Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1899-04-14
LARnR NOTES.

One Of the most astounding inven-
lions of the present century is q ma
chine that produces liquid air at
cost of about 20 cents a gallon. The
temperature of liquid air is about 400
degrees below zero. 1t commercial
uses are almost fnnumerable. The ex-
pansive force of liquid air is twenty
times as great as that of steam, and
engines are being run by 1t now in
New York. But the most astonishing
thing Is the latest statement that an
engine consuming three gallons of IL
quid air will, by the force 1t generates,
produce seven gallons; that is, this
invention is four-sevenths better than
perpetual motion. ALI this seems in
credible, but the public exhibition
given in the presence OF prominent
scientific gentlemen, and the endorse
ments they have given the claims of
the inventor seems to establish the
fact that great motive force hitherto
almost unknown has really been dis
covered. The machine that produces
liquid air is small, occupies but little
space, and costs but little to construct
1t. OF course, the new invention will
be monopolized, $15,000,000 trust
having been incorporated in New Jer-
sey this week to manufacture ma
chimes and liquid air.
A new dredging machine is in opera
ton in Buffalo with which ten men do
the work of hundreds.-A recent in
vention in wire nail machinery forms
two nails at each revolution, and can
be operated at a very high speed
1.-THE whitewash mans burden" is here
in the shape of a pneumatic coating
and withdrawing machine, which is
now being exhibited in large cities
The auto-trucks are being rapidly In
PRODUCED in New York.-A monster
shear, weighing 100000 pounds, is now
being built to cut blooms 10 inches
square or 100 square inches of section
at one strike. One man operates two
machines.
The plasterers' lockout In Eng
land threatens to drag along intermin-
ably. OF the 1900 members, 1890 are
affected, of which number about 600
have secured other jobs from contract
ors who are not in the employers fed
eration.-Another lockout is likely to
occur If the cotton spinners persist in
demanding raise of wages. The boss
es are determined to grant no conces-
sions.
The Midland Railway Company of
England has ordered 20 locomotives
from American manufacturers, and the
reason given is that the company
could get them in three months from
America and for $4,000 per locomotive
less than in England. where they
would be obliged to wait from fifteen
months to two years for their COM
pletion."
Sunday the new 100000 labor tenn
pie will be dedicated with impressive
ceremonies in Brussels. Belgium, by
the socialists. The building will con-
tain an auditorium capable of seating
1000 persons, besides stores, coffee
rooms, reading rooms, meeting halls,
etc.
Active preparations are now going
forward for the great Worlds Labor
Congress in Paris next year. Indica-
lions are that hundreds of delegates
will attend and that every civilized
country in the world will be repre-
sented.
W. w. keenan,, mechanic employ
ed at the plant of the Winona Wagon
Company, has invented a machine for
harvesting sugar beets that he esti-
mates will reduce the cost of harvest
ing about 60 per cent.