Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1891-08-28
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
Flexible cast.iron is new.

Flexible cast.iron is new.
Paper wheels increase in popularity.
Freshly powdered charcoal is an ex-
cellent absorbent of foul gases.
A Pittsburg house will supply the ma
chinery for an iron works at Rio Janeiro,
Brazil.
The first overhead trolley road in Eng
land is to be built in Leeds by the
Thomson Houston company.
A mathematician has discovered that
bicycler can travel fifteen miles over
good road on his wheel with less exer-
ton than he can walk three miles.
A six horsepower electric motor will
operate the draw of the new Harvard
bridge at Boston. This is said to be the
first application of electricity to work of
this kind.
New York parties have been buying
wild marsh hay at jefferson, Wis, and
will experiment with it for the manufac-
ture of cheap but superior article OF
binding twine.
The band saw is fast superseding the
circular saw for all kinds of work. The
latest application is made by the tallors,
who are using 1t with great success for
cutting cloth.
A German professor has discovered a
curious gaseous compound, made up OF
oxygen and hydrogen. 1t dissolves
metals, and, with silver and mercury, it
forms powerful explosives.
A new idea in ratchet-drills is q tool
that will work in both directions, thus
saving one-half of the time consumed in
the use of the ordinary ratchets. The
mechanicism is very simple.
A number of private residences in
Boston have been fitted up with eleva-
tors operated by electric motors. The
elevators carry two or three passengers,
and the apparatus is said to be simple
and compact.
There are about 105 women to every
100 men, one quarter of the population
of the world die before the age of seven
teen years; only one in 1000 lives to be
100 years old, and only six in 1000
reach seventy-fve.
Excessive moisture of the hands Is O
disagreeable trouble for which the fol-
lowing is said to be remedy: Tine
ture of belladonna, half an ounce; eau de
cologne, four ounces. Rub it upon the
hands several times daily.
The death of Albert Hamm, the grea,
oarsman, at the age of thirty -one, revives
the question of the healthfuiness Of ath-
letics. Hamm's death was Tue result OF
hemorrhage of the lungs, and it is be-
lieved that overtraining caused it.
Slate is extensively used for electric
switch boards, and although it is liable
to fracture, yet an electric construction
company recently drilled II, 900 quarter
inch holes in a slab five-eigths of an inch
thick and containing but twenty-five
square feet of surface.
A Liverpool man has invented an cleo
trio organ with many novel features.
He does away with stop knobs, touch
of the button instantly putting the stop
in or out of operation. BY the action
of the .'transposing switch" the music
as it is being played may be transposed
to higher or lower key by the action of
the electric current.
The Government of SPAN has granted
to two merchants in Angola, Africa, the
exclusive privilege, for ten years, OF ex-
porting from the province of Angola a
new industrial product invented by them
and extracted from a common tubercule,
which has not yet been scientifically
classified for any industrial purpose.
The product is to be applied to the tan.
ming of hides.