The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1890-08-16
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

-Germany manufactures over e., 000,-
900 worth of children's toys every year.
About 1900 species of wild bees are
known, of wasps, l, 100, Of which 40 and
10 respectively live in Britain.
The largest fruit farm In West Yir-
ginia is the Becker farm, near Harper's
Ferry. 1t contains 8, 200 apricot trees,
1000 peach trees, 5000 plum trees.
5000 miscellaneous fruit trees and 49,
600 grape vines.
American inventive activity is on
the increas", as is shown by the fact
that during the past year 3, 7s5 more pat
ents were taken out than in the pre-
ceding year. The number stood 90, 800
for 1889.
Dallas, Oregon, claims to handle
more wool direct from the producer than
any other city in the United States.
Large wagonloads come to town every
day, and s, 200, 600 pounds will be handled
this season.
On November |, 1887, the aggregate
annual capacity OF the completed iron
furnaces in tho entire country was TO-
900, 993 net tons, and by November 1,
1889, these figures had grown to Is, 1884,
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tons in two years.
Quill t~oothpicks come from France.
Tho largest factory in the world is near
Paris. where there Is an annual product
of 20, 600, 900 quilts. The factory was
started to make quill pens, but when
these went out of general use, IL was
converted into a %toothpick mill.
Pulp manufacturers are deeply in
terested In an electrical method OF re-
ducing the wood in the manufacture Of
pulp. BY this process it is claimed that
the fiber Is manufactured so cheaply
that the entire pulp business will be
revolutioniZed, and the digesters now in
use be driven out. Electrical Review.
The influence OF the electric arc on
vegetation is said to rave been striking
ly shown in Berlin in the spring OF this
year. On some large lime trees, the
branches under the electric light dis
played new leaves Of considerable size
while the buds on the opposite branches
where the light does not strike were
only just beginning to develop.-Arkan-
saw Traveller.
-Co-operation has not been successful
in Berlin. Thirty-five cooperative So
cieties have been organized there for
manufacturing purposes since 1868.
Thirty OF them wound up their affairs
after an average existence of six years
each. Five still exist. The various
reasons for disseminating business were
lack OF funds, differences of opinion
among members, and dwindling away
of membership.
Mr. hHarnntu 1nu met nnnIn nm
microscopic researches upon the micro
scopic organisms that inhabit cheese.
From an examination of Emmenthal, a
soft variety of Gruyere cheese, he has
obtained the following results: In each
gramme Of the cheese, when fresh, from
30, 600 to 40, 900 microbes are found.
This number increases with time. Thus,
acheese II days old contains 800, 600 bac-
terra per gramme. The population OF
a soft cheese % days old and much
denser thar the preceding is 1,2O0, 900,
n that of a cheese ~ days old is
1000, 900 microbes per grammo. - La
Nature.
1t is we'll known that moths and
butterflies give of odors either from the
wings or tho hinder end OF the body.
Certain moths, as the parent of the
common rod and black bear" cater
pillar, and of the salt marsh cater
pillar, have a retractile organ which,
when thrust out, throws out a strong
odOr, somewhat like laudanum. Tho
other evening we caught a white female
miller (SpttOsOma UtTgtntcd), which, after
rough handling, threw Off a very pecu-
liar strong odOr, somewhat reminding us
OF %laudanum. and which remained on
the fingers for several hours. The moth
did not dart out the ~repugnatorial APP
pendages found in the other arctians.