The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-10-25
SCIENCE AND PROGRESS.

electricity is recent invention. i
The Electrical Review" says that v
the electrical publication of sewage sis {
a complete success, chemically and BAG '
Platinum has been drawn into wire
so fine that eighteen strands of it twist
ed together could be inserted into the
hollow of human hair.
Willie Jones of Girardyille. Penn,
having lost his shin bones by blood
poisoning, has been supplied by a sur
geon with new ones of india rubber.
A spoon in glass filled with hot
water prevents the breaking of the
glass, because the metal readily absorbs
large part of the heat of the water.
"Cool as cucumber" is scientific
ally correct. Investigation shows that
this vegetable has temperature one
degree below that of the surrounding
atmosphere.
The statistics of life insurance people
show that in the last twenty-five years
the average of mans life has increasd
per cent, or two whole years, from
41.9 to 1879 years.
DR.. Calling, the inventor, who has
been looking into the merits of smoke
less powder, says it will revolutionize
military tactics, as it carries bullet
double the former distance.
A baby carriage, designed especially
for the use of those who live in flats,
which can be folded together, so that
one person can handily carry it up and
down stairs, is a New York invention.
A writer in Philadelphia paper as
serts that the Eastern cities, by boring
artesian wells, can tap underground
rivers from the Alleghenies and thus
secure pure and bountiful supply Of
water.
Italian grape culturists are now max
ing Illuminating oil from grape seeds,
from which they get product OF from
10 to 10 per cent. 1t is clear, colorless
and inodorous, and burns without
smoke.
The snow huts of the Esquimaux are
the warmest dwellings that can be con-
structed in polar regions, because snow
is the poorest conductor of heat that
can be found there, and keeps the
warmth of the fire within.
The electric welding of rails into
, continuous lengths for street railways
) bids fair to be very extensively prac
ticed. A couple of machines i'll Brook
lyn are expected to weld a hundred
: miles of track within year.
The pressure of water to the SQUARE
f inch upon the body of every ANNA
that lives at the bottom of the deepes
: parts of the Atlantic Ocean is abou
u twenty-five times greater than the pres
s sure that will drive railroad train.
e A company engaged i'll the construc
e tion of an electric railway on the jung
r frau proposes to devote 100000 to tn
l. erection of a geophysical observatory a
/? an altitude of about 10, 900 feet, and
d apply $1,000 year for its maintenance
). Seeking for higher meteorologicf
81 station among the mountains OF Per
'e than that of Mount Chanchani, PROBE
sor Bailey, of the Harvard College O'
1t servatory, has established a station VI
W on the top of the volcano FL Misti,
I'd an elevation of 10, 200 feet
ed Scientific research shows that meat
~ fish. milk and other animal foods co
So three times more than flour, meal al
n, other staple vegetable foods to get t
ne same nutritious result 1t is al
ia shown that the heavy work OF t
ld world is not done by the meat eaters.
" One of the latest scientific vagaries
az the proposition that the central heat
g the earth may be drawn upon and ut
80 lied by sinking wells or pits Gle
- - enough to tap superheated steam
oN gases having sufficient pressure to Or
~ machinery and diffuse comfort on
,r surface.
,ot Sir Robert Ball, the Astronor
ass ROYAL for Ireland, at scientific me
lid ing, stated that the time is com
mo- when power would be furnished for
his dustrial purposes directly from the h
flo of the sun, and he exhibited a mach
nm of that character which was capable
ess driving small printing press.
be- The present 15Oofoot tunnel and
am bine- wheel pit of the Niagara +
all Power Company will, when it s.
Irty work at it's full capacity OF 100,
ers' horse power, divert 1874 per cent
the total volume of water, and rec
the depth of the crest along the ell
falls to the extent of 40 inches.
!, q A machine, which is regarded as
rsi. tain to result in changing the pre-
nor methods of handling coal on the u
r n;s Lakes and elsewhere, is at worl
tho Ashtabula. In one hour it ear
mill eighteen cars, each OF about tive
,obt three tons capacity, and dump
contents into the holds of vesse
"it Bradstreet's.
cbes Nickel aluminium is the latest m
siest Its color resembles silver, and it
more ductile than steel. A ba
.acy. inches long and / 1915 inches
) do inch thick had permanent set OF
Of as inches. 1t took 400 pounds to d
ntin- the metal that much. A similar
/ he Of steel, of $4,000 pounds tf
n ON strength, took exactly the same lo
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