Rensselaer Union and Jasper Republican, Volume 8, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1876 — INDUSTRIAL, STATISTICAL AND TECHNICAL. [ARTICLE]

INDUSTRIAL, STATISTICAL AND TECHNICAL.

In the Russian Medical College are 122 girls of titled birth. Missouri has paid this year $3,822 as bounty for wolf scalps. ./ Under the balmy influences of a new directory, San Francisco has increased her population t0J270.000. If you would be known and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know and not be known, live in a city. Concord meeting-house in Chester, Pa., was erected in the year 1785, a still older one, which was" erected in 1693, having been demolished about that period. The bricks of the present building are said to have been brought from the mother country. “If 80,000 articles are on exhibition at the Centennial, and the visitor devotes five hours of each day to the Exhibition, giving one-half minute to the examination of each article, it will take him five months to go through," says the Philadelphia Star. Vienna uses 720,00$ pounds of genuine meerschaum, worth oversl,ooo,ooo, yearly, and 4,100,000 pounds of meerschaum chips, which are ground and compressed and made into imitation pipes and cigar holders. The imitation is carried to such perfection that the best judges are often puzzled to distinguish it from the real article. The removal of sand, etc.,' adhering from the molds to iron castings, generally accomplished by filing, is said to be effected far better by means of steel brushes. They are made of thin strips of steel, in the form of ordinary scrubbers, and also in that of whitewash brushes, and are reported to remain sharp for a long time, and to be far more convenient in use than the file.— Exchange. To give black walnut a fine polish so as tp resemble rich old wood, apply a coat of shellac varnish, and then rub it with a piece of smooth pumicestone until dry. Another coat may be given and the rabbin sr repeated. After this acoat of polish, made of linseed oil, beeswax and turpentine, may be well rubbed in with a dauber made of a piece of sponge tightly wrapped in a piece of fine flannel several times folded and moistened with the polish.— Scientific American. The Court Journal, of London, savs that an American professor has devised" a very formidable apparatus. It consists of a small drum, with a very delicately sensitive elastic skin stretched over it. A stream of gas passed through this drum will burn as usual till some one begins to sing near it, when the flame, under the influence of the vibrating skin, commences to shake in a manner which is varied indefinitely, according to the notes of the tune, so that, under certain conditions, it will be possible to photograph these movements of the flame, and this, of course, will be equivalent to photographing the tune.