The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-12-30
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Sleep is the greateafat inducer.
The mann ia said 81 MOVE 3333 feet

The moon is said t. move 1888 feet
per second.
For every foot of sature a man should
weigh twenty-six ponds.
It Is said that the hst walking pace Is
seventy-fve STEPS perminute.
Doctors say a healthy adult should eat
at least ten ounces d meat each day.
A Rhode Island nan has invented a
device for neasuringcloth on the loom.
The average heigt of clouds above
the earth is between me and two miles.
A Canadian has inented a centrifugal
extractor for honey. It leaves the COMB
clean and intact.
Four pounds of pld have been col.
lected from the 500 Of the chimney OF
the Royal Mint in Brlin, Germany.
A French invento named Picard has
achieved successful esults with simulta-
neous telephony al telegraphy along
the same wire.
Edison is at worlpn a phonograph for
the use of blind CHILDREN, that shall do
away with the raisd letter books hither.
to used in their instuction.
Electric headlights of about $500 can
die power are now :ngeneral use on the
railroads in Indiana They are very fav-
orably spoken of b! Engineers.
Crude petroleum hs been tried as fuel
in brick manufactur, showing a saving
of fully one-half the price of coal fuel,
to say nothing of tb saving OF labor in
firing.
A new lead-heade nail for putting on
corrugated roof ha made its appear
ance in London larkets. The head
Aattens under the bw of the hammer
and thus prevents hiking.
The alcohol procs of obtaining sugar
from cane syrup harevolutionized sugar
making from that PURGE. The process
is very simple, andt is said that but one
per cent. of the alhol used is lost.
A new applicable of electric motors is
for supplying by eans Of fans draught
for chlmneys wher very high buildings
are built adjoininGow ones. Such an
arrangement is j successful operation
in Boston.
A good cemeutio fasten glass letters
upon glass windos, etc., consists of one
part India rubberthree parts mastic,a and
fifty parts chlorofm. Let the mixture
stand several dayin a closed vessel and
apply rapidly.
An oilless spdle-bearing has been
invented by a Massachusetts, man. 1t is
made of wood chnically treated, and it
is said that in a st one spindle ran sew
enty-six days of N hours each, without
heating or percetible wear.
A man in NepHampshire has invent
ed a device for wing a smooth surface
to bobbins. It insists of a facing or
tube which is dwn over the bobbin,
thus making it pctically indestructible.
The facing, it isaid, can be attached to
any bobbin.
The heat. connecting qualities of the
metals range a follows: Silver, 100;
copper, 1880; old, $3.50; annealed
aluminium, 49, 81 unannealed aluminium,
81 1886; tin, AZ; iron, 11.6O; steel,
11.60; lead, 81; platinum, $50; bis
muth, 1.S0.
Astronomers recently observed, by
photography, a ,lar disturbance lasting
fifteen minutes, | which vapors assembled
to a distance ,of0, 1000 miles. The COM
pass needle wasensibly affected, and the
effect was to I've been caused by q
meteor strikinghe SUM-.
The hot.watt boxes are to be taken
out of the Freh railway carriages, and
warmth is to coe from boxes filled with
acetate of sod; The boxes are filled
with soda in sod state, which is liqui-
fed by being uuged into hot water.
As it solidi6es, which takes five or six
hours, it steadi gives out heat.
On the estate of the Marquis do La
Laguna, in sam, a water-wheel OF
twenty. horse ower runs a dynamo.
Flowing by elGricity has been proposed,
and the currents to be transmitted to u
field three nib distant, where a motor
on a pillow is to be operated. The cable
to be attachedo the pillow is to be WOUND
on q reel and lawn over the field.