Cleanings

Kaikoura Star, Volume XIV, Issue 743, 1 June 1894, Page 7

Cleanings

The tempering of steel ie a delicate process. A workman washed his bands in a tank of water used for that purpose in a Massachusetts factory and a whole batch of steel was sold as second grade. ft ft ft ft ft ft

Sea water has been converted into a beverage! A little citric acid or citrate of silver is added to the briny liquid, chloride of silver is precipitated, and a harmless mineral water is produced. An ounce of citrate renders a half pint of water drinkable. Seven ounces would furnish a shipwrecked man with water for a week. The question is how to secure citrate to the man who may be shipwrecked. ft ft ft ft * ft

The disease of scab in sheep is still prevalent in portions of the United States. The American Sheep Breeder states that it is more widespread in the west than it used to be. The loss to the country from this disease is estimated at fully ten million dollars annually. This estimate is based on official reports, and may be accepted as correct. ft ft it ft ft *

The Times lately stated that Lord Bridport was feeding his cart horses on his farm in Somerset with a mixture oflinseed oil, crushed oals, chaff, and a few mangel, and the results showed that this system of feeding was satisfactory and economical. In the case of cattle it is expedient to introduce the oil into the mixture in small quantities at first, gradually increasing to a full ration. ft ft ft * ft ft

Another striking proof baa recently been added to the already long list of incidents which make it certain that there is safety in extreme speed on railways. The Great Western express, one of the fastest trains in the kingdom, came upon the trunk of a tree 40ft long which had slid down from the embankment. A timid engine-driver seeing such a formidable obstacle as a log sft 6in in circumference before him, might have shut off steam and put on the brakes, when a catastrophe would have been inevitable. Fortunately they did not employ timid drivers on the Great Western, and the engine, at a speed of 60 miles an hour, cut clean through the trunk with no worse result than a slight jolting to the passengers and some damage to the engine-guards and steam pipe. ft ft ft ft ft ft

Speaking to the Address in reply to the Queen’s speech in the House of Lords on March 12th, Lord Salisbury made the folio-wing reference to Mr Gladstone’s resignation:—‘Both the noble lords (the proposer and seconder of the Address) referred to the circumstance that this was a great historic occasion. It may be called a turning point in our political history. A great career has closed ; a great figure that has been to the front in politics as long, I should think, as any man here can recollect has passed from active interference in pulic affairs. Very just and very natural expressions of admiration and devotion were uttered by the two noble lords who followed Mr Gladstone. For us it is not possible on such an occasion to speak of his policy and of his measures, for it would introduce us into controversial ground, from which an occasion such as this should be sacred. At least, we, his opponents, sitting in a House where we have not been subject to the glamour of bis eloquence, can offer our passing tribute to the most brilliant intellect that has been placed at the service of the State since Parliamentary Government began—[cheers], —and to the courage and resolution and self-sacrifice and self-discipline with which he has continued exertions in behalf of the convictions be has acquired to the latest period that has ever been granted to an English statesman.—[Loud cheers.]’ ft ft ft ft ft ft

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