Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1892 — Notes and Geanings. [ARTICLE]

Notes and Geanings.

The pendulum was first attached to the clock in 1656 by Huyghens. Chlobide of ethyl is being successfully used as a refrigerant and local anaesthetic. When the belt gels saturated with waste oil an application of ground chalk will soon absorb the oil and make the belt workable. Bismuth melts at a point so far below that of boiling water that it .can be use 1 for taking casts from the most destructible objects. The largest dam of any kind in the southern hemisphere is that at Be jtaloo, Australia. It is built of concrete, has a capacity of 80,' 01,000 gallons, and cost $585,000. Sugab is being extracted from the sap of the sugar pine tree in the mountains.of Northern California. The sap is light-brown in color, and contains a large per cent, of saccharine matter. A perfect opal, with a movable drop in the center, was found in California recently. A negro at the Kimberly, South Africa, diamond mines found a diamond of the same character in 1888. Thebe are schools for teaching watchmaking at Geneva, Neuchatel, La Chaux des Fonds, Locle. Bienne, St. Inner, and Porrentrui. In the last six years the number of watches exported from Switzerland has increased from 2,723,334 in 1885 to 4,431,301 last year.