Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-01-11
SCIENCE kNp INDUSTRY.
Valuable Information on Variety of
Subjects.


A natural gas field discovered near We'll
land, Ont, is being developed by syndi-
cate OF capitalists.
In 1880 the value of American ma
chinery imported into Mexico was S462,.
3S4. In 1887 the value of the same class
of imports had increased to over 81, 100000.
A New York paper says Thomas A.
Edison has made contract with the Mex
! lean Government to furnish the Postofiices
of the republic with monographs to be
used for the Transmission of messages. In
| place of writing a letter, Mexican here
after can say what he wants to say, and
the wax impression Of his tone will be
forwarded to the Postofice nearest to the
residence of the person for whom the
message is intended The latter will be
notified on It's arrival, and the message
will be ground out to him by the local
photograph. As the vast majority of the
Mexican population cannot read or write,
it is believed that the phonograph will be
extensively used in correspondence.
1t is stated that steel rail manufacturers
Of the United States have already booked
orders for 10000 tons Of steel rails to be
delivered in 1890.
off in American importations of English
pig iron. In October the total amount
was 6,607 tons, as compared with LIS
tons in the corresponding month last year,
and %. 901 in October, 1887.
England's coal resources are estimated
to be sufficient to last, at the present rate
of consumption, over 800 years.
Thirteen mills in this country are turn
ing ont $50 tons of wood pulp daily. 1t
requires machinery of 1900 horse power
to run these mills. When all the wood
pulp mills now building are completed
1000 cords of wood will be turned into
paper daily. A cord of wood makes 1850
pounds Of ground pulp, or 1000 pounds Of
sulphite fiber, or 500 pounds of soda pulp;
so that the present daily consumption of
wood is about 500 cords. Among the mills
now building or proposed at least half
dozen will employ the sulphite process
Ground pulp is worth from so to S2S per
ton; domestic sulphite fiber sells at S67 80
to $50 per ton, and the best imported al
from S67 so to S10O. The Germans have
a superior sulphite process of their own,
and produce the best fiber known.
Some of the Lynn shoe manufacturers,
whose establishments were burnt out by
the recent fire, are said to be looking
Westward for locations wherein to rebuild
their factories. They had better look over
the ground carefully before concluding to
rebuild in Lynn. There are many very
desirable locations in the great and rap
idly developing West, and in due time
the vast population of the Mississippi Val
ley will purchase their supplies from facto-
ries within their own territory.
The human stomach, according to NJ.
Sappey, the eminent Psychologist, contains
100000 glands by which the gastric
Juice is secreted, and a few others which
secrete only mucous.
The number Of species of animals whose
tracks have been found in the Trias of
New England and New Jersey by Dr. Ed
ward Hitchcock and Professor c. H. Hitch
cock is now l55, including one marsupial,
thirty-fve so-called birds, although they
are, doubtless, more reptilian than avian
in their character; twenty-eight dinosaurs,
twenty-seven reptiles and amphibia, six
teen batrachians, six chelonians, besides
arthropoda and mollusca. The two great
collections are at Amherst College and Mt
Holyoke Seminary.
A planter in South Carolina has sue
ceeded in propagating the male cotton
plant by itself, until now he can raise cot
ton seed without the lint or cotton. The
gain appears TO be in the increased yield
of seed.
The largest bell in the world is the great
bell of Moscow, at the foot of the Krem-
lin. Its circumference at the bottom is
nearly sixty-eight feet, and its hight is
twenty-one feet. Its weight has been COM
puted to be 44S,772 pounds.
Experiments are now being made in
Italy upon this years vintage in the cleo
trifcation of wine. Fifty different sorts
of wine have already been experimental
upon. and the results have been very salts
factory The wine is clarified, acquires
bouquet and is said to stand equally
well transport By land or long journeys by
sea.
Count Chardonet's invention of artificial
silk, made from cellulose, received a gold
medal at the Paris exposition. The ma
terlal, while indistinguishable from real
silk, and produced at quarter of the cost,
is dangerously infammable.
According to a recent publication of
the Statistical Bureau at Berlin four
ttths OF the steam machinery IN the
world has been constructed within the last
twenty-five years France has 1850
boilers, 1000 locomotives and 1,700 ship
boilers Austro-Hungary, $1,000 boilers
and 2,400 locomotives. In the United
States the steam machinery, exclusive of
locomotives, has 100000 horse power; in
England, 100000 in Germany, 4,500,-
600; in France, 100000; in Austro-HRn-
gary, 100000. There are some 105,-
eco locomotives, with 100000 horse
power in the world All the steam nsa-
chinery in the world possesses 46,000,000
horsepower. The one-horse power of
machine operated by them is equivalent
to the strength Of three ordinary horses,
and the strength Of an ordinary horse is
equivalent to the combined strength of
seven men. From all this the statistical
bureau at Berlin draws the conclusion that
the steam machinery of the world does
the work Of 1,e00,000,0 600 nisz or twice
the working population of the globe.
There is no scientific basis for the pop
ular belief that fish is specially valuable
as brain food. Beef and mutton are 200
| 800 per cent. richer in phosphate matter
than the flesh of fishes.
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