The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-11-27
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
ermmy leads in paper-mills.

Germany leads IN paper mills.
Coffee mills are run by electricity.
The experiment. is about to be tried
in Chiago of running double -decked
street tars.
A street railway system, to be operated
by compressed air, is to be inaugurated
in LeavenwOrth, Kan. The power will
also be applied to factories.
The phSucsfaph has been applied to
the teleHNeSso that any conversation
coming oyeiS SSft wires during the day
may be readf y reproduced.
Phosphorus is now being made by
decomposinA mixture of acid phos-
pilates and 1arbon by the heat of an
electric arc Within the mass.
The latest Innovation in car decora-
tion is a nlw material called "sili.
chrome. can be used also for depot
or other intefor decoration.
On the eattern frontier of the "Dark
Continent" cpal is so plentiful that by
lifting shoielful of clay off any particu-
lar spot 1t hay be reached. But there
is no means bf transporting it to market.
The rangsof naval guns is roughly one
mile for every inch of calibre fol guns
less than ten inches, but last year 90
inch breechloadiug rifle attained
range of twelve miles. The pneumatic
gun has fireda dummy shell two miles
and half.
is said that the local steam trains
between 81. p5ul aud Minneapolis have
all been tsken off, being unable to>com.
pete with the electric road, which is
running trips every eight minutes, and
is expected soon to change to five minute
schedule.
About twice. as much energy is re-
quircd to stop a moving object as to
start it. In order to relieve its horses of
great deal Of work, the London Gen
erai Omaibas Company has adopted an
ingenious device by which springs are
wound up when the omnibus stops. The
amount of energy which is thus stored up
In the springs is utilized for starting the
vehicle again.
A snokeless powder has been prepared
at the Newport Or. ~ Torpedo Station
which is credited with having given
rifle bullet the astounding velocity OF
$3.50 feet per second. Moreover, it is
stated that at distance of 500 yards the
report Of tne gun xas not heard nor was
any no!sf visible. Gun cotton pulp is
reborrea hnt;srn Sc zvrde p5wder,
but the eo5 pr ingredients and their ma.
nipulationNre Government secret.
A lake lASs wonderfully tempering
effect op theSclimate. Thus. according
to M, Farcl, the quantity of heat accu
mulated in the Lake Of Geneva, Switzer.
land, during the summer Of 1889 WAS
equal to that given OF by the combustion
of 81 ,000,000 tons of coal, or the amount
carried bya coal train 1923 miles in
length. The greater part of the hea. is
discharged into the air OF the valley dur-
ing the colo season, thus producing a
mider temperature in autumn and win.
ter.
DR.. Brown Sequard in one OF his lee.
lures dwells with great emphasis on the
importance of general knowledge in the
matter of checking coughing and sneez.
ing. He eastsites that coughing can be
stopped by pressing the nerves of the
lips iu the neighborhood of the nose,
and sneezaIs2y be stopped the same
the eax, or rIs az En front OF tio ear, may
sto:j coughing. It is so also Of hiccolgh.
ing, bat much less so thau for sncezing
or coughing. Pressing very hard on the
roof of the mouth is also means Of ar
resting cough, ard the will Itself i
often TO una to be a wonderful preventive