St. Landry democrat., 1892-01-02
POPULAR SCIENCE,

An electric type setting machine
coming.
Brussels, Belgium, will build an Gle
waited cable road.
The pulse beats considerably faster il
women than in men.
Electricity is now used in heating fat
irons used in tailor shops.
Eight and half minutes is the time
that light takes to travel from the sun tc
the earth.
Russia is experimenting very extern
sively with the idea of using metal sleep
ers upon the railroads in that country.
A temperature of 220 degrees below
zero has been produced by bath of car
bon bisulphide and liquid nitrous acid
Papier alache oil cans which are nov
being made are very durable and imper-
vlous to any spirit or oil likely to be
used in a machine room.
Cattle breeders of the Western plains
have decided to prevent the growth of
horns by killing the bulbs with caustic
potash when the calves are three DAYS
old
A Massachusetts inventor has devised
a double-hulled ship, with compartments
so arranged and constructed that it sup
plies, he asserts, mathematical certain.
ty against sinking.
The powerful chloro chronic battery
is now used in miners lamps IN France.
The lamp and battery weigh about the
same as the old oil lamps. The light is
much stronger and the cost is very mod
crate.
The utilization of the power produced
by the ebb and flow of the tides has been
made in Havre, France, to work turbine
wheels which generate the power nece.-
sary to run the dynamos which furnish
Paris with the electric light.
fit were possible for man to construct
globe 800 feet in diameter, and to place
upon any part of It's surface an atom
1880 inch in diameter and 1870 inch
in height, it would correctly denote the
proportion man bears to the earth upon
which he stands.
A New York mao has invented Abb.
stitute for the car strap. tt is nicEzlc-
plated cylinder containing strong
spring, to which is attached a handle.
When taken hold of the spring comes
down about ten inches, and when re-
leased it flies out of the way.
The new transatlantic steamers which
are building by the Cuuard Line are to
sea speed of twenty one knots
per hour. An offer OF an English COM
pany guaranteed twenty-five and half
knots per hour, but was refused, owing
to the scanty space offered for first. cabin
passengers.
The plan to lay a cable from America
to Asia by way of the Aleutian Islands
and Alaskan route has met with serious
setback in the discovery of an extraordin-
Try depth of water off the northeastern
coast of Japan. So deep is the water
there that the sinking of the cable is an
obvious impossibility.
A late invention, the cushion car
wheel, is described as being thick rub
Der band placed between the tire and
centre of the wheel and which acts as a
cushion, absorbing all vibrations. The
ubber is so attached as to make any
LANCER from q hot box or from corrosive
'ction an improbability.
The systematic replanting of the Ma
egan forests is urged or gutta percha-
will disappear. Fifty years ago gutta
'ercha was unknown in Europe. Now
he annual consumption amounts to A.
100, 900 pounds, with constantly in
reaslng demand, and the trees where it
5 obtained in the East Indies cover a
cry limited area and are being rapidly
Ised up.