concern seeking the
franchise from Congress is the New
Jersey and Staten Island Junction Rail
road Company. The immediate point in
Wow is to give the trunk lines now cen
tering on the Jersey shore brooklyn
terminus.
Henry Schoenhals, foreman Henry
krug Packing CO., st. Joseph, Mo-, uses
Or. Thomas Eclectric Oil with his men
for sprains, cuts, bruises, chappcd hands,
etc. 1t is the best.
The secret art OF beauty lies not in
cosmetics, but is only in pure blood, and
a healthy performance of the vital func
tions. to be obtained by using l;urdocll
Blood Bittcrs.
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