Improvement in Hulling and Cleansing Hominy.
Nitro-Glycerin.
HISERT'S ADJUSTABLE CULTIVATOR TOOTH.
Remedy for Cold Feet in City Cars.
Getting Your Money Back.
A GIGANTIC BRIDGE.--A suspension bridge is to be erected by M.
Oudry, engineer, over the Straits of Messina, Sicily, from Point
Pezzo, on the Calabrian Coast. It is to consist of four spans of
3,281 feet each, elevated about 150 feet above high-water level, so
that the largest ships may pass under. The proposed Roebling bridge
over the East River, between New York and Brooklyn, is to have a
single span of 1,600 feet.
The through mails to the West now go in iron-bound boxes instead
of leathern bags. Each box, tightly packed, contains about eight
hundred letters.
The first steam vessel used in Great Britain was called the
Comet, and built by Henry Bell in 1812. It was thirty tuns
burden.
OFFICIAL REPORT OF PATENTS AND CLAIMS
THE LAST NUMBER OF VOLUME XVII.
COMMENCEMENT OF A NEW VOLUME.
A CHANGE AT THE PATENT OFFICE.
OBITUARY.
How to Make Intelligent Workmen--Go and Do Likewise.
The Iron-Clads at Sea.
THE SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN AS A MEDIUM OF BUSINESS.
HUNT'S IMPROVED STEAM PACKING PISTON.
Improvement in Hand Drills.
COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE.--The Senate on Friday, the 29th
ult., confirmed the nomination of the Hon. Horace Capron as
Commissioner of Agriculture to fill the position made vacant by the
death of Isaac Newton, the former head of the Department.
It is estimated that 10,000,000 feet of sawed lumber is frozen
up in the docks at Bangor, Maine, three fourths of which is sold
and waiting shipment.
Improved Method of Securing Cutters on Boring Bars.
Tides and Their Causes.
The Great Hoosac Tunnel.
Horse-hair Snakes--Wonderful Transformation.
Man Proposes, but God Disposes.
Extraordinary Effects of an Earthquake
The survey of another trans-continental railway route, which
shall follow mainly the 35th parallel of latitude, is nearly
completed. Its projectors claim this as the most feasible one
across the continent, and even if the northern and southern roads
are constructed, this would still be the favorite popular
thoroughfare, and the easiest and cheapest built.
The Chilian gun now being built at Pittsburgh, is 22¼
feet in length, being two feet longer than the famous Rodman gun at
Fort Hamilton, this harbor, but of exactly the same bore, twenty
inches. Its greatest diameter is 5 feet 4 inches, its least
diameter, 2 feet 9 inches. The gun is designed for garrison or
naval service.
From lack of economy, in reduction of ores, it is estimated that
the aggregate loss on the production of bullion in this country for
the present year will reach the sum of $25,000,000.
Recent American and foreign Patents.
Answers to Correspondents.
Business and Personal.
MANUFACTURING, MINING, AND RAILROAD ITEMS.
PATENT OFFICE DECISIONS ON APPEAL.
