The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1884-11-21
The 9etllorsat.
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 81, 1884
POPULAR scIExcE.

The Greenland whale has mode
Of ingestion somewhat unique, gulplng
great volumes of water into Its mouth
and then strainlng nut, through its
whalebone sieve, the small anImals
which the water may contain.
Fresh water worIns, like the leech
aud sarthworm, breathe by the s'<ln.
The body Is always covered by q Wis
cid auid, which has the proparly Of
absorbing air. The air Ia, therefore,
brought into Immediate contact with
tho soft skin, underneath which lies q
dense network Of blood vessels.
Drinking water seems 10 DO furn-
ished nearly everywhere outside Of
America In q ring bottle with u
neck about an lnch and half Ia d.
ameter and long enough 10 be COM
fortably grasped. In india these ew-
ers are made Of pottery, In order 10
keep the water cool, aud Il Is wonder
ful how we'll they accomplish this
considering the climate. Elsewhere
the bottles are Of glass, varying some
whstin shape.
Fat people have now their choice
between four systems OF reducing
their weight: l. the original bant-
Ing, which consists OF eating nothing
containlug starch, sugar or fat. 2
The German banting, which allows
fat, but forbIds sugar or starch. A
Munich system, which consists OF be-
Ing clothed In wool and sleeping In
flannel blankets instead Of sheets. 4.
Not eating and drinking at tho same
time.
There Is asuuken forest In New Jer-
sey which has been mioed for timher
over seventy years. TIE Industry OF
digging the sunkea logs Il carried
on by fhe people Of Dennisville. . VII
lage which was brought into existence
through the buried wealth of lumber
Ia Its vicinity. over the sunken for
est trees Of large size are growing, and
ia many instances these are cut away
TO reach the more valuable timber 8
or 4 feet below the surface. The
sunken trees are OF enormous size.
Their age IL q matter Of curious con
lecture. II Is probable they were bur-
led many centuries ago by the sction
Of an earthquake.
The rate OF the blood current gener-
ally increases with the activity OF the
animal, being most rapid. In insects,
however, IL Is comparatively slow, but
this Is because the air ls taken 10 the
blood->ihe whole body being bathed
10 air, 50 that the blood has no need
to hasten to . special organ. How
ever, activity nearly doubles the rate
OF pulsatIon In @ be. The motion in
the arteries Is several times faster
than In the veIns, but dlminishes as
the distanceifrom the heart Increases.
In the carotid Of the horse, the blood
moves I23 inches per second, In that
Of man sixteen In the capIl.aries oi
man one TO two inches per minute
In those Of frog one inch.
The japanese appear 10 be deter
mined to render themselves, as far -
possible, independent Of foreign coun.
tries. They have, says the Pharma-
ceutical Journal, established In Toxic
a factory for the production OF phar-
maceutlcal chemicals on large scale
A company with a capital Of about
$40. 600 has been formed for this pur.
pose. or this amount the govern
ment has contributed oue-half free OF
interest for twenty years, besides
making free grant of land and erec
ting the necessary buildings. A sim
liar Company Is taking up the utiliza-
ton OF the waste sake from the native
brewerIes in the manuiacture Of alco-
hoI, and the manufacture Of bleaching
powder on large scale has been com