Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-01-14
N STANDARD5 McMINNv1LLE TENNEssEE-sATURpAY JANl48
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

-frOVluence, II. l., mas Just Vurneu
out solid 55, 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 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 81 900, 600 has been be-
queathed by Mr.. Richard Berrigc 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
as collectors on both sides of the river.
They work ten hours day, and receive
a 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 A, 000,-
900 feet of lumber. Last year the total
was SO, 900, 900 feet. Less than Is, 000,-
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
geogaphers 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. N Y. Ledger.
"A Yankee scientist in writing OF
the precious stones peculiar to the
United States. has been saying some
nice things about chlorastrolito, gen
peculiar to Michigan. THE only place
in the world where it is found" he
says, as Isle Royale, Lake Superior
This island, belonging to the State o.
Michigan, forty miles long. five miles
wide, and about twenty miles from tn,
mainland, is composed of amygdaloit
trap. in the almond-shaped cavities o.
which the gem principally occurs
About $500 worth are sold annu
ally"
A man in Mexico, who was strucl
by lightning and was supposed to b,
dead, was restored to consciousness b,
means Of large quantity of cold watel
which was thrown over him at the sug
gestion Of a passer-by. 1t served to re
establish respiration before the paraly
sis of the heart had become absolute
and the patient recovered. In an &C
count of the case. communicated to tn
Mexican Academy of Medicine, it i
stated that the effect of the electro
shock on the system was very mucl
like that of an overdose of chloroform
N Y Ledger.
From many observations on healthy
men, Dr. Theodorof, of st. Petersburg
learns that the vital capacity of tn
lungs increases from morning till even
ing, decreasing again during the night
After each meal, too, there is specia
increase, followed by a slight decrease
the vital capacity being at its highcs
shortly after dinner, and at its loves
after getting up in the morning. TIL
force of inspiration and expiration fol
lows nearly the same law.-Arkansa,
Irareter.
A report based upon an inspection
of 1,2l4 factories in 1875 differen
branches OF work in Russia states tina
the hours of labor there vary from si
to twenty. and that in one ortwo specia
instances workmen were compelled t
labor twenty-four hours uninterrupt
eddy. These differences are purely al
bitrary and not controlled by the kin
of work. In the same district i
the same sort of work there is some
times adherence of eleven hours in tn
amount of work required in day i
p. the different factories.
MAnitoba's Census.