The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-09-11
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

-ClinSon. In, claims % have the.
largest saw.mill IN the world.
Some 800 photographs Of liehtning
aasbes arc included in the collections Of
the Royal Meteorological Society.
Professor Putnam, in his report to
tho Peabody Museum for the current
year, says man has existed for 10000
years in this country.
Tho art of making matches has been
80 perfected that 10, OK, 600 Of the tiny
sticks can be cut into shape, all ready
for dipping, by one machine in single
day.
Tho mineral called turfa, or brazoli-
M, recently discovered in Bahia, fur
nishes an oil akin to petroleum, . paraf-
hne suitable for the manufacture of can.
dies, and . good lubricating oil.
"A new substitute for sulphate of
quinine has been found by NJ. valude
In the bark of the panbotana, = legumin-
Gus tree OF Mexico. Either the alcoholic
tincture or preparation obtained by
maceration has remarkable effect in
fever cases. g...-
/. "A report comes from the West Of tho
discovery Of process by which iron ore
can be 30 softened by the concentrated
rays of an arc light IS to be worked with
comparatively small amount of labor.
II this discovery is confirmed, it may
lead to considerable modification of tho
present modes Of treating ores.
The iron industry is rapidly getting
into . more satisfactory condition, and,
Notwithstanding the fact that the pro-
ductton Of both crude and finished iron
Is far In excess of any previous record,
yet consumption has 50 far kept pac~
with it that the market il nowhere bur-
dened with any large accumulation.
Prices have eased of somewhat within
the past six months, but are gradually
becoming firmer, and Is the supply Is
absorbed without difficulty, the outlook
IS deemed to be most favorable.-Boston
Advertiser.
I'm five years of observation at Lin
coin. New Zealand, Mr.. George Gray
has found that tho amount of impurity
washed down from the air by the rain
depends more on the number of showers
than on the total rainfall. An acre OF
land at Lincoln receives annually lin
$50 inches Of rainy about 179 pounds of
dissolved matter, including COS pounds
of chlorine. fifteen pounds of sulphuric
anhydride, and q little more than two
pounds of nitrogen. Nearness to the
sea explains the high proportion Of
chlorine.-Arkansaw Traveller.
M. de la Bastie, French chemist,
has, during the past few years, con-
Quoted series Of experiments which
are said to have resulted in a method OF
rendering glass sufficiently tough for
use in molding many articles hitherto
made of iron. On the strength Of this
discovery, the hope is INDUCED that the
huge sub-Atlantic pneumatic tube for
the connection OF the Old with the New
World, the suggestion of which was re-
ceived with Indifference and incred lily
some time ago, may eventually turn out
to be not so chimerical as at first. glance
it was judged 20 be.
The death of DR.. Christian Henry
F. Peters, the celebrated astronomer of
Lttchfield Observatory, Hamilton COL
lego, ends one of the most useful scien-
tific careers of our day. DR.. Peters
astronomical work was varied and ex-
tensive, including observations on
asteroids, comets, solar spots, and the
mapping of the stellar heavens. He
discovered more asteroids than any
other astronomer, the total to his credit,
we believe, being forty-seven. He re.
corded $4,000 sun spots and catalogued
$4,000 zodiacal stars. His star charts
were among the most elaborate ever
published, and contained all the known
stars down to the fourteenth magnitude
IS far as thirty degrees on each side OF
the equator, throughout the whole
tWentv-fOur hours -ROchestAr Herald