Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1891 — In Water and Yet Dry. [ARTICLE]

In Water and Yet Dry.

Into a basin of water throw a piece of mo.iey, a ring, or any other object, and propose to take it out without wetting your hands. All that you have to do is to sprinkle the surface of the liquid with a powder that has no cohesion with the water, and consequently that the water does not wet. Lycopodium powder, which may be found in any drug store, has this property. After having thrown a little of this powder on the water, plunge your hand bravely to the bottom and take out the ring, and show to the audience that your hand is perfectly dry. The reason of this is that the lycopodium has formed a perfect glove on your hand, thus preventing any contact with the liquid, the same as, for instance, ducks plunge their bodies into the water aud come out perfectly ary on account of the oil which is secreted in their feathers. The Ohio Deccn lial State Board of Equalization find that the value of Ohio farms has decreased in ten years from 8684,826,516 to 8576.183,975, a loss of 8108,642,541 in a period during which the Federal taxes on all farm supplies have been increased from 15 to 20 per cent This is another point on which the McKinley stumpers appreciate the beauties of Quay’s maxim, “Don’t talk.” A tonic which is said to be very efficacious in arresting the falling out of the hair is as follow.-: Bay rum, 1 quart; table salt, half teacupful; castor oil, 1 drachm; tincture of cantharides, 1 drachm. A new mode of furnishing power to motor engines by mixing steam with hot gases is creating a great deal of interest in English circles