The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1892-02-05
sorENflFIc AND INDUSTRIAL.


A cushion car wheel is new.
Petroleum. block fuel is successful.
Germany stands at the front in elec.
trical science.
German physicians report several cures
OF whoopipg cough by inoculation.
A naturalist says that of all animals
the horse has the acutest sense of hear
ing.
The largest known moth is the Giant
Atlas, a n3fiseuf China, the wings of
which meg aSle inches across.
y The eBng gjal 6Esthe BIanitou aud Pixies
Peak Railroad are reported to have sue.
cessfully used crude Colorado petroleum
for fuel.
|, There is very strong flow of natural
gas in the bed CT the river about three
miles from Ventura, CAL A lighted
match will set fire to space six or eight
feet in diameter.
A careful examination of the aqueous
humor of the eyes of cattle will determine
whether they are suffering from tubercle
or not. The bacilli will be found there
ipsall cases where the disease exists.
"rhe word knot, signifying certain
distance over water, is one -sixtieth of u
mean degree of the carth's meridian,
which in figures is I, ,076, ,S1S feet, 2025. 6
yards, or one mile and $3.50 yards.
new railway is projected on which,
instead of trains, single cars of great
length will be propelled by electricity
supplied to them through the rails. The
20 hn aft ftos, -, L.
miles per hour.
In order to prevent the accidents that
so often ncenc when ife.boats are
lowered from the sides of ship there
has been invented a raft that supports
the boat, and from which it is launched
upon reaching the water.
Many savage tribes constantly use
without harm the flesh Of animals killed
with poisoned weapons; and in recent
Investigations with ANIMALS killed by
various poisons-such rs strychuine,
tartarized antimony and eserinc the
flesh was found to be of uuimpaired
flavor and to produce no i'll effects.
Professor r. l.. Garner, the prominent
scientist of Washington, who has been
in consultation with Paul du Chaillu.
the African traveller, in regard to his
proposed trip to study the languages of
monkeys, has entered into negotiations
with Woodworking manufacturers at
Philadelphia for the construction of the
cage to be used in Africa.
In new method Of hardening plaster
OF paris, communicated to the French
Academy of Sciences, the plaster is
mixed with one-sixta Of its weight of
fine, freshly slakea lime, and used with
as little water as possible. When thor
oughly dry, it is treated with solution
OF either zinc sulphate or iron sulphate
With the first, the color remains white
while the second, by gradual oxidation,
yields the color of lion rust.
DIR. Marcy, the eminent French phys
iologist, has been studying the flight oil
insects by Interchangeable, tie ap
paratus used to obtain photograph.
allowing exposures to be made so shor
as 1-2o, 600 OF a second. His observa
tions indicate that tho wings of insect
in flight, by meeting obiiquely the re
sistance of the air in to-and fro move
mcnss, act in very similar manner t,
the sculls used to propel boats.
A method of recovering the gold aut
silver waste of Photographic processe,
consists of suspending in the liquids
containing the metals in solution a plat,
of carbon attached to the positive pole o
battery and a ZINC plate connected
with the negative pole, the two beina
separated by about an inch and a half
The closing of the circuit causes The
metal to be precipitated to the bottom OF
the solution III the form of hlacl
deposit. which is dried and reclaimed il
the form of metal by melting in cru
cible.