. The literary digest. t is availableto operate it by electric power. For the scrubbing-brushes, sand-paper blocks or blocks of stone may be substituted, and thusthe machine may be used to dress down wood floors or springs always keep the brushes in proper contact with thefloor. A suitable rheostat or governing device is provided onthe handle, and the motor is fully protected by fuses. The ma-chine weighs about 300 pounds, and its frame is about 30 inchessquare. These machines have been in actual use in various buildings,in one instance doing work on eight floors in two and one-half
. The literary digest. t is availableto operate it by electric power. For the scrubbing-brushes, sand-paper blocks or blocks of stone may be substituted, and thusthe machine may be used to dress down wood floors or springs always keep the brushes in proper contact with thefloor. A suitable rheostat or governing device is provided onthe handle, and the motor is fully protected by fuses. The ma-chine weighs about 300 pounds, and its frame is about 30 inchessquare. These machines have been in actual use in various buildings,in one instance doing work on eight floors in two and one-halfhours, which previously required ten and one-half hours to per-form by hand. The three brushes are so arranged in relation toone another that the short axis of the middle one is always par-allel with the longer axis of the side brushes, and vice , in operation, the machine scrubs a path as wide as thedistance between the outer ends of the side brushes, when theystand end to end, as shown in the ELECTRIC FLOOR-SCRUBBER. export from the French wine-producing regions to the Moham-medan colonies of France. The Revue Viticolc, Paris, gives thefollowing abstract of the proposition made by the Algerian paper : The hope of finding in the native population that surroundsus a market for our wines was yesterday a dream, but will per-haps be a reality in the future. Unlikely as this hypothesis mayseem, science enables us to hope for its transformation into afact. It is perhaps to the illustrious Pasteur that our colonists willowe the opportunity to sell the overplus of production that givesthem anxiety. . A French chemist, M. Rosensteil, has deviseda process of sterilizing the must, based on Pasteurization, andthus makes of the juice of the grape a drink that tastes and lookslike wine, while, not being fermented, it can not fall under theprohibition of the Koran and can consequently be employed bythe natives. We should say that the new drink has a fresh and very c
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