The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-06-13
POPULAR SCIENCE.

new cigar case that also extinguishes
and saves up half-smoked cigar wisls
out letting the stencil escape is out.
Among the marvels at convention 81
the American Electric Light AssOciation
at Kansas City was machine to weigh
sunshine.
Vegetable flannel is textile material
now being largely manufactured in Ger
many out of pine leaves. The fibre is
spun, knitted aud woven into clothing ,,f
various kinds.
1t costs more to run electric or steIs
cars rapidly than it does to run them
moderate speed. When the publiSl
content to go slowly there will b
danger and fewer accidents. q Mare
An English naval officer has ifamily
pneumatic line-throwing,
light and portable, which
shell, bearing the cord to ummer ste
sci, or into burning bull line 81
land - ~
smut can be effectually -sffARD Bro
oats by soaking them il
perature of 1872 degrelemohs, eS
utes. This is cOnsideill kinds
copperas water. %Erro> &
A recently degisee- =, =
sisstisg the pssiiy .ofJn arrived
put 2 drop 81 = solutiicaeo Vi
Of potash in a glass - 2 -. - 81
becomes yellow, it IS Z se ears
remains clear 1t may Isi50ffs 81
1t IS proposed DO
Paris to water the sfreaz
fectant mixture-with vtpef ce
erful antiseptic natter You "
They are tired waiting; fail to ses
scopists to discover the IN & MO
and mean to get rid of
best they may. hacks
It has long been knowles of any
R Tisos tbe further Ul %' DOWN one on cos
cent observations made inaefore V;
over mile deep at Schladel ono,
many. have shown that the IA
crease of temperate in descendilbALLAk
degree Fahrenheit for every 50
feet -
1t has been observed that the inf snzs
epidemic in Sweden seem more 70 fol-
low the channels of communication shan
the atmospheric currents. Beginning in
Stockholm, it followed the railway hpes
to the larger towns, afterward Spreading
to smaller towns and country place, and
last of all reaching the isolated and re-
mote Norrland.
Tannin cannot be too highly rscosn-
mended as an application to burns, es-
pecially when very extensive, the skin
being entirely removed. A five per
cent. solution is squeezed from a sponge
over the denuded surface, which IS then
dressed with some soft ointment, either
with or without taunin. Pain imme-
diately abates, and the healing process is
wonderfully rapid.
1t is said by experts that the most la
borious as well as the most regular mining
for gems is done by the ants in Arizona
and Colorado. Either because the ants
want the pebbles as an outer covering for
their hills or because they object to them
inside they frequently make about their
dwellings a glittering spread of stones of
all sorts, among them amethysts, topazes
and other valuable jewels.
Carl Hess, the German naturalist, has
proved by minute microscopical inyesti7
CATION thst tae eye Of the mole is per-
fectly capable Of seeing, and that il i
not short-siehted, as another rftufalist
tKadTD would have US believf. Hess
maintains tiiaf, IN spite Of its minute d.
mensioDs-one millimetre By 90 mill
metre-the eye of this little creature
possesses all the necessary properties for
seeing that the most highly-developed
eye does.
For hardening metals, a powder has
lately been introduced which is made as
follows: After extracting the color from
the cochineal insect, 100 parts of the
residue are mixed with 202t parts of
phosphoric acid with sufficient nitrogen
GUS organic substance to give 324 parts
of nitrogen; the mixture is then evapor-
ated, dried, and fifty parts of SCOT added.
Sheet iron may be hardened BY heating
in contact with this powder in hsrmetic-
ally closed boxes.