Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1891-05-30
Notes ofInterest.

has been established in Iceland and is
as a great curiosity, being
the first ever established on the IS
land
Recent investigation into the curl
Gus question of the use OF an annular
drill by the ancients leads to the con
clusion that jewel points were used in
both drilling and saving.
The latest article to be manufacture
ed from corn is soap, Experiments
have shown that a bushel Of corn,
with the proper amount of alkali,
will make 200 pounds OF soap.
An electric street railway car can
be heated by the expenditure Of one
horsepower electrical energy. There
is no dust, no cinders, and no room |
taken from the seating accommoda-
tions.
Among the latest disinfectants is
.lysol,n which appears to be very
much like carbolic acid. The emulsi-
flying agent is resin or fat soap, tar
acid being incorporated with the soap
at the moment OF saponification.
Blacksmiths viii be apt to viewwith
alarm the introduction OF paper
horseshoes Just approved for use in
the German Army. They are made OF
layers OF compressed parchment, ce-
mented with a preparation OF turpen-
tine, Spanish white, lac, and boiled
linseed oil. The separate layers are
stamped out, cemented, and console
/ dated by ahydraulic press. hendry
4 the shoe is rasped to fit each horse.
An old soldier Of the Massachusetts,
Thirty-fifth Regiment gives the follow
| ing advice regarding cold feet; cat one
time while ] was stamping upon the
ground. in the effort to warm my ex-
tremities. a comrade in the same regl-
ment said to me, III your feet are cold
try this He raised his foot from the
ground. and struck some light blows
with his hand on the upper part Of ms
leg. lust above the knee. did the
same with both legs, and instantane'
ouslv felt a flow of warm blood cours'
ing downward, and the feet soon be
came comfortably warm.
Japan has over 1000 electric
lights. The Toxic electric light com
many has four stations, with capari
ty for supplying nearly that number
ri lamps. while there are other largi
plants at Kioto, Kobe, Asaka ant
Nagoza.
The nest OF the hornet is the frs
article of paper manufacture tina
ever saw the light OF day. The nor
net takes the wood of a tree, grlnds
assiduously into pulp, and form
sheets of paper, out OF which ne con
structs his nest.
A practical mechanic informs tn
Manufacturers Gazette that he ha
tested a sample Of what was said t
, he aluminium, recently, which proye
: under manipulation to be fully 25 pc
conf antimony, which is about Il
san,e color but which Immediately d
I n,;nisbes the ductility of ALUMINIUM
= and renders it much harder and niue
: lsss valuable. Buyers and consumer
!. III aluminium should be on the lookoI
Y fnr such mixtures, as the antlmony
? ~ no nossible value nconnectlon wit
I tbe aluminium, and very much lesser
: the value of the latter for many pu
i poses in the arts.
ig A novel fly-wheel is thus describe
o nv n mechanical journal: The hub
7 cast iron. and in the place of spok
& two disks built ofsteel plates are bo
4. od "a the hub. The wheel so made
r about 90 feet in diameter, and aroul
$, tLe rim 10 tons of steel wire are woun
Of oacb strand being under q tension
Sc 50 hounds. The strength OF such
e structure is immensely greater tn
lg tbat az mn ordinary cast-iron wheel
tie fact II is difficult to imagine such
in ,,l bursting. The outer tibers
Id M wire rim would probably pc
a frst and thus give warning OF !
m n aari danger. At all events, T
ng ,,articnlar wheel, 20 feet in diame'
&C. and weighing 70tons, is run at a spt
ty ~ $40 revolutions a minute, so IL
re the RIM travels a mile every Il $
y onds.
A great feat in metal working
eor,line to the American Manufaet
re- or was recently accomplished at
nd superior mill at Allegheny Pa.
DIS foot consists OF rolling a strip OF 81
M Tor Sor 4 spring six inches wide, one-qu
IA Tor az an inch thick, and $40 feet lo
=, =. This work was successfully pertorl1
mt and the spring properly tempered
re The first effort. That estabiishm
in has since received n large order
~. smch springs, which are designed to
~ ter into the construction OF a new
'ry motor, for which a great deman
,a ~ anticipated. The order had previ'
, w. heen rendered to all the large
ael SI;sh and continental works OF Eur'
,as none of which would undertake t'
md it