The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-12-13
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.


Two hundred and four Am cflcan
carpet mills, running II, 900 looms, en-.
| ploying 43, 900 hands, made, in tho year
1880, 76S00, 900 yards OF carpet
-Pcrique tobacco, which, 1t In said,
grows to perfection only in st. James
parish, Louisiana, will be but scant
crop this year, owing to the late floods.
Cincinnati is wire center, and
claims to make among other things
go, 600 bird cages e5, 900 rat traps, 100, 900
fly traps and 800, 900 sieves annually. 1t
is n big industry.
"A person born in hot weather stands
the heat great deal better than one
born in the cold months of winter; of
course the rule works vice versa. Those
born in the spring are usually of u moro
robust constitution than II born at any
other time of the year.
"A cold wave, as defined by Prof. T.
RUSSELL is fall of temperature in
twenty-four hours of 20 deg. over an
area of $4,000 square miles, the tempera-
ture in some parts of this area d. scend-
ing to 80 deg. Between 1880 and 1890
no less than 691 cold waves were re-
corded in the United States.
1t has been suggested that good
way to rid the town of moths would be
to set up powerful electric light on
the outskirts. The moths's instructive
fondness for light, and especially the
electric light, would thus keep them
where they could futter their wings
without fear of disturbing men and wo-
men that don't like them.
Twelve years ago India could only
boast of So mills, employing 1,452, ,794
spindles. Now Bombay alone has 70
mills, with 1895, 66O spindles, and the
total for all India is 1877 mills, with a
working capacity of 1924, 1DG spindles.
Japan will, before long, also be able to
supply large proportion of the yarns
she consumes, and the cotton-spinning
industry has secured strong footing in
Gilman Y. Star.
AT the recent meeting of the French
Association, M. Cobes, of Buenos Ayres,
read paper in which he contended
that all living animals have surface of
absorption and respiration; and that
oxygen introduced by hypodermic in
lection is absorbed by the capillaries in
the same way as the oxygen which is
inspired by the lungs. The artificial,
or hypodermic respiration thus set up
is suggested as likely to be useful where
the proper action of the pulmonary APP
paratus is defective. - English Me-
chanic.
The New York Engineering News
says that the nickel appropriation of
$1,000, 900 ordered by the late Congress
for armor plate 'has resulted in the
discovery that there are only about a
dozen nickel mines in the world, and
only three are on this continent The
output of these mines is doubtful, and
one source may not be sufficient Other
nations may also see the advantages of
the new alloy, and it is said that
Krupp's representative is already seek
ing to gain possession of the Canadian
mine The other two American mines
are in Nevada and in Lancaster County,
Pennsylvania"
Prof Wickens, of Vienna, has re-
Gently published some interesting OBJ
servations upon the transmission of
color in horses. English thorough breds,
both sire and dam being of the same
color, transmit their color to the Off
spring in $50 cases out of 1000. When
the parents are different in color, that
of the mare generally results. Bay is
the more frequent color, black the
scarcest, and there are only about 1870
black mares per 1000. Two of the same
colored Arab horses will give their hue
to their offspring in s37 instances out of
1,O00 The Arab is usually white, and
729 times out of 1000, if the mare is
white and the stallion is not, the foal
will be.
On stone at w insford Hill, West
Somerset, England, on the estate of Sir
Thomas Acland, an inscription has been
found reading "Carataci Nepus." Tho
first word is the name Caractacus found
in Tacitus, which recent editors read
Caratacus. Prof. John Rhys writes to
the Academy to say that the name is
identical with the Welsh Caratauc, later
Caradog, and with the Irish Carthach,
now Carthy. The nepus he explains as
a Latin translation of Irish o. before
names, and therefore meaning grandson
or descendant Carataci Nepus would
be equivalent to Ua Carthaigh, or, as
we would now write, O'Carthy. He does
not claim that the stone represents the
grave of the Caratacus mentioned by the
Roman historian.