The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1888-01-05
SCIENCE ANp INDUSTRY.

Providence. r. l.. has just turned
out solid 55.000-pound casting.
"A new undertaking in the fruit line
is the shipment of Florida oranges to
Europe.
East Chicago is to be built up with
extensive car manufactures, steel
plants aud slaughtering establishments.
Tho output of the Indiana coal
fields for 1887 win be greater than for
any year in the past history of the
State.
The sum OF 81, 900. 600 has been be-
queathed by Mr.. Richard Berrigc for
use in advancing economic and sani-
tary science in Great Britain.
1t is estimated that 36 .675. 900 yards
Of silk ribbon. equivalent to about 22.-
200 miles. have been made in Paterson,
N. j.. during the past year. - Boston
Budget.
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.
Professor Edward Hull. director Of
the Geological Survey of Ireland, in a
paper read before the British Associa-
tion at its last meeting. says that many
geographers have overlooked the effect
Of continents in attracting the oceanic
waters adjoining them. Hetbinks that
the attractive force Of the land plies up
the water Of the ocean all along the
great continental coasts IN r 177S1i0eT.
"A Yankee scientist IN writing 81
the precious stones peculiar 70 the
United States, has been saying some
nice things about chlorastrolitc. gem
peculiar to Michigan. "The only place
in the world where it is found" no
says, "Is Isle Royale. Lake Superior.
This island, belonging to tho 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 largo 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.
IN y Ledger.
From many observations on healthy
men, DR.. Theodoroff, of St. Petersburg,
learns that the vital capacity of tho
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 tho same law.-Arsansdc
Trareier.
"A report based upon AIN inspection
of 1,214 factories in 125 different
branches of work in Russia states that
the hours Of labor there vary from six
to twenty, and thatin one ortwo special
instances workmen were compelled to
labor twenty-four hours uninterrupt-
edly. These differences are purely ar
bitrary and not controlled by the kind
of work. In the same district in
tho same sort of work there is somc-
times adherence of eleven hours in the
amount of work required in day in
the different factories.