The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-02-20
SCIENCE AND PROGRESS.

THE kingdom of Siam is to be con-
nected with the telegraphic system of
the world.
DURING the year 1879 20 minor
planets were discovered, and their num-
Der is now 211.
ENGLISH and Scotch farmers and
capitalists are making large purchases
of late in Minnesota.
THE rush of trade is so great that the
trains on the trunk lines from the West
to the East are run at an average of only
Is minutes apart, day and night.
A GAs-ENGINE of II horsepower has
been introduced at Vincennes, Ind,
from Cologne, Germany, where it was
manufactured. 1t will operate the ma
chinery in large grain elevator just
erected in that city, and is the largest
engine of its kind ever brought into this
country.
ACCORDING to reasonable estimates,
this country produced 96O,0OO,OOO
pounds of butter last year, and $40, OOO,-
600 pounds of cheese. Of this great
quantity less than 4 per per cent. of the
butter was exported. OF cheese over
Al per cent. of the production was con-
sumed in Europe.
AN exchange says that this country is
now making more than One-third of all
the paper in the world. The product is
about 1880 tons daily, amounting to
about GAG, 500 tons per year. There are
now 927 mills, representing capital of
SlOO,0O0,OO0. These mills employ 49,
600 persons, who draw about $1,000, 900
in salaries per year.
A COMPANY has been organized in
Boston to construct asd operate rail-
road from Cairo, Egypt, through Port
Said, Damascus, to connect with the
Euphrates Valley Railroad, about to be
built by an English company. Branch
roads and extensions are provided for.
The Turkish Government has been
asked for concession of the right of
way.
DIR. FLETCHER of Washington strong
ly recommends the employment of the
spray of choral in the treatment of the
form of chronic bronchitis known as
"winter cough,'' which often offers so
obstinate resistance to remedies. A
solution of ten grains of choral to the
ounce of water, may be inhaled through
a steam atomizer morning and evening.
A NOVEL mode of preparing steel
has been suggested by Signor Guido
an Italian engineer. 1t consists in cleo
trolyzing water by means of dynamo
machine and smelling the carboniferous
ore by reducing it with the oxygen and
hydrogen gas obtained, and thus pro-
ducing either steel or pure malleable
iron at will. To turn out two tons
daily would, however, require the
constant use of 120-horse-power en-
CINE.
WITH single telephone held, say, to
the right ear, the transmitted voice ap-
pears to come from a distance to the
right; while with telephone held to
the left ear, it seems to arrive from the
left of the listener. With telephone to
each ear, if one ear be less sensitive
than the other, or if the telephone be
l,olI f,,r<ho,. from, that tho v-oioo
shifts to the side of the other
ear; and if both ears hear alike and
both instruments are equally near their
respective ears, the voice apparently
proceeds from the front of the observer.
LIEUT.. SEAToN, U. S. NJ, attributes
the origin of the Desert of Sahara to
the destruction of the forest with which
the banks of the Saharan streams were
once lined. The inhabitants, being
pastoral people, destroyed the forests to
secure pasturage. Consequent upon
the destruction of the forests, the peri
odical rains were replaced by rare and
short, though violent storms, the waters
from which, instead of soaking in as in
past ages, slipped by on the rocky
masses, carrying away the rich surface
mold and bringing about the drying of
the springs, and, as direct consequence,
of the rivers.''
But a very small proportion of the
vinegar sold in groceries is fit to be
taken into the human stomach. Sui
phuric acid and glucose enter largely
into its manufacture, instead of cider OF
pure spirits. The demand is for some |
thing sour and cheap; and, when de-