The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-10-31
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

Bay City has the largest wooden
ware factory in the world.
More than one-ffth Of the land Of
the world has no outlet for drainage to
the sea, and in all that area evaporation
is greater than precipitation.
The total imports of bananas at
New York during the year 1889 aggre-
gated 1886, 593 punches, to which ia
maica contributed about one-third, or
1,346, 062, while Colon sent 216,52S.
The bones of some prehistoric giants
have been unearthed near Admission,
Ala. One of the thigh bones was sixty
two inches long, and the skulls averaged
thirty-four inches in circumference.
There is now more beet than cane
sugar consumed. In 1881 the total of
the worlds production of cane sugar
was 2,006,900 tons, and of beet sugar
1,774, 600 tons. In 1890 the total of cane
was 2.246, 900, and Of beet 8, $50, 600 tons.
When Sir John Herschel was de-
Tending the character of astronomical
science in view of an error of nearly
100000 miles in estimating the suns
distance, the correction was shown to
apply to an error of observation so small
as to be equivalent to the apparent
breadth of human hair at distance Of
1875 feet
Prof. Ponfck, surgeon of Breslau,
Germany, has succeeded in removing in
rabbits portions of the liver amounting
to one-half, without killing them, and
has subsequently found that the dis
sected organ grew again to more than
its original size, proving that the liver
has the astonishing power of repairing
lost tissue,
Prof. William D. Parks, Supervis-
ing Engineer of the Edison Electric
Light Company of Philadelphia, an
electrical expert, says he is willing to
stake his reputation as an electrical en-
gineer on his ability to construct an
electric motor that could take train of
cars from Philadelphia to New York in
thirty-six minutes.
-Nine-tenths of the raisins sold in
this country are made in California, and
yet California raisinmakers ship all their
best goods to New York and have them
boxed and marked as if they came from
Spain. They claim that the public
looks with more favor on imported
raisins, and for this reason they are OBJ
liged to go to all this trouble.
kerosene vapor is a palpable irritant
of the throat and air passages, and may
we'll have had something to do with the
alleged fact that in a recent epidemic of
diphtheria, in Hartford, Conn.,, the only
fatal cases occurred in families who
used kerosene lamps, while the families
who used gas or candles for light in
sick-rooms escaped fatal termination.
The Sanitary Era.
The idea generally current that
death, following on disease, most fire.
quently occurs during the early hours
of morning has been proved by recent
investigation to be erroneous. DR..
Burns, of the Charity Hospital, New
York, has made observations in some
$1,000 cases, extending over twelve
years, with the result of finding that no
particular hour or period of the day is
specially fatal
Andrew Carnegie will have history
Of the several industrial establishments
in America with which he has been
connected prepared and handsomely
printed, to present to the foreign visit
ors who will come to Pittsburgh next
month to attend the international meet
ing of mechanics and metallurgical en-
gineers. The book will be handsomely
bound and profusely illustrated. The
history of the works and the various
processes Of steelmaking will be care
fully explained
The San Francisco Chronicle esti-
mates that the fruit shipments from
California to the East this year will
reach 10000 carloads, or 2OO,OO0,0 900
pounds. 1t says: cat an average price
of five cents pound-which may be
considered low, as the above embraces
vast quantity of dried fruit, which sells
at from eight to twenty cents pound
our surplus for export will bring the
State at least SlO,OOO,OOO. This is
pretty good showing for section in
which apples and pears sold freely at
S1.5O to SO pound forty years ago. and
which at that time was deemed by most
persons unfit for any other purpose than
to dig gold and raise cattle for their
hides and tallow."
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