The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1892-06-24
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

Canes are now made Of paper pulp.
Red hot irons touched to the Aesh, q
Berlin physicisn argues, will cure hys-
terra.
A newly patented device makes the
load of car vary the leverage Of the
brakes.
An atlas Of the sky is now under way.
II is a stupendous undertaking and will
require years to complete.
Professor Smith, of Rochester, N. T.,
thinks that the latest arrived comet has
been 5000, 600 years IN getting here.
Boiler scale is used as material for
cement floors in the Santa Fe shops at
Topeka, Kan. With good rammiug and
pudding 1t makes a good floor.
According to tho Hatch Experimental
Station Of Massachusetts, electricity ap.
piled to the roots Of plants gives more
satisfactory results than when applied
above.
The lates. kind Of lock for nuts on
railroads, machinery or other places is
formed of an elastic nOn-netallic wash
or, to be placed on tho threaded end Of
the bolt.
1t is confidently expected that long
distance telephones will be in working
order between the Columbian Exhibi-
ton grounds, Chicago, and New York
and Boston.
Mr.. Kite, in his system Of ventilation,
employs jet of water at service pres
in, hn
Of Greek cross, for inducing the air
current. These jets may be upward,
downward or horizontal.
The necessary equipment for six miles
OF electric tramway is now on its way
from this country to Siam. Six genera.
tors, two complete steam plants, twenty
car equipments aud extra parts to last
for six months make up the order. The
road is to be installed in Bangkok, and
will be tho first electric tranway in
Siam.
Electricity has now been applied to
stone carving-the blow being struck by
means of Carstarphen's electrical recip-
rocating tool. With this machine tho
stonecuttcr or tho sculptor can devote
his entire attention to the lines his iu-
strument is to follow, while doing the
work more rapidly than by his own mus.
cular power.
A magnificent specimen of the hama
dryad, or king cobra, twelve and half
feet long, has been shot in tree few
miles from Castle Rock, Iudia, on tho
Southern Mahratta Railway, and the skin
has been sent to the Bombay Natural
History Society. The existence of this
been known very long.
A Kansas City paper says that there is
a boulder in the Ozarks which will at
tract jack-knife dropped nino feet
away, aud that along the line Of the fifth
principal meridian, in the counties Of
Carter, Reynolds, Iron aud Washington,
the lines OF cast and west surveys arc de-
tected from the true course several do
grees, the needle being arected by de-
posits of loadstone.
A new case Of mimicry, observed by
Siard, is reported. One is Il saw-hy
and the other is fy. When both in
sccts are quiet, they resemble each other
perfectly in color and patterns, and as
the saw fly is protected Dy its unpleasant
smell from the beaks Of birds, it is prob
able that the fly is mistaken for it by
birds on account Of the bad taste of the
insect it resembles.
Tho largest machine now in use foI
saving stone can deal with blocks three
feet one inch high by eight feet three
inches lons and six feet six inches wide.
The SAW Of this machine is seven feet
three inches in diameter and is a steel
plate mounted on a screw spindle, along
which it can be shifted by means Of
large nuts 50 rs to vary its position for Il
cut in any desire | place. The rim Of
the saw is ,tu.l lc | with Diamond.
Ell \. Babcock, of North Stonington,
Conn. whiIc crossing his rocky farm met
an odd and brilliant looking snake of n
species That was suppose to be extinct
in Connecticut, and after lively chase
Ncaptuied it. 1t is u little fellow not half
grown and is black, except that a broad
golden band cncirc.cs its neck. 1t be-
longs to tirn golden band racer species,
which grows to be ten or fifteen feet
long and are swift arl fcrociOuS.