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IH^ifr^prrf; ffifiyKscii..: ^ SCIENCE AND DTODSTBT. —A Canadlffn has Invented a method tjf putting glass In sash without tho em* ploymont.of putty. —AprSperwatohhus boon exhibited by a Dresden watchmaker. The paper Is prepared In suoh a manner that tho wntoh 1b said to be as sorvloeablo as those In ordinary use. - —Glass shlnglos are now boing man- ufaoturod at Pittsburgh, which aro said to be more durable and impervious to rain than slate or any other material.— Pittsburgh Po}U —A German patent has just boen taken out lot. the manufacture bi bot¬ tles, eto., from oust Iron, oontjiinlng twelve por oont, of silicon, ,a compound wbioh is said' to resist aotlon of'tho strongest'aoids. —Five times as many kinds of Insocts are estimated to exist as there are spe- oios of all other Hying oreaturas to¬ gether. .Four hundred and fifty species are fostered by thaoak troo^oJane, and two hundred by *he plno. Hjifflboldt, in 1849, estimated that betwotfn 150,000 and 170,000 spooios wero prosorved in collections, and it is now supposed that tho number may bo something like 760,- 000. With how large a part of Na¬ ture's production ia this one field can Any single individual hope to become familiarr —After a long consideration of means for stopping a ship suddenly when emergency requires, ft German has adopted tho; principle of a recoil of a gun as the only feasible basis for ex¬ periment. Ho proposes to fasten on the front of tho ship an immense can¬ non charged with some powerful ox- plosive and ready to bo fired by elec¬ tricity at a moment's notice, He sup¬ poses that the recoil would exactly counterbalance tho momentum of the ship, the armnrnont, of course, being proportioned to tho tortnago —In a letter to a friend In Berlin, Prof. Nordenskj'old lately wrote as fol¬ lows "As for my expedition to Green¬ land, It Is my intention, starting from Auleltelvikfjord on the west oonst in sixty-eight degrees thirty minutes north latitude, to push into the Interior. Re¬ lying on the foot that all the winds which resjh the ooost from the interior «re dry and comparatively warm, I be¬ lieve, contrary to the prevailing opin¬ ion, that the interior Is froo from ico. I further believe that, under the meteor¬ ological conditions now existing south of eighty degrees north latitude, toe- oovered continent* ore a physloal im¬ possibility." -v —Tho increasing scarcity of tallow of animal origin has attracted the atten¬ tion of osnalo and soap manufacturers to a vegetable grease Introduced into Europe toward 1848, and tho use of which is steadily growing In France and England. The tallow troe is of Chinese origlnt it grows nlso in tho northwest of India, and has been introduced into South Carolina, whore it has been cul¬ tivated for ton years. It produces a fruit the core of which is coverod with a layer of thick tallow, and contains a yellowish aromatio oil, used in tho same oountry as a heating agent, After the plucking, whioh takes place in July in the south and la October in the north of China, hot water is pouted on them and the greaso is skimmed off after get¬ ting cola with Bpoons, tho tallow, molded into tho form of bamboo canes, Is direotly brought into commerce — «»—i------------- They Settled. Two men wore wrangling in front of tho City Hall the other day, when one of, them called out " "I toll you I don't owo you no five dollarsi" "I say you do!" "And I won't pay it[" "Thou I'll sue you1" At this point a pedestrian halted and Inquired of tho onoi "Do you honestly !>we himP" "Not a penny sill" "And will j on sue him for flve dol¬ lars!*' ho asked of tho othor. 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