Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-09-05
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

DR.. j. Brendon Curgenven has sue
cessfully cured scarlet fever by inunc.
ton of eucalyptus oil, in combination
with other essential oils and camphors.
He finds that this treatment shortens
the duration of the fever and rapidly
destroys the contagious character of the
disease. yl8
"A recent consensus taken of the
opinions of superintendent of several
large shops is to the effect that there is
no end to the want of first-class me-
chanics who can understand and work
from simple mechanical drawings. The
compound school and shop-bred me-
chanic is rapidly leading the field.
The railroads in Australia are all
built by the government. Their cost at
first-about thirty years ago--was $780,
900 per mile for double line, exclusive
of rolling stock At a later period single
line roads were built for S5O,OOO and
still later, down to the present time,
for $50, 900 mile. The standard gauge
is feet, inches.
"A prominent lumberman of Seattle
| says that timber in the northwest is
hardly considered merchantable if it
goes under $4,000 feet to the acre, while
it is very common occurrence to find
timber that will go 10000 feet to the
acre. He recounts sale of forty
acre tract of timber that went 3OO 900
feet to the acre.-Cincinnati CONNER
cial Gazette.
The addition of aluminium to mott.
en- steel before pouring an ingot has
been found to render the metal per-
fectly sound when cast. The action
seems to be entirely chemical, snd is
about twenty times more powerful
than that of silicon. The amount used
is from four to eight ounces ton, and
when used manganese can be dispensed
with.
The amount of phosphorus consumed
per annum is about two thousand tons,
and is chiefly used in match making.
Hitherto chemicals were used in it's man.
ufacture, but by recent improvement
the raw material and coke are placed in
specially-prepare furnace and elec-
trio heat is applied. The vapor arising
is condensed, and marketable phos-
phorus is produced.
Hail storms do not occur in we'll
wooded districts, according to the OBJ
servations of noted Swiss forester.
In evidence of this he points out that a
district formerly exempt from such
storms has been visited by very fierce
ones since gaps We're made in the for.
ests, and that upon replanting the
. cleared ground with frs the storms
ceased entirely
The water of Niagara furnishes
power at cost of five dollars per horse.
power per year for a twenty -four hour
daily run. This is through turbines
, under a siXty-foot head. The new plan
of utilization will give head of one
| hundred and twenty feet and produce
, total power of 100000 horse, equal to
the aggregate of the fourteen most prom.
, inent water-power centers in the coun-
. try.
| Waste sawdust and shavings are
j being utilized by Mons. Claimant, OF
Paris, France, for the production of fine
/ vegetable charcoal, which is intended
! to be used for the removal of the un
. pleasant flavor in the common French
, wines, and as flltering medium in dis
tilleries, where it is said to be capable
, Of filtering forty times its volume o.
, alcohol, whereas the ordinary vegetable
: charcoal of commerce filters less anC
costs very much more.
"A commercial company has fo
some time been working. quarries n
the neighborhood of the well-knowI
glacial grooves at Kelley Island
, Ohio, and it was feared that thes
remarkable relics of the glacial epocl
might be wholly destroyed For
;unately the president of the compan.
. understands the interest of the phe
nomena, and has taken care to proven
! the most striking of them from beinl
/. injured. Some of the grooves hav
now been rendered safe, the company
!. At its recent annual meeting, having de
/, cided that the rocks on which they ar
!. furrowed should be made over to tn
$ president, by whom they will be trans
n ferred to scientific or historical sc
o ciety, "to be preserved in perpetuity TO
q The benefit of science"
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