The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-02-06
SCIENCE AND PROGRESS.

THE last peach crop in Delaware was
=. 9S1 .233 baskets, which sold for more
than 81, 100000.
BosroN exported more than 1000
packages of butter last year, or three
times as much as in 1878.
THE cotton trade at Charleston, S.
c., amounts to 500, 600, 900, and the rice
trade to 81, 100000 annually.
ABOUT s7O,OOO,OO have been made
by the farmers of the West by the rise
in grain, this season; but the railroads
have taken much of the profit by adj
vancing freight rates.
The representatives of the Bessemer
Steel Works of the United States held a
meeting recently at Philadelphia. Re-
ports from all points showed the trade
to be enjoying the highest prosperity
and the brightest prospects.
THERE was imported into the United
States in the nine months ending Sep
TENDER 1, 1879, the enormous amount of
1851, 949, 319 pounds of brown sugar;
"a, OOO, 900 gallons of molasses, and 49,.
OOO, 900 pounds of melada and sirup.
These were appraised at s66, l11,O21.
THE newest thing in the produce line,
or rather in the line of canned goods or
produce, is an establishment in New
Jersey for raising on large scale, by
the most approved methods, poultry for
canning, These goods will in the next
twelve months be distributed to every
part of the civilized world, as the enter
prise is in the hands of the largest
grocery firm in America.
THE remarkable output of the Robert
E. Lee Mine, at Leadville, one day re-
Gently, amounting to SllS,5OO as the
result of the labor of 40 men for II
hours, was so far beyond the experience
of even our greatest mines that it has
attracted universal attention, and was
telegraphed all over the land. This is
said to be the largest amount OF silver
ever raised in one day by any mine in
the world.
GERMAN telegraphic engineers have
lately been experimenting with alumni
ium as a material for telegraph wires.
This metal can easily be drawn out to
a very much finer gauge than is posi-
BILE with iron, and its conductibility is
twice as great as that of iron wire. Its
excessive cost has hitherto prevented
its use for the purpose indicated, but 1t
is found that an alloy of aluminium and
iron can easily be made, which will pro-
duce a wire both finer and stronger,
and less susceptible to atmospheric
changes than iron wire, while it IS
much superior as conducting me-
dunn.
A FRENCH company is said to have
been recently formed for the purpose OF
utilizing the products.of the Dead Sea.
An engineer last May visited the ground
to report on the feasibility of procuring
from its waters and shores soda, salt,
petroleum, sulphur, and other chemical
substances, to be brought by small
steamboat to the northwest shore, near
Jericho, and thence to be carried by
canals to the Mediterranean Sea at Jop-
pa. At the same point on the sea a
small factory will be put up to reduce
crude materials to apure and more com
pact state.
AN insect which produces species
of india-rubber has been recently dis
covered in the district of Yucatan, Cen
, trail America, bv an American explorer
, It is called neen, and belongs to tht
Coccus family; feeds on the mango
tree, and swarms in these regions. i
is of considerable size, yellowish-browr
in color, and emits peculiar oily odor
The body of the insect contains large
: proportion of grease, which is highly
! priced by the natives for applying to tn
t skin on occount of its medicinal proper
ties. When exposed to great heat tn
lighter oils of the grease volatilizes
|. leaving a tough wax behind, which
+ resembles shellac, and may be used to1
II making varnish or lacquer. Wher
e burnt, this wax produces a thick, semi
II fluid mass, like solution OF india
n rubber, and it is expected that TN
Il glutinous liquid will be very valuaol
l. for cement and waterprooing.
4 ANEwLY discovered process for tn
- preservation of dead bodies has bee
y, made in Germany. The patentee ha
ho,~ ;,d,ood hv tho Government