Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1890-06-14
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

Brick Is generally regarded as the
best building material. And Its orna.
mental capacity is fully equal to IL du.
rabiiity.
"A Russian physician announces that
be has discovered a cure for diphthcria
lie says the disease Is easily cured by
!. .inoculating erysipelas.
Chemical analysis is said TO establish
II as a fact that four and one-half pounds
of potatoes are approximately equiya-
lent 70 one poundof rice.
"A French scientist, who has been
studying the hands OF manual laborors,
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-
gland. These boats are thought To be
in every particular superior TO those
made OF wood, and can be made at about
the same cost.
The pack OF California canned
peaches in 1883 consisted OF 36s, 47G
cases, twenty-four cans To the ease.
This was about oncthlrd the total pack
OF table fruits. In twelve years the
total annual fruit pack has grown from
27o,oO cases 10 10000 cases.
The international display Of scien-
ttic progress TO he made this year in
clude the Electrical and Industrial Ex-
hibition at Edinburgh and the Exhibi-
tion of botany and Microscopy at Ant.
weep. At the latter will be celebrated
the tercentenary of the compound micro
scope.
1T is confidently predicted that the
F present high price OF maple sugar will
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 well ac.
quaintod with the genuine article.
The belief that smoke from soft coal
may have beneficial sanitary effects, Is
gaining ground. 1t is claimed that tho
sulphur in the coal whec burned becomes
suiphurous acid. then a well known dis
infectant- Further, that creosote and IL,
allied products are thrown of with IN,
fumes OF bituminous coal. and that M
atmosphere charged with carbolic acit
must be freer from germs of the diseas,
than an apparently purer one.
Another new fiber-producing plant
which is looked upon by its discovcrer a,
to become a rival of those now in use
has been discovered. but we have no
yet heard of any of the large cottoI
fields being abandoned. These new
iibcrs are mostly OF a coarser grain. anC
not adapted to the production OF th'
finer grades Of goods. They are valu
able, however, as they open up nca
fields for industry and enterprise, an,
their introduction into the textile in
dustry will no doubt result beneficial,
to the general public. provided the,
prove to be what is claimed for them.
AN examination of the textiles iron
the German peat-iinds of the northern
bronze period has enabled Herr Ruschai
to distinguish the fibers of the staff, an,
70 show that at period of great remote
ness wool and flax, but net hemp, wer
made into webs. The folk of the lak,
dwellings could manufacture flax int
coarse lace nets, mats and even em
broidery. Herr Buschan holds 1t prove,
by the instruments discovered that the
,ould knit and weave TO the Noolithi
period, when mighty mammoths Wer
roaming over Europe and when En-
gland harbored the musk OK and grizzl
bear