Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1891-10-23
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

Bottles are made by machinery.
Bethlehem, Penn, has the biggest
hammer.
Chicago is about to add to its attrac.
tions steel chimney, $50 feet high.
Electricity is now being made to serve
for use of headlights on locomotives.
Eye blinds and dark stables are said
to be the greatest cause of blindness in
| horses.
A locomotive is running on the Chi
cago and Alton road which consumes its
| own smoke.
1t has been calculated that 100 laying
hens produce in egg shells about 1877
pounds of chalk and limestone annua lily
Henry Curtis Spalding claims that the
Mea which Greathead utilized in his pat
ents for tunneling really originated in
| America.
A French amateur photographer has
mounted a camera on a kite, and gets
remarkably clear views from height of
100 to $50 feet.
Papier mache oil cans which are now
being made are very durable, and i'm
| pervious to any spirit or oil likely to be
used in machine room.
An expert electrician asserts that an
| electric train making 125 miles an hour
would require 1000 feet in which to
come to standstill.
A physician in Cracow,, Poland, has
made some remarkable cures of cancer
| Its ingredients have not been made pub
! lie.
An English physician, DR.. Lennox
Wainwright, affirms that a mixture of
menthol and carbonate of ammonia
has proven to be the best remedy for hay
fever. 1t is used as smelling salts.
Steel is now being used in the IN
struction of large chimneys. It's wei hit
| is about one third that of brick struc-
ture of the same conducting power, and
much economy in space is secured.
A hotel in Hamburg has been built
entirely of compressed wood, which, by
the pressure to which it is subjected, it
is rendered as hard as iron, as we'll as
absolutely proof against the attacks of
fire.
A light and compact form of rolled
steel or iron columns has been placed on
the market. They consist of two /
beams bent longitudinally at right au-
giles and bolted together with small
beam between them.
The high price of coal on Mexican
railways has resulted in the adoption of
q novel type of compound engine and
locomotive, and consequent saving of
twenty-five per cent. in coal is obtained
with only slight increase in weight
Delicate electromagnetic are now sue
cessfully used in optical surgery for the
removal of pieces of iron or steel which
have entered the eye. The attractive
power of the magnet causes such par
ticles to be drawn to it, and they adhere
when the magnet is drawn.
The largest gasometer in the world
is now being built for London com.
pany. Its diameter will be 300 feet, and
the height $50 feet. It's capacity will
be 12,000,0 900 cubic feet and weight
2220 tons. 1t will take 1900 tons of
Goa! to fill it with gas.
The use of the search light on naval
vessels when on blockade duty is being
severely criticised, rs it has been shown
that they serve to show the position of
vessel when she would otherwise be
invisible, thus making an attack with
torpedo boats possible.
A novel idea in the running of street
cars is that recently suggested and tried
near Richmond, Va. Eight heavy
springs are used, which are connected to
the axles by suitable gearing. A wind
ing engine will be built at the euds of
the lines, which is four miles long.
Some of the monstrous cranes used in
the Baldwin locomotive works at Phila-
delphia lift big locomotive as easily as
mother does baby. Each of them
saves the labor of $50 men and does
away with the necessity of having COM
plicated system of tracks for shifting the
locomotives.
A late invention, the cushion car
wheel, is described as being thick rub
Der band placed between the tire and
centre of the wheel, and which acts as a
cushion, absorbing all vibrations. The
rubber is so attached as to make any
danger from a hot box or from corrosive
action an impro- ability.
A new Swedish glass is claimed to
have important advantage for microscope
and other fine lenses, giving greatly in
creased power. The chief improvements
over other fine glass consists in the addi-
ton of phosphate and chlorine, which
impart absolute transparency, great hard
ness and suspectibility of the finest pol
ish.