Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-09-13
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

More shoes are manufactured al
Haverhill, Mass, than in any other
| sity of the United States.
Apples ten and twelve inches in cir
| cumference are raised in southern Flor
Ida. They are said to be OF fine flavor
and juicy.
AS the result of weighing two hun
dred and three newly born children, to
determine the weight of brain, the male
infants brain weighed 11.9 ounces and
tho female 11.6 ounces, the weight OF
the brain being to the body as one to
weight or thereabout.
"A feature of the International elec-
trical exhibition in Frankfort, Germany,
will be the transmission of electric
power. A firm in Lauffen, on the Noe.
kar will furnish currents of 500-horse
power over copper wires from station
140 miles from the exhibition.
The effects of steam in the destruc,
tion of bacteria do not depend, accord,
ing to the researches Of Won Esmarch,
80 much upon the temperature as upon
the degree of saturation of the steam.
F, If there is air with it, the power of de.
stroying organic germs is very much
diminished.
The @rophor is new invention
from Germany Of great Importance in
textile factories, and is being intro
duced into the factories of England as
we'll as Germany. 1t is an apparatus to
diffuse moisture necessary for spinning
/ without injury to health or machinery.
The enormous development of our
Iron industry is shown by the statistics
of the Iron Age, in which the produc-
/ tion of iron for the first six months OF
1890 is placed at 1910, 900 tons, which is
the largest amount of iron ever made in
any country in the world in that time
Boston Journal.
"A process for marbleizing silk plush
without pressing or embossing it has
been discovered. By this process the
light and dark effects are reversed when
looked at from opposite points. The
finish is nicely preserved and does not
give the appearance OF having been wet
as shown in many goods of this charac-
ter
Glass blowing is an art nearly 1000
years old, and perhaps much older. Yet
there never has been any means discov.
cred of dispensing with the human
lungs as the instruments of the blowing.
An English company is experimenting
with mold and mechanical bellows,
which does satisfactory work at bottle.
blowing and other coarse work.
The production of steel rails in this
country during the first six months of
10 ri,,ay hyyo ,olin hi bpy- itu
as approximating very closely to S00,'
300 tons. This is said by the same au-
thority to be 225, 900 tons or more in ex-
cess of the production for the same
period last year. This indicates a very
healthy condition of the streel-rail trade
for the year so far, and the indications
are that this activity will be continued.
american Manufacturer.
Ten years ago there were only 14a
cotton mills in the South, of 542, 600 spin
dies, consuming 1s1 ZOO bales OF cotton.
In 1889 there were 346 cotton mills, in
highly prosperous condition, using
100000 spindles and consuming 500, 600
bales of cotton year. In this, industry
the South is jusa beginning to move; ten
years ago they manufac ctured onefor
CleJn pl ble COC1CIf crop VI LuC OOuJDp
and now they manufacture one-5twelfth.
I'm the manufacture of paper this
country has been making tremendous
strides during the last few years. The
industry has been brought to such a
high state of devsIopement, and tire pro-
iuctiom reduced So much in cost by i'm.
proved machinery and the successful
ase of Uood pulp under special process,
that a. large export trade has bern es.
tablished, particularly with England.
NmarEnt has also been found in A.nstra.
La and elseWhers.
BY submitting different seeds 10 the
action of the elsstric current their de-
velopeaent is 1endened more rapid.
Experiments made in Russia show that
wien the electrical treatment is applied
to- vegetables there is a. larger crop and
tae vegetable grows TO larger size.
Barley ripened 5sn days quicker; pota-
toss were betteo and not so prone to
dhsease, and vines that have been
trsabea have been cured of the diseases
which have attacked them. 1t is also
suggested as remedy for the evil OF
tbs potato bug.