The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1892-02-19
scIENoE - LNpusrRY.

1t is not generally known that the
light of the sun and the moon exercise /
a deIeterious effect on edge tools
Knives, drills. scythes and Eickles as
sumo q blue color If they are exposed
for some time to the light and heat of
the SUM the sharp edge disappears and
the tool is rendered absolutely useless
until it IS rctempe-cd
On the estate Of the Marquis de Ia
LaFuua, in Spain, water wheel OF
twcuty-horse power runs dynamo
Flowing by electricity has been propuz-
ed, and the current is TO be transmitted
to a field three miles distant, where a
motor ON a pillow is to be operated. The
cable TO be attached TO the pillow is to be
wound on a reel and drawn over the
field.
Cyclones of grand dimensions are
generated in the zones where the trade
wind of She opposite hemisphere peue-
trates They are caused by an aug
meutEtiOH or swelling in volume OF air,
proceeding from the opposite hemi-
sphere, attending unequal distribution
Of the normal limits of the atmospheric
circulation, and determined by the re-
taEdatiou which the trade wind or mon
soon meets with in following the suns
movement
Professor Won PsttenlEOfer has been
studying the Iser River, which flows
through Munich, carrying the city's
sewage. He says that Eve miles below
the city there is not a trace of the pol
luton which Euds IFS way into the river.
Some Observers have thought that the
| Eelf-purihcuLiou of rivers is due 20 de
position of sediment DR.. Won Petteu-
[ lzofsr, however, maintains that the real
agent at work iu purifying the Iser
River is the Oxygen of the air which is
| absorbed by or dissolved in the water,
/ "A course of'eEpcriments continued
] through several years, in Germany, mas
/ resulted in producing "a breed Of silk
/ worms that eat satisfy and thrive on il
! IS well as other breeds thrive on the
! white mulberry. This viii enable the
! Germans 20 enter prohtubly upon silk
( culture. AS the climate of our eastern
and middle states is about the same as
| that of central and south Germany,
| American agr.culturists can avail them
selves of the result of these expert
| ments.
-Raisiu raising and pruue growing
/ are two comparatively new industries iE
| California that are attaining very large
! PROPORTIONS. and the domestic products
have almost driven the foreign goods
FROM ouE markets During nine months
] ending Septam Der So 1891, only 2 $50 %
T55 pounds Of ruisiuz and 5, SOC, $50
pounds of prUues were IHaPCrtedI as
against - zoe, 058 pounds OF raisiua and
IS, 69s, $50 pounds of pruues In the same
period Of 1880 -Four or i've carlosdz OF
raisins are leaving san Diego daily Tor
the east at this time
Some recent experiments ia light
house signalling in England have shown
] some remarkable results from directing
! the light vertically 70 the sky, instead
! ] of horizontally across the water. When
| all weather conditions are fuvorab bic the
I light of the Eddystoue Lighthouse, as
ordinarily directed can be seen seven
teen and q half miles at sec, but it TEz
, found that a beam OF light of much lesz
P power directed vertically was visible
exactly twice as far, and could be well
diaccrned through an ordinary fog
] The number of locomotives is the
E United States rs about 38rOyc-oue "a
every I've miles of railroad, and OF ears
of all kinds 1,IOgr 600, OK which % coo
% are passenger coaches The lOcomo
Z tiFes cost s45O 0Jl, COO the cars $780,
o I 600, 4. 20, making the approximate cost ol
To- Lhe rolling stocS Sl-501, 600, 0oo. Each
D year a freight engine Hauls $4,000 tons
d and a passenger engine pulls 90. O0l
d passengers These railways employ
e. 525. 600 persons nearly all men, gghC
I provide a living for nearly 5000, OO'
& people, or about Oue-twsutlegh Of tins
$ whole population
8. One OF the theories with regard q
the so-caiIed Druidical rocks at stone
heure is that they were erected witt
an astronomical aim and one % thu
legends states that the sun rises on Cd,
S. longest day OF the year immediately
d above the top Of an isolated muuoiith
~ The latter statement has b=eu prove
O. by afr. Bacon, who made a trip there "a
o the time OF the last soistics, accom-
panied by MI Howe. "a photographed
Who succeeded ia getting a hue view o
l. the sun as = rose above the point O
g the rock ia the manner named by th
Is legend
- --AIbsrt,'s said the stern Bosto
- father. ct see that on the tEird day g
z this month you got three dement's
% =-bosI. nov ctu You explain this, SKI
i- The little Boston boy hung his head
rs shame Father" he exclaimed
sr last, Il can not tell q lie That was u
be- day forgot 60 crease my trouseF5- 81
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