The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-12-14
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

Manufacturing establishments Of
Allentown, Pa. give employment TO
1900 girls.
Jesse George is the pioneer peanut
raiser of Tennessee. he made his first
crop in 1850, and now has immense
fields under cultivation.
DIR. Werner Siemens has demon
strated by experiment that intensely hot
gases do not emit light, 80 that light
given by heated gas must come from
Some friend of mankind has in
vented bedroom alarm by which TIE
clerk in the Office can wake . guest at
any hour without sending stalwart
porter to alarm the entire hall. - Chicago
Herald.
Date palm trees have been success
fully grown in California. They are Of
slow growth, and do not come up until
the fourteenth year. A man in Salano
County has two of the trees in bearing
condition, with handsome crops of fruit
on then.-San Francisco Chronicle.
in bean-growing districts the crop
Is now mainly harvested by . machine
drawn by single horse, which cuts the
stems of the beans Just below the sur
face, leaving the crop standing. II
greatly decreases the labor of harvest
ing and saves the bean stems and leaves
from being mixed with dirt, as in the
oldmethod of hand-pulling.-Erchange.
"A new industry has recently sprung
up in Eastport, Me-. which consists in
boxing herring. Seventy persons, most
ly women, are employed in this work,
and $4,000 fish are prepared every
week. They are carefully freed from
all cartilaginous matter, thoroughly
cleansed, divided and packed in bunch
es in boxes lined with tinfoil.-Portland
argus.
Judge Swan, who has passed some
months on the Queen Charlotte Islands
in the interest of the United States Fish
Commission, reports the discovery of q
new food fish, which he calls the black
cod. He says it is one of the finest fish
he has ever seen, and is caught In great
numbers by dredging in deep water,
and, when sailed, Is more tender and
palatable than codfish.-N. 7. TSibune-
The Scientific american mentions
the decline in the price of copper as
likely to lead to an increased demand
for that material in building. At present
the material for a copper roof costs only
about half as much more as tin, and as
the latter must be replaced and reprinted
about once In three years and in fifteen
or twenty years needs replacing alto
gether, the copper, which never needs
painting, and which is practically indie
structible, is much the cheaper material
in the end.
"A company has been organized by
persons living in Philadelphia and Cape
May to catch porpoises, by means of q
net invented for that special purpose,
and convert them into oil, leather and
fertilizers. Those products of the
sportive porpoise are said to be -partic-
ularly valuable, but hitherto the dill
Guilty has been to catch the purpose.
The new net with which the company Is
to make war is capable of accommodate
ing $50 of them at q time. -Philadel-
delphia Press.
Useful applications of electricity
continue to multiply. One of the latest
is to use it for running pump for rails
ing water. A machine invented In
Vermont has been tested at Middlebury
during the past summer, with very sat-
isfactory results. 1t forced water from
a creek through 700 feet of pipe up sn
elevation of eighty feet, delivering sixty
gallons per hour. The comparative
cost of this power over the windmill
has not yet been determined, we believe;
but it has the advantage of being con-
slant, and doubtless will become, if it is
not now, q cheap as well as an effective
source of poverty 2. Examiner.