The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1890-04-03
/clENcE AND INDUSTRY.


Brick II generally regarded - the
best building material. And its orna-
mental capacity Il fully equal to its du-
liability.
A Russian physician announces that
he has discovered cure for diphtheria.
He says the disease Is easily cured by
inoculating erysipelas.
-Chcmical analysis r. said to establish
II Is fact shat four and one-half pounds
Of potatoes are approximately equiva-
lent to one poundof rice.
A French scientist, who has been
studying the hands Of manual laborers,
finds that very marked physical peculi-
arities are engendered BY the pursuit Of
different occupations.
The application Of hydraulic power
to the manufacture Of steel seamless
boats is one of the latest things In En-
grand. These boats are thought to be
in every particular superior to those
made of wood, and can be made st about
the same cost.
Tho pack OF California canned
peaches in 1888 consisted Of 1888, 476
cases, twenty-four cans to the case.
This was about onethird the total pack
Of table fruits. In twelve years the
total annual fruit pack has grown from
27O,O cases to 100. 900 cases.
The international display of scien-
tific progress to be made this year in
clude the Electrical and Industrial Elk
hibition ut Edinburgh and the Exhibi-
ton Of Botany and Microscopy ut Ant
werp. At the latter will be celebrated
the ter"entenary Of the compound ioicro-
scope.
1T is confidently predicted that the
present high price Of maple sugar viii;
never be lower, owing to the rapid de.
crease in the area Of maple orchards.
The variety made from hickory sap and
brown sugar will prolong the supply.
however, for those who are not we'll &C.
Quainted with the genuine article.
The belief that smoke from soft coal
may have beneficial sanitary effects. il
gaining ground. Il is claimed that the
sulphur in the coal when burned Lecomes
. sulphurous acid, then well known dis
infectant Further, that creosote ard its
allied products are thrown of with the
fumes Of bituminous coal. and that IA
atmosphere charged with carbolic acsa
must be freer from germs Of the disease
than an apparently purer one.
Another new dber-producing plant,
which is looked upon by its discoverer as
to become . rival OF those now in use,
has been discovered, but we have not
yet heard of any of the large cotton
fields being abandoned. These new
6bers are mostly Of coarser grain, and
not adapted to the production of the
finer grades Of goods. They are valu-
able. however. IS they open up new
fields for industry and enterprise, and
their introduction into the textile in
dustry will no doubt result benedcially
to the general public, provided they
prove to be what il claimed for them.
AN examination OF the textiles from
the German peat-finds Of the northern
bronze period has enabled Herr Buschan
to distinguish tho fbers Of the stuff, and
to show that ct . period of great remote
ness wool and dax, but not hemp, were
made into webs. The folk Of the lake
dwellings could manufacture fax into
coarse lace nets, mats and even en-
broidery. Herr Buschan holds 1t proved
by the instruments discovered that they
could knit and weave to the Neolithic
period, when mighty mammoths were
roaming over Europe and when En-.
gland harbored the musk OK and grizzly
Rear.