Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-06-29
INDUSTRIAL, STATISTICAL
AND TECHNICAL.

| IL UtbCypCUS yCOottLtCS (AuStIdlldn Suln-
tree was begun at Hyeres, in the
| south of France. Two thousand seed
| lings few inches high were planted
| in one hectare (2.4711 English acreS).
They have now reached a height of
| thirty feet, and the stems have a 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 Observation-Disclosures in
| their cOmpOundingS or miXingS." A
few grains of the poison would render
a barrel of the liquor 50 bitter that it
could not be drank. 1t is possible that
strychnia may be used in malt liquors !:
! still, the required bitter can be OBJ
| tanned from less dangerous substances
at small cost; and the Journal has
never known, through analysis or the
testimony of chemists, that Strychnia
! has been employed in these beverages.
A YOUNG Cincinnati girl has con-
| structed q table showing a woman S
chances Of marriage between the ages
Of fourteen and forty years. tits based
upon aScertained facts concerning the
ages at which 1000 women, taken at
random (nOt, by their husbands, but by
the compiler of the table,, were mar
rled. The table represents, therefore,
the number of chances in a thousand
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
| thlrty-tWo chances, runs up to the girl
OF twenty or tWenty-One with 233
chances, and from that point rapidly
| decreases to the lady Of thirty-nine
whom it awards but four chances.
M. COLASANTI has pursued a series
Of experiments, reported in the English
| -Nechd1ljc, 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 temporal
| 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 frOZe
solid. The others were taken out,
washed and dried, and placed in the
hatchingOven, 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 in eggs that were put
into the hatching-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
| lions. 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-
listing complications between Turkey
and her powerful neighbors. Ameri-
can lake copper, it is well known, is
the best III the world for cartridge
manufacture, and its superior qualities
in this respect and for other war ma
terial secure for it high place in the
| European marketS.-N. 7. Bulletin.
THE New York Surrogate's Court
had novel and rather nice question
before it for determination recently
in regard to the estate of a deceased