Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1877-12-27

me and half million oranges the
present year.
During the present year the United
states sent los, ,000. 900 yards Of cotton
goods abroad, ten times more than was
exported the year before.
/. The Amsdor (Cal.) Ledger reports
the discovery OF 9 great vein Of coal 10
Jackson Valley, al 3 quality finer than
was ever before found in California.
A glass company in Pittsburgh is
engaged on an order from Spain for
fifteen hundred dozen gobIsts, which
il will deliver at New York at forty
two ceDts dozen.
The Hands In the Pennsylvania rail-
road shops at Altoona are Just finishing
an order for sixty-eight engine cabs to
make good the number destroyed at
Pittsburgh during the riots.
According to the English. Meat and
Provision Trade Review, beef can be
bou IL in Belgrade at two cents per
pound, and forwarded to London, by
express train, In six days or less, ut q
cost Of one and half cents pound.
Fat pigs can be bought at five cents
per pound, and lambs at s. score.
1t is computed that the grain used
for LIQUORS in year in the U.-States
reaches 40, ,O00. coo bushels, which w0'd
make /, ,050. .000, 600 four-pound ioaves
OF bread. Great Britain has so, ,O00. 600
bushels of grain yearly. for the same
purpose, and annually imports fed To
the value OF <A00 OK, 600.
The reeults OF the recent inyestiea-
ti0ns Of the fora Of the three middle
latitsdes of this country by Sir Joseph
Hooker, goes 10 show that the vegeta-
tion resolves itself into three meridi-
onsl fioras, incomparably more diverse
than those presented by any similas
in the Old World, being in
fact, as for as the trees, shrubs and
many genera of herbace0us plants are
absolutely distinct.
The window. glass manufacturing In
terests Is now one of the-principal in
dustries of this country, and is destin-
ea eventually TO check the impOrta-
lion from France and Belgium. In
fsct, large quantities Of glass and glass
ware have been exported from the U-
States during the past year. There are
IN this country seveuty-twO glass fac
tories, of which twenty-seven are in
New jersey, in which State there is y
capital of $6, ,0Oo, 600 invested in the bu-
siness.
AT recent meeting Of the New York
Academy of Useful Arts, attention was
called to a simple method of fiitering
The air of sn apartment. The object Is
to free the air from dust, excessive
dampness, and possibly, from the
germs of malaria. The cOntrivance
consists essentially of tibrOus woven
fabric, strengthened by brass wire.
II il to be applied to windows and ven
tilatOrs, and may be of service on rail-
way cars to exclude dust. 1t has the
merit of checking drafts while admit
ting air. It's general use might tend to
prevent the spread OF malarial dieeas-
es, and modify The dangers that dirty
streets occasion to. the health OF city
residents.
A late number of the Lancet, say the
Scientific American, contains an arti-
Gle on inc heating OF differences se
tween the old allopathic and new mo-
meopatific schools. which is significant
of a great change in medical opinion,
and the possible future fusion of the
two schools. After briefly review ing
the origin Of the homeopathic schism,
and the subsequent warfare, the wri-
ter, DIR. Richardson, f. Il. s., says
that many CT the allopsthic physicians
have repounced all the heresies of the
past In the treatment OF acute diseases;
while homeopathic physicians have,
on their side, almost entirely abandoned
the use OF globules, and have .substitu
ted doses in tangible form, their rule
being to give a dose sufficiently large
to effect its purpose, but moi. SO large as
to discomfort the patient. Both schools
now use alike an0dynes, aperients, OPT
ates, anesthetlcs, tonics, gaivanism,
Turkish bath, and miner
al waters. In short, he says, we de-
fine our practice as rational medicine,
the application of the law Of
but Plus the application OF
the law of simiiars. :.
1t has long been known that the
green parts of plants are able in sum
light to decompOse caTbonic acid and
absorb the Carbon. To decide tire
U ucct l8u " ACttCk Pi0ute Con tuAO oP
carbon in any way than through their
leaves, j. W. Moll undertook u series
OF experiment., which led to the fol
lowing results: Leaves and parts OF
leaves which are kept cOntin-
ually in a place free from carbonic acid
never form any perceptible quantity Of
starch, even ifin immediate contact, by
over or. underground parts OF the plant,
with an atmosphere much richer in
scid than the air. Hence the
excess of carbanic acid that is at the
disposal of any portion you choose of a
plant, never causes the production OF
quantity of starch ia Leaf
or part of leaf united to it, If the leaf Is
kept in q space free from carbonic
acid. The formation of starch in leaf
in open air is not perceptibly FASTENED
when any other part of the same plant
is in place containing more carbOnic
acid than the atmospheric air. The
acid at the disposal of the
roots of plant, in the soil, neither
causes the formation of starch in leaf
from csrbonic acid nor per-
ceptibly hastens it il those in the open
air.
Fashion Notes.