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Show A Kew Discovery. In the course of conversation at Cornell Cor-nell university, Mr. Atkinson, the Boston Bos-ton economist, stated that a Kew Eng- : land genius has recently discovered a cheap method of dissolving ziuc by combining com-bining it with hydrogen, and producing a solution called zinc water. This liquid, if applied to certain woods', notably, white wood, makes it absolutely fire proof, and at a low cost. Mr. Atkinson regards this discovery as one of tho most important of the age, and one that will surely revolutionize fire insurance, as well as immensely decrease the loss by fire. The invention is kept secret for the present. Only one foreigner Sir Lyon Playfair, the Euglish scientist knows of it. He corroborates all that is claimed for the invention, and says the inventor is a bungling chemist, but that he has a faculty of blundering into the choicest secrets in nature's laboratory. As soon as patents are perfected and capital interested, in-terested, zinc water will become an article arti-cle of commerce. |