Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1888-04-06
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

"A Newburg IN. W firm is build
ing 100 lawn mowers to fill an ordc
from India.
The industry of extracting oil from
cedar boughs is growing TO large pro
portions in Maine.
The saw-mlls of Maine now shiI
great quantities of baled sawdust to thu
market, where it is sold for packing
purposes and for bedding purposes.
1t appears, from IN article in q
French scientific Journal, that analyse:
have been made of articles found in
Egypt which show that bronze was in
use in that country more than two
thousand years before the Christian era.
"A great international exhibition OF
science and industries will be held next
year at Brussels, Belgium, commenc-
ing on the first Saturday in May and
closing November 3.
What is expected TO be the second
largest bagging and cordage factory in
the United States is soon to be located
in Galveston, Tex. 1t will contain fifty
looms, and most of the machinery will
be obtained from this country, although
the spinning and carding machines will
come from England.
Ioncc, that somnar,IrI;sr, ;s n r,om,,
Instances occo.ionod ,y no,r, and IL:
,ross - ,,inJ al a. aa,;s,
ouent thereon. ,some of our actions
often becomino Inv nroctico so nearly
automatic that martial sloon ar stunor
does NIT arrest tbcir unconscious nor.
fo,mance.n
"A long continued series of observa-
tions made both at paris and Munich
Indicate that the sanitary condition of
locality depends ON It's volume NJ
ground water. that il on tho omount
of wafer contained in the rround II
is stated that "the wears in which there
has been n largo quantity of oround-
votor nrescnt have i,vorioblv boor tho
booItbiest yoors whilo ,hnso In wh;oL
there has 6ocn a small quantity have
invariably been the most unhealthy
periods. IN Y Ledger.
According to Professor S. p. Lang
ley, the well-known American astron-
omer, the temperature of the sunlit
surface of the moon has been commonly
over-estimated, and probably does not
exceed fifty degrees centigrade. Mr.
Richard A. Proctor, in his elaborate
work on the moon, says that, during
The lunar day, the surface of the moon
burns, one may almost declare, with a
heat of some five hundred degrees
Fahrenheit. II the infcrcnces OF our
most skillful physicists and the evidence
obtained from our moN powerful means
of experiments can be trusted.
Chemically considered, man is COM
posed of thirteen elements-iive being
gases and eight solids. In a man
weighing 154 pounds, the oxygen, ac-
cording to French authority, weighs 81
pounds, chlorine about 26 ounces, and
iluorine 3f ounces. He is therefore
made mp chiefly of gases, which in
free state would occupy about 1000
cubic feet of space. Carbon and calci-
um represent the bulk of the solids; the
phosphorus, sulphur, potassium, sodi-
um, and iron weighing only from II to
26 ounces each. --Arkdnsav 7raveier
The shipments of iron ore from tho
Lake Superior ports during the season
just closed aggregate 1872, l67 tons, as
compared with 3,4l3,672 tons in 1886.
BY ranges the shipments have been rs
follows: Marquette range, 1,755, 754
tons; Menominee range, l,l32, Gil tons;
Gogebic range, l,09l. 1885 tons; Vermil-
ion range, $50, 467 tons. The Marquette
Mining journal presents a statement of
the shipments by lake from twelve of