Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-10-26
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

The lumber trade of Apalachicola,
Fla, is becoming enormous. : 1t is ex-
pected that five hundred vessels will load
there during the coming commercial
year.-Chicago Times.
AT Astoria, Long Island, there are
established works for the production of
illuminating gas from petroleum. 1t is
claimed that the product is far superior
to that made from coal, but the most in
teresting fact is that it can be delivered
to consumers at from twenty five to fifty
cents per thousand.-N. Y. Post. :
-Amarantus retrofexus, weed
which has secured foothold over wide
areas, is cultivated by Arizona Indians
for its seed, which is quite prolific, and
has been fed to poultry in this State
with, it is thought, good fattening effect.
A recent analysis by Mr. Babcock shows
its root to be ':particularly rich in pot
ash. ~. 2. Tribune.
1t is quite commonly believed that
in running man descends at each stride
upon the ball of the foot, so that the arch
of the foot may serve as a spring to
break the shock. In his instantaneous
Photographs, however, Mr.. Muybridge
shows that either in walking, running
Or jumping, man-like all other ami
mails so far observed-alight upon the
heel.-St. Louis Globe.
Prof. Ponfick, of Breslau, has been
clearing up some of the popular doubts
concerning mushrooms. He says that
all the common ones are poisonous, but
cooking deprives them OF much of their
poison, though the water in which they
are boiled should be carefully thrown
away, and the esculent washed in two
or three waters. Dried mushrooms are
only safe after four months keeping.
The Staked Plains are fast losing
their reputation for being a barren des-
ert. Says the Crosby County (Texas)
Sun: 'sWe learn from a gentleman
just in from that section that the colony
of Quakers who are settled on. the
Staked Plains, in Crosby County, have
the finest crops this year that were ever
in Northern Texas. They have sent
word to the stockmen in that country
that they will sell corn at ten cents a
busnel less than it can be bought on the
railroad, and they will be prepared to
furnish any reasonable amount"
A man in Oregon has invented
way to easily remove sand out of a river.
He removed $4,000 cubic yards at cost
of $1,000, while by dredging the cost
would have been $4,000. The process
is to load a steamer by the stern, anchor
her head up stream, and then let her
turn her propeller. This loosens the
sand, which is carried away by the cur
rent. A steamer In that way deepened
the channel of the Columbia River
eighteen feet, by width of seventv-fiye
feet, in twenty minutes htcago Inter
Ocean.
Some scientific journals propose
that men of science should be called
'scientiates, and not ''scientists," and
that instead of using the phrase ''sci-
enti6c studies,' we should rather en-
ploy ''scjential studies.'' No doubt
these changes would harmonic our
expressions very closely with the italian
scienzia'i aaG scicJziali, but it is ex-
ceedingly. Questionable whether the
adaptiou OF these new words would add
much to precision of statement, when
the words now in use have very definite
meanings attached to them.-Philadel.
phia Press.