Volume 20 (1870) (454 pages)

138. SCIENTIFIC PRESS. [Frpruary 26,1870. Our Agents. Our Frrenns oan do much in ald of our paper and the cause of practical knowledge and science, by assisting Agents in their labors of canvassing, by lending their influence and encouraging fayors. Weintend to send none but worthy men. Trnveling Agents, We. H, Murnay, California and Nevada, 8, H, Henrme—California, Resident Agents, CENTERVILLE, Alameda Co., Cal.—L. G. Yaten. OaELAND—W. H, Hardy, SaoramMenTo—A. S, Hopkins, No. 70 J street. JAOESON, Amador Co., Cal.—G. §. Andrews. Treasure City, Nev.—Thos. Starz. Carson Crry, Nev.—dJohn G, Fox. TREASURE Crry, Nev.—J. 1. Rohertson. SHerManrown, NeEv.—P. C, Renfrew. SILVER Crry AND Inano TeR.—Sam. Heidelberger. SmLver Crry, Idaho—J. Caples. HELENA, Montana—E. W. Carpenter. Buaox Haws, C. T.—Harper M. Orahood. CENTRAL Crry, C. T.—Richards & Crane. GEORGETOWN, C. T.—John A. Lafferty, Postmaster. Denver Crry, C. T.—Woolworth & Moffat. CHEYENNE, D. T.—Robert Beers, Onaga, N. T.—Barkalow & Brothers, PHILsDELPHtA, Pa.—Fitler, Quigg & Co, Lonpon—George Street, 30 Cornhill, E. C. Henson & Menez, 41 Park Row, New York. A. O. Enox, City Soliciting and Collecting Agent, THE large majority of United States and Foreign Patents grantPacific coast during the past few years, have been obtained through the agency of Drewsy & Co., publishers of the Screnriric Press. Established in the year 1860, we have an extensive patent library, with full record of cases on this coast, and can give the best and ed to inventors on the most reliable advice as to the patentability of new inventions. THE NEW AGE, A WEEELY JOURNAL OF SIXTEEN Paces, The ** Official Organ” of the I. 0. O. F.on the Pacific Coast. Is devoted to Odd Fellowship, the Ants AND ScIENOES and GeneraL LITERATURE ; and asa family paper is not surpassed by any journal in the United Statey. Subscription price per year by mail, $5, Delivered in the city, per month, 50 cents. Office, Odd Fellows' Hall, 327 Montgomery street, San Francisco. 19v19 HAYWARD & COLEMAN IMPORTERS AND REFINERS —or— a IHluminating, Lubricating, —AND— PAINT OILS, OONSISTING OF KEROSENE, LARD, SPERM, ELEPHANT, POLAR, TANNERS, NEATSFOOT, BOILED AND RAW LINSEED, CASTOR AND CHINA NUT. —ALSO— Spirits of Turpentine and Alcohol. Lamps and Lamp Stock! An elegant andcomplete assortment, SOLE IMPORTERS OF Devoe’s Illnminating Oil? PATENT CANS. Svl7-tf 414 Front street, San Francisco. QCCIDENTAL Insurance Company, OF SAN FRANCISCO, Cash Cnpitnl, +» + + + 300,000 GOLD COIN. Office 3. W. corner of Montgomery and California streets,Fire and Marine Insurance. All Losses paid in U. S, Gold Coin. A. G, STILES, President. B, RoTHSCHILD, Secretary, 2ovl7 THe Mining and Scientific Press, pnhlished at San Francisco, California, hy Dewey & Co., is a handsome illustrated sixteen-page weekly, and ono of the most valuable and interosting exchanges that comes to our table. Subscription price, $4 per year.—Jnventors' a Afechanics' Journal, ‘ PATENT CHAIR SPRING. PURINGTON & MAYOUX’S PATENT, NOY. 30, 1869. This is the best Chair Spring yet invented, and will undoubtedly supersede all other devices of tbe kind, as itis SIMPLER, CHEAPER, AND MORE DURABLE. As a simple article of comfort and ease, it has no superior, and only needs to he tried to commend itself to universal and lasting favor. The Springs seen attached to the front legs of the chair in the engraving enables the person sitting in the seat, with very little effort, to give themselves A Gentle and Easy Rocking Motion, And also to rest themselves by change of position, by a very slight movement. It renders a common chair, at a trifling expense, equal or superior, in many respects, to a rocking chair. ; The advantage of this Spring over all others consists in the manner of attaching it to the chair by the simple turning of a nut, which nut is also securely, easily and quickly adjusted to the Spring in a manner impossible for it to hecome inadvertently detached. The engravings sbow tbe parts both detached and as adjusted to the chair. The nut is made of metal, and is provided with a screw thread, so that it can be serewed to the leg of an ordinary chair; and instead of weakening and splitting the leg, as in the case where a hole is bored and a screw inserted to hold and attach the nut, this method strengthens it also be very quickly and easily put on or removed. The ease and convenience in applyiog the spring to the nutis readily scen. The nut can The top of the nut is provided with a collar or shoulder, and also an incline groove around tbe outer surface, so that the smaller end of the pan can he screwed to the nut; and its top coil being brought firmly against the shoulder, all oscillation from side to side is prevented. uninjured in its original form. When the nuts are taken off, the chair is THIS IS A CALIFORNIA INVENTION, And a superior article is now being manufactrred. For particulars apply to A. MAWOUX, Marysville, Or inquire of PAUL N. ROTH, No. 809 Montgomery street, San Francisco. 9$v20-lamg4 H. 8. CROCKER & CO., Importing Stationers, DEALERS IN BLAN HK BOOKBS, Envelopes, Writing Paper, NEWS, BOOK, AND FLAT PAPERS. CHEAPEST AND LARGEST ESTABLISHMENT IN THRE STATE. STEAM PRINTING ESTABLISHMENT. Everything in the Printing line at SHORT NOTICE AND LOW RATES. Nos. 42 and 44 J Street, BACRAMENTO. Ka” ORDERS PROMPTLY FILLED, Q4vloxtf SAN ANTONIO PIONEER POTTERY. DANIEL BRANNAN, Proprietor. A Complete Assortment of s TON E waAR EE, Such as Churns, Butter Pots, Preservo Jars, Jugs, Beer Bottles, etc., etc. Also Chemical Ware, of Sorts Made to Order. We manufacture to order Terra Cotta Equal to the Best French. Samples on hand, EF.IR B BRICK. A No, 1 article made to order, warranted supetior to any imported. Flower Pots and Ornamental Vases . Of all sorts and sizes. 200,000 on hand. . With our patent machinery and supevior workmen we ehallenge competition. Also, PIRE CLAY, MODELING CLAY and FIRE) SAND, all of extva quality, for sale, k@" Orders promptly attended to, and goods put up and shipped with care to all parts of the country. Brooklyn, Alameda County. By20-t£ ' “SHAC TIO eS ‘South Point Mills, Berry Street, Between Third and Fourth, San Francisco. Orders from he Conny, promptly attended to, All kinds of Stair Material furnished to order. Wood and Ivory Turners. Billlard Balls and Ten Pins, Fancy Newels and Ra’usters, Important to Californians. The Ramie Plant. This valuahle fibre plant, peculiarly favorable for cultivation on the Pacific Coast, is not a new discovery, but the recently-invented methods of manufacturing its fibres into a large variety of heautiful and durable goods OHEAPLY, is what has recently given it great popularity and significanco. [Ilustrated in the Scientijic Press, January 1, 1870,]Advantages of Cultivating Ramie. The plant has no enemies; mildew is said not to afiect it. The crop pays manifold better than cotton or any other farming production now cultivated. It is a superior fibre in every respect, It works equally well with silk and with worsted chain. It takes fast colors, and it always hasa silky lustre; it surpasses all other fihres in wear, Whoever goes into the cultivation of Ramie now, will find great extra profit in the sale of roots and cuttings in the next rain season. There is an assured market for Ramie, Weare authorized hy wealthy English dealers in fibres to buy all the Ramie fibre that can he procured in California for years to come. Roots of the Ramie for salo at $25 per hundred; 20 per cent. off to the trade, Address, HENRY HUGHES & J. S. SILVER, 302 Battery street, San I'rancisco. WONDERFUL 1v20-im THE GREATEST EVER MADE, Miaving Enffied the Ingenulty of Chemlsts and Physiologists for Ages Past. DR. CROWLY’S EMERALD HAIR BALM. No EXAGGERATION, but a stern reality, verified by the undersigned : Dear Doctor :—I feel much pleasure to inform you that your “ Emerald Hair Balm“ has caused the growth of hair on iny hcad—having only used one of your hottles, although I had been bald for twenty-five years. You are quite at liherty to use this intimation as yoe please, Yours truly, JOHN STAPLETON, a California street, San Francisco. To W. J, Crowly, M. D,, No, 20 Montgomery sircet, San Francisco. asvld-3m SCIENTIFIC PRESS BOOK AND JOB PRINTING OFFICE, No. 414 Clay Street, San Francisco, Below Sansome, . . o SPAULDING & BARTO, PROPRIETORS, EVERY VARIETY OF PRINTING, FOR Business Men, Corporations AND ALL EXECUTED IN THE BEST MANNER, AT REASONABLE PRICES. Music Printing Executed correctly and with dispatch, Home, Swext Homn, a 2 . TS Z-Tr g—e:-8 AS 7 oe @ Mid pleas-ures and pal a ces, “Live and Let Live.” Is a good old adage, and we shall adopt it as our own. We do not pretend to do work at" less than cost,” as. some people sdvertise to do; but we do claim to do all kinds of printing as cheap as it can ho done on this. Coast—and we believe as cheap as it Is DONE in Chicago. Customers, in the country or city, are invited to callin person at our offico, or send their orders hy mail or ex-. press, and they will be fairly dealt with. SPAULDING & BARTO. Scientific Press Office, 414 Clay Street

138. SCIENTIFIC PRESS. [Frpruary 26,1870. Our Agents. Our Frrenns oan do much in ald of our paper and the cause of practical knowledge and science, by assisting Agents in their labors of canvassing, by lending their influence and encouraging fayors. Weintend to send none but worthy men. Trnveling Agents, We. H, Murnay, California and Nevada, 8, H, Henrme—California, Resident Agents, CENTERVILLE, Alameda Co., Cal.—L. G. Yaten. OaELAND—W. H, Hardy, SaoramMenTo—A. S, Hopkins, No. 70 J street. JAOESON, Amador Co., Cal.—G. §. Andrews. Treasure City, Nev.—Thos. Starz. Carson Crry, Nev.—dJohn G, Fox. TREASURE Crry, Nev.—J. 1. Rohertson. SHerManrown, NeEv.—P. C, Renfrew. SILVER Crry AND Inano TeR.—Sam. Heidelberger. SmLver Crry, Idaho—J. Caples. HELENA, Montana—E. W. Carpenter. Buaox Haws, C. T.—Harper M. Orahood. CENTRAL Crry, C. T.—Richards & Crane. GEORGETOWN, C. T.—John A. Lafferty, Postmaster. Denver Crry, C. T.—Woolworth & Moffat. CHEYENNE, D. T.—Robert Beers, Onaga, N. T.—Barkalow & Brothers, PHILsDELPHtA, Pa.—Fitler, Quigg & Co, Lonpon—George Street, 30 Cornhill, E. C. Henson & Menez, 41 Park Row, New York. A. O. Enox, City Soliciting and Collecting Agent, THE large majority of United States and Foreign Patents grantPacific coast during the past few years, have been obtained through the agency of Drewsy & Co., publishers of the Screnriric Press. Established in the year 1860, we have an extensive patent library, with full record of cases on this coast, and can give the best and ed to inventors on the most reliable advice as to the patentability of new inventions. THE NEW AGE, A WEEELY JOURNAL OF SIXTEEN Paces, The ** Official Organ” of the I. 0. O. F.on the Pacific Coast. Is devoted to Odd Fellowship, the Ants AND ScIENOES and GeneraL LITERATURE ; and asa family paper is not surpassed by any journal in the United Statey. Subscription price per year by mail, $5, Delivered in the city, per month, 50 cents. Office, Odd Fellows' Hall, 327 Montgomery street, San Francisco. 19v19 HAYWARD & COLEMAN IMPORTERS AND REFINERS —or— a IHluminating, Lubricating, —AND— PAINT OILS, OONSISTING OF KEROSENE, LARD, SPERM, ELEPHANT, POLAR, TANNERS, NEATSFOOT, BOILED AND RAW LINSEED, CASTOR AND CHINA NUT. —ALSO— Spirits of Turpentine and Alcohol. Lamps and Lamp Stock! An elegant andcomplete assortment, SOLE IMPORTERS OF Devoe’s Illnminating Oil? PATENT CANS. Svl7-tf 414 Front street, San Francisco. QCCIDENTAL Insurance Company, OF SAN FRANCISCO, Cash Cnpitnl, +» + + + 300,000 GOLD COIN. Office 3. W. corner of Montgomery and California streets,Fire and Marine Insurance. All Losses paid in U. S, Gold Coin. A. G, STILES, President. B, RoTHSCHILD, Secretary, 2ovl7 THe Mining and Scientific Press, pnhlished at San Francisco, California, hy Dewey & Co., is a handsome illustrated sixteen-page weekly, and ono of the most valuable and interosting exchanges that comes to our table. Subscription price, $4 per year.—Jnventors' a Afechanics' Journal, ‘ PATENT CHAIR SPRING. PURINGTON & MAYOUX’S PATENT, NOY. 30, 1869. This is the best Chair Spring yet invented, and will undoubtedly supersede all other devices of tbe kind, as itis SIMPLER, CHEAPER, AND MORE DURABLE. As a simple article of comfort and ease, it has no superior, and only needs to he tried to commend itself to universal and lasting favor. The Springs seen attached to the front legs of the chair in the engraving enables the person sitting in the seat, with very little effort, to give themselves A Gentle and Easy Rocking Motion, And also to rest themselves by change of position, by a very slight movement. It renders a common chair, at a trifling expense, equal or superior, in many respects, to a rocking chair. ; The advantage of this Spring over all others consists in the manner of attaching it to the chair by the simple turning of a nut, which nut is also securely, easily and quickly adjusted to the Spring in a manner impossible for it to hecome inadvertently detached. The engravings sbow tbe parts both detached and as adjusted to the chair. The nut is made of metal, and is provided with a screw thread, so that it can be serewed to the leg of an ordinary chair; and instead of weakening and splitting the leg, as in the case where a hole is bored and a screw inserted to hold and attach the nut, this method strengthens it also be very quickly and easily put on or removed. The ease and convenience in applyiog the spring to the nutis readily scen. The nut can The top of the nut is provided with a collar or shoulder, and also an incline groove around tbe outer surface, so that the smaller end of the pan can he screwed to the nut; and its top coil being brought firmly against the shoulder, all oscillation from side to side is prevented. uninjured in its original form. When the nuts are taken off, the chair is THIS IS A CALIFORNIA INVENTION, And a superior article is now being manufactrred. For particulars apply to A. MAWOUX, Marysville, Or inquire of PAUL N. ROTH, No. 809 Montgomery street, San Francisco. 9$v20-lamg4 H. 8. CROCKER & CO.,

Importing Stationers, DEALERS IN BLAN HK BOOKBS, Envelopes, Writing Paper, NEWS, BOOK, AND FLAT PAPERS. CHEAPEST AND LARGEST ESTABLISHMENT IN THRE STATE. STEAM PRINTING ESTABLISHMENT. Everything in the Printing line at SHORT NOTICE AND LOW RATES. Nos. 42 and 44 J Street, BACRAMENTO. Ka” ORDERS PROMPTLY FILLED, Q4vloxtf SAN ANTONIO PIONEER POTTERY. DANIEL BRANNAN, Proprietor. A Complete Assortment of s TON E waAR EE, Such as Churns, Butter Pots, Preservo Jars, Jugs, Beer Bottles, etc., etc. Also Chemical Ware, of Sorts Made to Order. We manufacture to order Terra Cotta Equal to the Best French. Samples on hand, EF.IR B BRICK. A No, 1 article made to order, warranted supetior to any imported. Flower Pots and Ornamental Vases . Of all sorts and sizes. 200,000 on hand. . With our patent machinery and supevior workmen we ehallenge competition. Also, PIRE CLAY, MODELING CLAY and FIRE) SAND, all of extva quality, for sale, k@" Orders promptly attended to, and goods put up and shipped with care to all parts of the country. Brooklyn, Alameda County. By20-t£ ' “SHAC TIO eS ‘South Point Mills, Berry Street, Between Third and Fourth, San Francisco. Orders from he Conny, promptly attended to, All kinds of Stair Material furnished to order. Wood and Ivory Turners. Billlard Balls and Ten Pins, Fancy Newels and Ra’usters, Important to Californians. The Ramie Plant. This valuahle fibre plant, peculiarly favorable for cultivation on the Pacific Coast, is not a new discovery, but the recently-invented methods of manufacturing its fibres into a large variety of heautiful and durable goods OHEAPLY, is what has recently given it great popularity and significanco. [Ilustrated in the Scientijic Press, January 1, 1870,]Advantages of Cultivating Ramie. The plant has no enemies; mildew is said not to afiect it. The crop pays manifold better than cotton or any other farming production now cultivated. It is a superior fibre in every respect, It works equally well with silk and with worsted chain. It takes fast colors, and it always hasa silky lustre; it surpasses all other fihres in wear, Whoever goes into the cultivation of Ramie now, will find great extra profit in the sale of roots and cuttings in the next rain season. There is an assured market for Ramie, Weare authorized hy wealthy English dealers in fibres to buy all the Ramie fibre that can he procured in California for years to come. Roots of the Ramie for salo at $25 per hundred; 20 per cent. off to the trade, Address, HENRY HUGHES & J. S. SILVER, 302 Battery street, San I'rancisco. WONDERFUL 1v20-im THE GREATEST EVER MADE, Miaving Enffied the Ingenulty of Chemlsts and Physiologists for Ages Past. DR. CROWLY’S EMERALD HAIR BALM. No EXAGGERATION, but a stern reality, verified by the undersigned : Dear Doctor :—I feel much pleasure to inform you that your “ Emerald Hair Balm“ has caused the growth of hair on iny hcad—having only used one of your hottles, although I had been bald for twenty-five years. You are quite at liherty to use this intimation as yoe please, Yours truly, JOHN STAPLETON, a California street, San Francisco. To W. J, Crowly, M. D,, No, 20 Montgomery sircet, San Francisco. asvld-3m SCIENTIFIC PRESS BOOK AND JOB PRINTING OFFICE, No. 414 Clay Street, San Francisco, Below Sansome, . . o SPAULDING & BARTO, PROPRIETORS, EVERY VARIETY OF PRINTING, FOR Business Men, Corporations AND ALL EXECUTED IN THE BEST MANNER, AT REASONABLE PRICES. Music Printing Executed correctly and with dispatch, Home, Swext Homn, a 2 . TS Z-Tr g—e:-8 AS 7 oe @ Mid pleas-ures and pal a ces, “Live and Let Live.” Is a good old adage, and we shall adopt it as our own. We do not pretend to do work at" less than cost,” as. some people sdvertise to do; but we do claim to do all kinds of printing as cheap as it can ho done on this. Coast—and we believe as cheap as it Is DONE in Chicago. Customers, in the country or city, are invited to callin person at our offico, or send their orders hy mail or ex-. press, and they will be fairly dealt with. SPAULDING & BARTO. Scientific Press Office, 414 Clay Street