Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-10-12
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 Minna.-How rapid is the ordin
 ary flight of birds? Can vol
 print any particulars about it?
 A. What is considered the mos
 notable bird flight is the achieve ment of the Virginia plover, whict leaves it's haunts ill North America and, taking course down the At lantic, reaches the coast of Brazil ir one unbroken flight of fifteen hours covering a distance of over three thousand miles at the rate of foul miles minute.
 J. A. B.-Please give me the name and address of the clerks office at Little Rock, Ark, and inform me whether old letters of some fifty years ago are on file and if they may be examined?
 A. A letter addressed to the coun- ty clerk or city clerk at Little Rock with a request for information will no doubt be promptly answered. Re ords may be examined; whether let ters would be kept so long depends upon their importance
 H. A. L-Please state the number of widows and orphans in the United States, and the number made so by intemperance? CD What is the longest word in the English langu- age?
 A. The last census gave the num- Der of widows as 2,721, ,564. I do not know how many orphans there are, and nobody knows how many were created by intemperance. CD I can do no better than to reprint that one given last week: hororoficalibitudi- nailaribus.
 A. B. D.-What is C maidstone, and where found?
 A. A stone more or less popularly supposed to cure hydrophoba. or to prevent it when threatened It is applied to the wound, flnm which it is supposed 10 draw the poison. The belief in its value never had any scientific sanction. The pebbles are of various sizes and appear 70 have been selected because of some pe- culiarity of form or color. A speci- men which had high reputation in Pennsylvania was described by a writer as consisting of a worn piece of feldspar, possessing none of the absorbent qualities ascribed to ir.
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 M. E. C.--Please tell me what steel tools; we often see theD adver- tised as oil-tempered? CD by what process is sugar refined or made white, and what chemicals if any are used in the whitening process?
 A. Steel is tempered by heating and suddenly cooling, repeating the process and regulating the heat by the temper desired. l find nc refer ence to any process which includes oil. CD Clay and charcoal are used in the refining of sugar, but no l think. Sugar crustals are pure white. Brown sugars are made after the white sugar has been 
 A,N.D.-Please print directions for making silver solutions used in mak- ing mirrors?
 A. After the glass is polished on both sides it is laid on a level table 1f great strength, usually of smooth stone, with raised edges. A sheet or sheets of tin foil sufficient to cover the upper surface of the glass are then put on and rubbed down smooth | lfter which the whole is covered with quicksilver which immediately forms m amalgam with the tin. The sup ertluouS mercury is then run of. and woolen cloth is spread over the whole surface and square iron weights : Ire applied until the whole presents | mass of iron two or three pounds 0 the inch. After this pressure has peen applied day and a night the weights and the cloth are removed md the glass is removed to another able of wood, with a moveable top. which admits of the glass being slightly inclined at first. and the in- being gradually increased lntil the unamalgamated quicksilver las perfectly drained away. and only he surface of perfect amalgam re- mains coating the glass and perfect y adherent to it. From eighteen lays to month are required to con- ,lete the process.
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