Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1880 — Popular Science. [ARTICLE]

Popular Science.

Lamp-wick dipped in hot vinegar before using, is said to prevent any offensive smell from lamps. Tortoise-shell and horn combe are prevented from cracking by being occasionally rubbed with off. Imitation honey is made of paraffine comb filled with glucose. Hom or tortoise-shell may be welded by pressing the parts together between a hot iron, interposing a wet linen cloth between the iron and the object. Mexicans subdue fractious horses by having a hood so arranged as to be pulled down over the eyes of the horse as soon as he manifests uneasiness. Several applications subdue the horses permanently. If a sponge, after having been used a week, is then put away to thoroughly dry, and another used for an equal time, the soft, flabby and worn-out sponge recovers its texture. Sponges treated in this way outlast three ordinary sponges, Recent discoveries of rich deposits of phosphate of lime, in Canada, has caused land near the area of deposit to go up in price. Lumbering has been abandoned in some instances to cultivate the new industry, England and the continent are large purchasers. Mineralogists and metal-workers may turn to useful account the feet that M. 8. Mesinier has made mixtures of iron and nickel chlorides, reduced by, hydrogen at a red heat, yield well-defined alloys, sometimes admirably crystalline, and closely analogous to the meteoritic alloys of iron and nickel.