The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-07-06
INDUSTRIAL, STATISTICAL
AND TECHNICAL.

A MADRID paper gives some stats
ties showing the relative healthfulness
of various great cities. The annual
mortality for each 1, 900 inhabitants in
Madrid is $50; in Vienna, 32.7: in
Berlin, 300; in Rome, 29.3; New
York, 27.9; Turin, PAS; Brussels, 24.s;
Paris, 23.2; London, 22.2; Philadel-
phia, 20.3.
THREE years ago plantation of the
Eucalyptus globulus australian gum
uee) was begun at Hyeres. in the
south of France. Two thousand seed
lings few inches high We're planted
in one hectare (2.47Il English acreS).
They have now reached a height of
thirty feet, and the stems have diam
eter of fourteen inches three feet from
the ground. Plantations of the trees
are becoming common in Southern
France. The wood is largely used in
Algeria in the building of carriages.
THE Boston Journal Of Chemistry
asserts that strychnia is never used by
"distillers OF whisky-manipulators in
their compomdings or mixings." A
few grains of the poison would render
barrel of the liquor so bitter. that it
could not be drank. 1t is possible that
strycllnia may be used in malt liquors:
still, the required bitter can be Oh
tanned from less dangerous substances
at a small cost; and the Joat7noI has
never known, through analysis or the
testimony of chemists, that strychnia
has been employed in these beverages.
\ YOUNG Cincinnati girl has con-
structed table showing woman's
chances of marriage between the ages
of fourteen and forty years. It's based
upon aScertained facts concerning the
ages at which 1000 women, taken at
random mot by their husbands, but by
the compiler of the table,, were mar
ried. The table represents, therefore,
tIiC 1IuIiDCI VI III al
which every woman has at the ages
given. A good idea of the table can
be formed from the statement that it
begins with giving the girl Of fourteen
thirty-two chances, runs up to the girl
of twenty or twenty-one with 233
chances, aud from that point rapidly
decreases to the lady of thirty-ninc
whom it awards but four chances.
NJ. COLAsANTI has pursued series
of experiments, reported in the Enylish
Uecltanic, which go to show that germs
of organisms will resist a much greater
degree of cold than the perfected or
ganisms are capable of sustaining. A
number of eggs were incased in a
mixture of ice and salt from one to
two hours, during which the tempera-
ture of the mass went down to twenty
deg. Fair. in the course of thirty to
forty Misunderstanding again to twenty
four deg. at the end of the second hour.
Several of the eggs thus treated cracked
their shells, and their contents frozc
solid. The others were taken out,
washed and dried, and placed in the
hatching-eyen, whose temperature
ranged between thirty-six and forty
deg. At the end of ten days the eggs
were examined, and in each one the
embryo had developed normally, in no
respect differing from the development
of the embryo i'll eggs that were put
into the Matching box without previous
subsection to cold
LAST fall the Turkish Government
entered into contract with parties on
this side for large quantities Of car
tridges, but the manufacturers or con-
tractors having reason subsequently to
doubt the ability of the Sultan to pay
for them, prudently suspended opera
tons. We have reason to believe,
however. that within a short time past
such arrangements have been made as
will secure, if they have not already
secured, the completion of these sus-
pended contracts and the delivery of
the war material. 1t is also under
stood that the Russian and German
Governments have lately been in the
copper market to some eXtent-a fact
not without significance in view of eX-
isting complications between Turkey
and her powerful neighbors. Ameri-
can lake copper, it is well known, is
the best in the world for cartridge
manufacture, and its superior qualities
in this respect and for other war ma
terial secure for it a high place in the
European markets.-N. Y. Bulletin.