Mower County transcript., 1888-01-11
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.
Providence, R. l., has just turned
out solid 55,000-pound casting.
East Chicago is to be built up with
extensive car manufactures, steel
plants and slaughtering establishments.
The output of the Indiana coal
fields for 1887 will be greater than for
any year in the past history of the
State.
The sum of $1,000, 900 has been be-
queathed by Mr.. Richard Berrige for
use in advancing economic and sani-
tary science in Great Britain.
But few people have any idea of
the rapid extension and development
of the electric lighting business in this
country. All the leading electric light
manufacturing establishments are
crowded with orders.
The South Brooklyn Ferry Com
pany have substituted women for men
rs collectors on both sides of the river.
They work ten hours day, and receive
salary of $50 per month. They have
not only proved themselves as efficient
as men. but more honest.
Ten saw-mills at and about
Truckee, New. this season, cut Al, ,OOO,-
600 feet of lumber. Last year the total
was 3S,000,O 900 feet Less than 13, OOO,-
900 feet of lumber is on hand at the
mills, and this will be cleaned out
before work can be resumed in the
spring.
Professor Edward Hull, director of
the Geological Survey of Ireland, in a
paper read before the British Associa-
ton at its last meeting, says that many
geographers have overlooked the effect
of continents in attracting the oceanic
waters adjoining them. He thinks that
the attractive force of the land piles up
the water of the ocean all along the
great continental coasts. y Ledger.
A Yankee scientist in writing of
the precious stones peculiar to the
United States, has been saying some
nice things about chlorastrolite. gem
peculiar to Michigan. 'The only place
in the world where it is found" he
says, 'Is Isle Royale. Lake Superior.
This island, belonging to the State of
Michigan, forty miles long. five miles
wide, and about twenty miles from the
mainland, is composed of amygdaloid
trap, in the almond-shaped cavities of
which the gem principally occurs.
About $1,000 worth are sold annu-
ally
"A man in Mexico, who was struck
by lightning and was supposed to be
dead, was restored to consciousness by
means of large quantity of cold water
which was thrown over him at the sug-
gestion of passer-by. 1t served to re-
establish respiration before the paraly-
sis Of the heart had become absolute,
and the patient recovered. In an ac-
count of the case, communicated to the
Mexican Academy of Medicine, it is
stated that the effect of the electric
shock on the system was very much
like that of an overdose of chloroform.
N. Y. Ledger.
From many observations on healthy
men, DR.. Theodoroff, of St. Petersburg,
learns that the vital capacity of the
lungs increases from morning till even
ing, decreasing again during the night.
After each meal, too, there is special
increase, followed by slight decrease;
the vital capacity being at its highest
shortly after dinner, and at its lowest
after getting up in the morning. The
force of inspiration and expiration fol-
lows nearly .ae same law.-Arkansaw
I1aveter.
"A report based upon an inspection
of 1,214 factories in 125 different
branches of work in Russia states that
the hours of labor there vary from six
70 twenty, and that in one or two special
Instances workmen were compelled to
labor twenty-four hours uninterrupt-
edly. These differences are purely az
bitrary and not controlled by the kind
of work. In the same district in
the same sort of work there is some
times difference of eleven hours in the
amount of work required in day in
the different factories.