The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-11-08
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

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--Thore is more shipping now in the
nprt at Charleston than at any time fol
tho last five years.
Eighteen and one-half tons of celery
were shipped from Kalamazoo in one
day recently.
1t is said there are only two red
slate quarries in the United States, one
In Vermont and tho other in Virginia.
The Chinese Cotton Cloth Company
Of Shanghai is at last about to com.
mence operations, although much ham.
pered by financial difficulties.
-Nearsightedness is overrunning the
French people as much as the Germans.
Among the senior boys in the different
French colleges more than forty-six per
cent are nearsighted.
The largest fruit farm in West vir-
ginia is tho Becker farm, near Harper's
Ferry. 1t contains 5000 apricot trees,
$4,000 peach trees, 5000 plum trees,
5000 miscellaneous fruit trees and 35,-
900 grape vines.
Recent experiments on the physio.
logical effects of the electric current
lead to the belief that q continuous cur
rent causes death by direct action on
the substance of the heart, and death
by an intermittent current is due to the
alteration of the nerves and the inhibi
tory mechanism of the heart.
"A German chemist has discoveries
that when a bottle partly filled with h
solution of ozone in water is shaken, a
soft phosphorescent glow spreads over
fhn trfo pf N
disappears A second shaking gives a
fainter light, but the appearance can
not be obtained again until after an
interval of some days.
"A French agricultural experiment
station reports that out of SIS plants the
goat eats 449 and refuses 1875; the sheep
out of SIS plants eat 3S7 and refuse 141;
the COW out Of 494 plants eats 276 and re-
fuses 21S; the horse out of 474 plants
eats 262 and refuses 212; while the pig
out of 243 plants eats 70 and refuses III.
The production of silk throughout
the world last year is estimated at H.
FOG tons, as against II, 54s tons in 1888,
11,SSS tons in 1887, 1884 tons in 1886,
and 9,0O2 tons in 1885, The average of
the four years from 1885 to 1883 was
10,74s tons. The 1889 crop was rather
above it, although scarcely any silk was
produced in Syria and other parts of the
Levant-N. Y. Evening Post.
Apparently the tables are turning
California prunes have become so popu-
lar in this country that it is said the
French are beginning to put up their
prunes in the California style, so that
they will pass for California prunes.
Some of these days, perhaps, dishonest
dealers will try to sell French wines
by putting on them California labels.
Westward the star of Empire takes it's
way"
The value of the worlds production
of coffee, at 100000 cwt., would be
about S267, 900, 900 in the Wholesale
market. The worlds consumption of
coffee is placed at $500 tons, the
United States and Canada alone using
265 900 TONS Two-thirds of the coffee
we drink comes from Brazil, which pro-
duces considerably more than one-half
of the worlds supply. City
Commercial.
Attention has been called in various
quarters (the United States, England, |
DelBlulu, ETdHCe anu terInunyJ TO tle |
cold weather prevailing of |
late years, since 1885, in Central and |
Western Europe; the yearly average be-
ing constantly under the normal. 1t |
now appears from an Algerian record, |
that these years have been warmer than |
usual in Algeria. 1t has also shown |
that there has been no change in the |
frequency Of north and south winds,
while in Europe the northeast winds
have been increasing in frequency.
"A recent dispatch from Chattanooga
contains the unequivocal announcement
u the casting of twenty-five tons of
superior, soft, low-carbon steel, OBJ
tanned from Southern iron by the basic
process. The dispatch describes this as
'the most important event in the indus
rial development of tho South" and if
jhe account is true it is an important
'vent surely. New England's relations
With the coal and iron fields of the
south are such that the news of this
experiment will be received
Titn n good deal of interest in this re.
zion. Boston journal.