Middletown transcript., 1909-11-06

The manufacture of wire glass is Of Sc
Lonis origin, and the largest factory il
the world devoted to this product is il
that city.
Recent successes in the art of sky y-sailiDG
have stimulated the toy designers, and al
the present time there are a number ol
fying-machine toys to amuse the chill
dren.
Tea is germicide, according to Boston
physician, who claims it an especially
rank enemy of the typhoid bacillus.
A Photographic plate, coupled with a
telescope, discovers millions of stars whose
light the refine of the eye could not ap.
preciate; the microphone makes the in
audible tread of fly sound like the tramp
Of cayalrymen.
The human sense cannot realize diff
ference of temperature beyond one-dfth
OF degree; but the thermometer, an
instrument 100000 times as sensitive as
the skin, notes difference Of. millionth
of degree.
In the Edinburgh museum there is
magnet which weighs but three and one
half grains, yet it can lift AS times its
weight.
Opalescent glass for use in the manu-
facture of stained glass windows is made
in this country in manner which can
not be duplicated and this material is
shipped all over Europe.
After this year the railroads Of New
York which traverse the forest regions
must burn oil as locomotive fuel during
the summer months, as q means of pre-.
venting forest fires.
Sixteen million dollars worth of con-
densed milk has been exported from the
United States during the past decade,
81, 800, 600 of it in the fiscal year 1908.
Italian women may not engage in any
industrial pursuit which occupies their
time at night. Males under Is years Of
age are also barred from night work.
An English inventor has perfected q
more nearly fireproof door than the steel
one generally used by armoring wooden
door with steel sheets, so attached that
they can expand when heated without
permitting flames to reach the wood.
Edison, who has not done much in the
way of improving the telephone for some
time, is now working on new transmit
ter, which is very sensitive, and which
enables conversation to be carried on
with greater ease and less liability Of
error.
The skeleton and part of the body Of
a mammoth recently found in the frozen
sands of the river Sangur- Yurach is of
special interest. It is the only specimen
yet found in which the trunk is pre-
served, These extinct elephants owe their
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fact that they have been buried in ice or
frozen mud. The specimen has been
taken to ST. Petersburg Museum where
it will form notable addition 10 the al
ready fine collection.
II a sample of water contains much
organic matter, living or dead, it may
be considered dangerous. There are sew.
eral simple tests for organic matter in
water. Twenty grams or nearly two
tabIespoonfuls Of concentrated solution
OF tannin may be added to q glassful of
water. 1.-THE water becomes turbid in
less than an hour it should be rejected.
Another test is the addition OF few drops
of to 1000 solution of potassium per-
manganate to a glass of water and the
pink tint produced should not disappear.
These tests are more valuable if made in
conjunction with control tests made with
distilled water known to be pure.