Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-01-29
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
The moon moves 1888 feet per second.
There are 10000 different kinds oi

The moon moves 1888 feet per second.
There are 10000 different kinds OF
butterflies.
Steam locomotives are to be tried on
the Chicago street lines.
The Chamber of Deputies of Belgium
has passed a bill prohibiting any public
experiments in hypnotism.
A new engine just completed for the
New York Central's ''fiyer" will weigh,
ready for service, just one hundred tons,
tender included.
The redevelopment of lost limbs is de-
clared by an English naturalist to be not
unusual among insects, in whom it may
take place either during the larval or
pupal stage.
A boring at Brohl, ON the Rhine, has
been worked for carbonic acid for fifty
years, but its supply is now failing on
account of the opening of eight other
borings which are now in operation near
it.
Unsuccessful attempts to produce rain,
by exploding twenty bags of roburitc
have been made in Bezwada, in the
Madras Presidency India, but showers
were readily produced at Madras by ex-
ploding dynamite.
A specimen of capped petrol, a bird
supposed to be au extinct, or at least q
lost species, was found recently in Eng
land. The original home of the capped
petrol is said to have been the islands of
81 Dnminuo and Guadaloune
For chapped hands the following is
most excellent remedy: Camphor gum,
three drains, beesewax, three drains,
spermaceti, three drains, olive oil, two
ounces. Put in pan and set in boiling
water until melted, and apply to the
hands.
An engineer suggests that a steam
hose be connected with engines so that
an engineer without any material move
ment on his part could turn stream of
scalding water and steam on robbers at
tempting to climb up in the cab or over
the tender.
A locomotive has just been built at
the Crewe Works of the London and
Northwestern Railway, of England,
which is capable of drawing train at
the rate of 100 miles an hour. The
speed attained by this engine in trial
runs between Crewe and Chester was
ninety miles an hour; but this was shown
to be considerably below its full
powers.
There is a tract of land in Levy
County, Florida, in which three holes
have been dug thirty feet apart, and
each excavation has laid bare parts of
the skeleton of huge animal. The
dlggers take it for granted that the
bones all belong to the same creature,
and are wondering what sort of beast
it was whose remains underlie tho
county.
The production of positive photo
graphs direct from the camera has been
announced in Germany, this remarkable
result being secured by adding small
quantities of substituted sulpho-urea to
the developer. Successful trials were
made with allyl and phenyl sulpho urea
added to eikonogen; but sulpho-u
itself, while acting similarly, gave un-
satisfactory results.
The resources of q shoe factory in
Leicester, England, have been immensely
increased by the adoption of electric
power. The installation is to be further
enlarged, and when complete it will in
clude two engines of 150.horse power
for the driving of the dynamos for light
and power. Fifteen hundred people
will be employed and the factory will
produce so, 900 pairs of shoes week.