The Republican., 1890-11-21
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

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| Me-, has canned 1908 bushels of berries
this season.
! Montana claims to have the largest
and finest jasper quarries in the world,
| recently discovered. e..
The raising of sisal hemp in the Ba-
hamas promises to be one of the chief
industries of these islands.
Utilizing scrap steel rod by welding
t and drawing it into fence wire is one
of the recent successes of electrical
welding.
An electrical gyroscope has been
| devised in Paris and applied to show the
| rotation of the earth and to correct
| ships compasses.
A gigantic dam is being built across
the Missouri. 1t will be 500 feet long
and A high, and the reservoir will cover
an area of 429 square miles.
-Broca, the French anthropologist,
declares that the broad-headed race now
represented by the people of central
France, are the true Gauls or Celts OF
! Caesar.
Five factories make the little cap
sules in which nauseating medicines are
! concealed. The largest of them is in
Detroit where quantities of the little
! gelatine boxes are manufactured.
The rolling mill department of the
United States Rolling Stock Company
at Admission, Ala, has completed piece
| of shafting 25 feet long, ~ inches in
diameter, and weighs 3,G4O pounds. 1t
was to be used in the works at Annis-
| ton.
Ten years ago China had almost
monopoly of the English tea market.
but now India and Ceylon furnish 50 per
cent. of the quantity consumed. The
India and Ceylon teas are said to be
stronger than the Chinese. Coffee is
rapidly being superseded by tea as
beverage in England.
An innovation in the method of hand
ling green fruit at the port of New York
is about to be put into practice. The
new arrangement consists of steam
/ heated wharf In tho past. fruit has
! been landed on the wharf without regard
! to weather and when the temperature
ranged below the freezing point great
damage resulted. The heated wharf
will be Sc by 1S4 feet in Dimensions.
Compressed air power. originally
| introduced for distributing uniform
time to clocks, seems to be giving great
satisfaction in many industries of
| Paris, and new uses for it are constantly
being found. Elevators are now run by
it, at a saving, it is said, of so per cent.
The compressed air is supplied also for
refrigerating purposes, its expansion in
properly constructed cooling-rooms
causing the temperature to fall to
point far below zero.
One of the most interesting pieces
of engineering completed this year is
the cog road to the summit of Pixies
Peak. The total ascent from Manitou,
the initial station is 1000 feet in dis
tance of . miles. The maximum grade
is p per cent and 1S.417 feet or 80 per
cent. of the entire line is on a curva-
thre, the sharpest curves being 16 de-
grecs, so the aphorism as crooked as the
road to Pixies Peak will be truthful as
we'll as applicable. e.-Railway Age.
The keeper of the Tillamook Rock
| (Oregon) lighthouse reports to the light
house board wave which broke at a
| height of 100 feet above the high-water
mark. His calculation is made as fol-
lows: The rock upon which the light
house tower stands rises ninety-six feet
above high water, the focal plane of the
light itself is thirty-eight feet above
the base of the tower, and the crest of
the wave was at least twenty-five feet
above the light The windows of the
tower were broken and the lamp extin-
guished
DIR. Rcgnard has raised the question
in one of the medical journals as to
whether a corpse which sinks to a very
great depth is preserved indefinitely or
otherwise from putrefaction. According
to his researches. which have been pub
lished at some length in the archives of
the Biological Society of Paris, putre-
faction is not found to take place in de-
composable substances submitted to
pressure of 600 toT00 atmospheres; these
figures corresponding to depth of 5000
or :, 900 meters at sea. From these ex-
periments it must be concluded, accord
ing to DR.. Regnard, that there is total
absence of putrefaction in the greater
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