The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-01-27
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

ELASTIC, springy wheels of the hicy-
Gle pattern can be used very advantage
ously on carriages, it is said. Made of
steel, nickel plated, and with rubber
tire, they cost about third more than
the best wooden wheels, but are more
durable and easier for riding.
THE proposed tunnel through Mont
Blanc is being seriously talked about in
France, and the French Government
have commissioned NJ. de Lepinaye to
draw up report of the scheme. The
estimated cost is S1SJ,00J, 900, and the
extreme length would be about eight
miles.
The Balloon Society of Great Britain
has been formed, its principal object be-
ing To bring together members of the
learned professions, scientific bodies,
and practical aeronauts, with view to
having observations made in different
parts of the world wherever accents take
place, whether by means of captive or
free balloons.
AFTER the execution of MenesclOu in
Paris the other day for the murder of
the little girl, Louise Deu, his remains
were conveyed to the anatomical thea
ter, and subjected to a singular expert
ment. DIR. Sappey injected under the
cutaneous tissue of the head some fresh
drawn blood from the carotid of dog.
The result was startling, for the color
, returned to the cheeks, there was per-
ceptiblc nervous tremOr, while the lips
slightly moved. The same treatment
applied to the body produced no effect.
A PENNSYLVANIA manufacturing
company has received large order for
machinery to be used in the develop
ment of an extensive salt mile at New
Iberia, La. The salt deposit is said to
/ be 500 feet thick, and extends under an
area of ia acres. 1t lies at q depth OF
! 100 feet from the surfsce, and it is pro-
posed to mine it much after the manner
of anthracite coal. The salt bed is said
to be the greatest in the world. The
farm of Joseph Jefferson adjoins the
territory under which the vein extends.
BALTIMORE packs more oysters than
any other city in the world. fifteen firms
with capital of g, 1873, 800 beng enga.
ged in the business. During the season
from September /, 1879, to May 10
1880, 7,277,972 bushels were brought tt
the CITY by 9,541 vessels, and 6,459, 1S:
bushels were packed, the value of the
product being 3,517, ,349. The firms il
the business pack fruit in the summer
employing 6,627 persons. The tota
catch In Maryland last season was 10,
69,012 bushels, G $3.50, ,492 being packed
2,022, $40 shipped out of the State ant
the balance used for local consumption
J SIR ROBERT CHRrsTIsoN, the grea
! Scotch chemist, has made some curiou
: observations on the effects of cold
J wet season in diminishing the norma
growth of trees. He makes out, on
: careful measurements, that comparing
, 1879 with 1878, eleven deciduous tree
not oaks-made on an average forty
one per cent. less growth in last yea
than in the year before. OF seventeen
d pine trees, the average deficiency wa
1 twenty per cent, and of seven oaks tn
, deficiency was ten per cent. so tina
! heat appears to have more to do wit
the making even of wood than moistur
t has. 1t is strange that the growth c
e the oak, which drops its leaves, seem
r less dependent on heat than that of tn
e pine, which we usually associate wit
e very cold regions; but, perhaps, it nee
0 not be the tree which is most stunted b
g cold which is most easily killed by il
G The arrest of growth may sometime
t be safeguard against vital injury.