Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1892 — NOTES AND GLEANINGS. [ARTICLE]

NOTES AND GLEANINGS.

Papermaking is now the fifth in the list of American industries. It is used In many arts and for scores of purposes. A mysterious ringing of electic bells to a Swiss house was traced to a large spider, which had one foot on the bell wire and another on an electric light Wire. A modification of the drawing compasses, called the spirograph, has been devised by a French mechanician, for Quickly and accurately drawing curves and spirals of any desired size. Glass with a wire core is a new material made in Dresden, the glass being fused to the wire while in a plastic state. The adhesion is said to remain perfect under severe fluctuation of temperature. A medical discovery reported from Edinburgh is that severe inflammation of the brain, due to blows on the head, can be cured by lubricating all the internal membranes of the nose with glycerine. This gives relief to the brain by causing the water to descend by the Hose and throat. J. C. Stewart, the well-known commedian, owns an island in the mouth of Chesapeake Bay, on which there is clay that would turn out pure aluminum at sixteen cents a pound. The clay has been examined by a Philadelphia chemist, and at the end of the season a company is to be organized to manufacture the metal. A new gunboat of the Swedish navy has the combined qualities of ice breaker, tugboat, fire engine, water distiller, torpedo repairing ship, and man-of-war. She is one hundred and twenty feet long and twenty-one feet wide, is equipped with four Nordenfelt guns and torpedoes, and has engines of one hundred and fifty horse power, giving a speed of twelve and three-fourth knots. White lead is poisonous to most people; but there are examples of individuals who are unaffected by it. John Jarvis worked for over fifty years in the Well known white lead establishment of Wetherill & Brother, Philadelphia, and always enjoyed good health. He lately died of old age. Thomas McCann was another example. He worked over fiftyfive years in the same concern.