The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1892-03-11
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

Glass coated brick, are announced
About 1900 years ago we entered the
epoch Of u more genial winter tempera-
ture. Sy
Common wheat bran, or any, kind of
mill feed isrecommendedfo for extinguish-
ing oil fires.
A reverse ofsseasons is supposed to
take place upon this earth once in every
10, 500 years. -
In his own laboratory: Mr.. Aitlken, cal.
culatcd 80, 900 900 of dust particles in a
cubic inch of air
Experiments with two straight edges,
separated at ono end by sheet of paper,
show chat light can be seen through a
clean.cut opening of not more than
LAO, 900 of an iuch.
In some German telephone offices an
electrically driven clock Is attached to
each telephone, which will work as long
as the telephone is off the hook, and
stops directly it is replaced.
Recent experiments have shown that
in the dog aud the cat, as we'll as in the
rabbit, the removal of more than three
fourths OF, the liver is not followed by
serious consequences, aud that the or
gan regains weight tslthiu thirty-six
days. teF
Vaccine virusha been cultivated by
. Russian physicinn, who finds that the
artifcially cultivated is as effective as tho
genuine product, while having the ad.
vantage OF absolute freedom from germs
of scrofula, tuberculosis or other dis
eases.
Mr.. Haly, Curator of the Colombo
Museum, has discovered that carbolized
gil is one of the most perfect preserva-
tivcs ot the colors of fish aud other AMI
NAL specimens. The most delicate frogs,
snakes aud geckoes retain their evanes-
cent tints when kept in it.
The first white enamel factory in the
United States will be located at Dubuque,
Iowa, and the plans for it have just been
received from Germany. The process OF
manufacturing these goods Is secret,
and that il may not be discovered the
building will be constructed without
doors and windows except those opening
| in an inner court.
A French pbysiologist reports an in-
teresting experiment in preventive inocu-
lation for consumption. About eight
months ago he inoculated two monkeys
with the tubercular bacilli of the fowl,
and after six mouths they showed no
signs of the disease. These animals aud
third were then inoculated with human
tubercle, with the result that those first
inoculatcd still continue well, while the
third died after few weeks.
1t has been decided to work the Liver.
pool (England) Elevated Railway by
electricity, using motor cars, instead Of
separate locomotives. The line is six
miles long, aud the generating station is
being erected near the middle Of the
railway. There ace several opening
bridges, and the structure is composed
entirely of iron aud steel, spanning for
the most the existing dock railway,
which will thus be lcft free for the goods
traffic OF the DOCKS, -
Forest-yegsfai Is much richer in
North America than ia Europe, and com
prises 4i2 species, Of waich 176'aro ma.
tive to the Atlantic region, 106 to the
! Pacific, ten are CON non to both, forty
six TO the Rocky Mountain region, and
seventy -four are tropical species near the
coasts of Florida, rs a,aiust 15S species
in Europe. Six North a ncricau specie,
OF forest trees the Judas tree, persim.
mon, blackberry, plane tree, hop horn.
beam and chestnut also indigeuou.
in Europe, all now growing there natur
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