The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-02-21
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

Louisiana is becoming a very inn.
portant sugar and lumber State.
The boy bakers in San Francisco's
industrial school make bread for all tho
public institutions.
"A meteorological station is to be es-
tablished at Tiberias, Palestine. which
is 6S2 feet below the level of the Medit.
erranean.
M. Beauregard, an eminent Egypt
ologist, believes that Egypt at the time
of the Pharaohs exhibited the mixed con-
dition of combining the use of flint i'm
plements with acquaintance with the
means of extracting copper and blend
ing it with other metal
"A new textile material, called yeoe
table flannel, is now being manufactured
in Germany, out of pine leaves. The
fiber, somewhat resembling hemp, is
spun, knitted and woven into under.
garments, blankets and clothing of
various kinds. This fabric is said te
keep the body warm without heating.
aAd is exceedingly cheap and durable.
In observations with kites and bal
looms, Prof. Leonhard Weber has found
that the atmosphere is negatively cleo
trifed up to a height of about one hun
dred yards, beyond which it is positively
electrified in a degree increasing very
rapidly with the distance from the earth
The negative identification of the lowe,
strata of the air is attributed to the
presence of germs and dust PARTICLES.
The authorities say that the dura
ton of lightning flash is not infnitesi
NAL, but that the flash lasts a measure
BILE time. For example, if one sets q
camera in rapid vibration and exposes
in it plate so as to receive the impress
sion of the flash, it is found that the i'm.
pressions appear widened out on the
negative, showing the negative to have
moved during the time the flash was in
existence.
- notice." said prominent brick
maker to Detroit Free Press reporter.
that there is now being in Introduced into
this country the famous Swiss patent fol
making iron-clad brick 'Iron-clad
brick?" eyes, sir. That is to saw, the
clay is mixed with certain amount OF
iron ore and burned under certain re.
quirements of temperature, in a pecu.
liarly made kiln, etc. The result is
something startling. Such brick are un.
surpassed even by stone itself. For paw.
ing they are simply unapproachable.
hope to see our Detroit manufacturers
take hold of this thing
One of the industries now followed
in London, and certainly novel and re-
markable one, even for this age, is that
of separating and storing oxygen from
the atmosphere. This interesting pro.
cess has unique application in the ma.
turing of spirits and in improving the
quality of beer, and, though this is fa1
from being the only application which
is made of pure oxygen, it is one which,
for various reasons, has excited most at
tention, especially in that department
of trade, on account of it's financial bear
ings. 1t is claimed that the oxygen, in
its contact with spirits, actually accom-
plishes in few days what, if left to the
natural and 'asss@sal process, requires
period of from three tuffye years. The
oxygen, it is said, gets rid of the fusel
oil quickly, thus relieving the liquid OF
its most injurious property, and not only
this, but a maturer effect is also pro-
duced on beer by admixture with oxy.
gen.