The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1880-04-15
FACTS AND FIGURES.

the fall in the price of tea has
caused panic in the London market.
MIR. Robert E. Hannum. of North
Chester, Pa. has COW that gives
twenty-seven quarts of milk per day.
The Pullman Car Company has just
closed S275, 900 black walnut lumber
contract, the largest hardwood lumber
purchase ever made in Detroit.
The immense importance of purity
of the air is shown by the fact that from
1000 to 1000 gallons of air are daily
brought into contact with the blood in
the lungs, and that the whole of the
blood Of the body is thus presented to
the air about thousand times every
day.
The New York Sun of recent
date says: The lights in Menlo Park are
still aglow.s The number has been
neither augmented nor diminished. 1t
is Mr.. Edison's intention not to use
any more of the unannealed globes. The
annealing furnaces are in course of con-
structiOn. -t 7
DIR. Kasman finds that zinc. intro
duced into steam boilers for preventing
incrustation. effects the purpose where
the waters are selentic; but where the
waters contain carbonates of lime,
magnesia and iron, zinc does not pre-
vent incrustation. The zinc first be-
comes brittle and porous, and is then
rapidly reduced to powder.
"A statement of the internal reve-
nue. receipts for the last nine months
shows that since the reduction of the
tax on snuff and manufactured tobac-
co there has been q decrease in the
revenue from these articles of about
81, 800, 900, but an. increase from all
sources, including the augmented re-
ceipts from cigars. ETC., of S1.0SO, 396.
Over fifty patents have been
granted for different kinds Of cow
mixers, thirteen in England and forty
in America. These machines have been
divided into three classes: First, tube
mixers; second, sucking machines;
third, mechanical hand-milkers. The
first are tappers, the second suckers,
and the third squeezers and strippers.
Some devices are formed of combina-
'tions of these classes.
Cares process for making cast-iron
magnets has been published. The
Nature says that a soft and slightly car.
buretted metal is, melted in earthen
crucibles, and before the metal is
poured into the molds from 18 to Is pei
cent. of steel filling is added. An addi.
tion of 4 to LIS per cent. of nickel
and OBS of copper, or 30 per cent. o.
tin and 0.5 per cent. of copper, is also
made, in order that the metal may
stand tempering at a cherry-red heat
According to the Verhandlungen
the organ of the Berlin Geographical
Society, Captain Belknap, of the United
States ship Tuscorora, has made tn,
| deepest sea measurement on record
In the North Pacific Ocean, at latitud,
forty-four degrees. ffty-fiye minutes
north and longitude one hundred ant
| fifty-two degrees twenty-six minute
east, Greenwich. he reached the -amaz
ing depth of eight Thousand five hun
dred and thirteen meters. or nearly fiv
and a quarter miles.
Statistics show that there has beel
a gradual and steady increase in tn
average length of mans life since tn
sixteenth century. Then it was onl
eighteen years. Now it is forty-t1ree' il
the United States, forty-two in Franc
and forty-five in England. Much O
this increased longevity has been due t.
the improved condition of living anon,
all classes, and the influence of GOO
living, home comforts, etc., is shown a
the present time by the fact that wealth,
people average twelve years more o
life than the poor.
Experiments have lately been mad
with the electric light on the eyes of
number of persons for the purpose o
testing its influence oh visual percep
tions and sensations of colors. 1t ha
been found that letters, spots and color
are perceived at a much greater dis
tance through the medium of the cleo
trio light than by day or gaslight. Tn
sensation of yellow was increased sixty
fold compared to daylight, red six-fold
and blue two-fold. Eyes which wit
difficulty could distinguish colors b
day or gaslight were much aided by tn
electric light. ,t .et =, 81