Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-03-11
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL
Electric elevators increase.
There's an electric hammer.

GieCCf1C eleVaUOFS luCrtdSes
There's an electric hammer.
Recent experiments have shown that
liquid oxygen is magnetic.
Steam locomotives are to be tried on
the Chicago Qll.) street lines.
The best isinglass dissolves completely
in hot water, leaving no visible residuum.
The jeweler has drills so small that
they can bore hole only one-thousandth
of an inch in diameter through pre-
cious stone.
The globular brass lantern, hitherto in
use for military service purposes, is to
be superseded by folding lantern for
use in tents.
There is a new sanitarium in the Rivi-
era of Italy for the inhalation of ozone
for the cure of most weaknesses, particu-
larly tuberculosis.
The best material for hardening and
temperlng malleable iron and steel goods
is said to be leather cinders, made by
burning waste leather.
Children are not numerous in France.
Out of 10000, 600 families in the Re-
public one-6fth have no children at all
and another fifth have one child each.
The star Sirius, which is shown to be
about double the size of our sun, emits
from forty to sixty fold more light than
| the sun. owing to its matter being much
more diffused.
Recent explorations in the district of
| Sonora, Mexico, show that the coal de-
posits in the San Marcial Valley will
amount to fully $4,000, 900, 900 tons and
it is of excellent quality.
DIR. Koch's lymph, according to the
results of the experiments communicated
to the last meeting of the Berlin Ger
many Society for Internal Medicine,
seems to have proved untrustwoIty, even
as means of diagnosis for tuberculosis.
A French inventor has attached tiny
incandescent lamp to an ordinary pencil
for use by reporters and others having
to take notes at night. The light is not
affected by rain or wind. The battery
is carried in the pocket, the wires pass
ing down the sleeve.
A novel method of testing the condition
| of horses feet is to attach one termi-
nal of light battery to the bit and the
other to the shoe. If the foot is i'm
properly penetrated by the nails the ami
NAL will squirm under the test, but will
| give no token if there is no irritation.
The natives of Madagascar formerly
followed the moon in determining time,
but since the influx of missionaries the
| Queen issued an edict that the Christian
year should be followed. But in COM
mencing the year the first year the date
of the first day was set some time in
October and November.
The red color of the markings on
Jupiter is believed by Mr.. Barnard, the
eminent astronomer, to be an indication
of their age, the spots or markings (other
than the white spots) being dark or
black on first appearances, but afterward
becoming red. The great red spot seems
to be no exception to the rule.
The success of the existing electric
railway in London, England, has given
an impetus to the movement for loco
motion of a similar kind. For considera-
ton during the forthcoming session Of
Parliament there ale no fewer than five
bills which propose either the construc-
tion of new electric railways or the ex
tension of lines already authorized.
A Colorado man has devised an cleo
trical machine that successfully operates
in placer deposits of gold that could not
be protitably worked by the sluice
methods. The .thod employed for
saving the gold is It of collecting it
by means of the electric current, so that
it forms an amalgam from which the
precious metal may be easily separated.