The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1890-09-06
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

More shoes are manufactured at
H%averhill, Mass, than in any other
city of the United States.
Apples ten and twelve inches in cir
cumference are raised in southern Flor
Ida. They are said to be of fine flavor
and juicy.
As the result of weighing two hum
dred and three newly born children, to
determine the weight of brain, the male
infants brain weighed 11.9 ounces and
the female 11.6 unces, the weight OF
the brain being to the body as II to
weight or t~hereabout.
"A feature Of the international olec-
trical exhibition in Frankfort, Germany,
will be the transmission of electric
power. A firm in Lauffen, on the Noe
kar will furnish currents of 5OO-horse
power over copper wires from n station
l4O miles from the eXhibitio n.
The effects OF steam in tho dostruc-
ton OF bacteria do not depend, accord
ing to the researches of Won Esmarch,
30 much upon the temperature as upon
the degree of saturation of the steam.
II there is air with it, the power OF de-
stroying organic germs is very much
diminished.
The nrophor is a new invention
from Germany of great Importance in
textile factories, and Is being intro
duced into tho factories of England as
we'll as Germany. 1t is an apparatus to
diffuse moisture necessary for spinning
without injury to health or machinery.
The enormous development Of our
iron industry is shown by the statistics
Of the Iron Age, in which tho produc-
ton of iron for the first six months Of
1890 is placed at 4.G1O, 900 tons, which is
the largest amount Of iron ever made in
any country in the world in that time
Boston Journal.
"A process for marbleizing silk plush
without pressing or embossing it has
been discovered. BY this process the
light and dark effects are reversed when
looked at from opposite points. The
finish is nicely preserved and does not
give the appearance Of having been wet
as shown in many goods of this charac-
ter.
-Glass-blowing is an art nearly 1000
years old, and perhaps much older. Yet
there never has been any means discov-
cred Of dispensing with the human
lungs as the instruments of the blowing.
An English company is experimenting
with a mold and mechanical bellows.
which does satisfactory work at bottle
blowing and other coarse work.
The production Of steel rails in this
country during the first six months of
this year is given by a reliable authority
as approximating very closely to $780,
900 tons. This is said by the same au-
thority to be 225, 900 tons or more in OK
cess of the production for the same
period last year. This indicates a very
healthy condition Of the streel-rail trade
for the year SO far, and the Indications
are that this activity will be continued.
American Manufacturer.
Ten years ago there were only l42
cotton mills in the South, OF $40, 900 spin
dies, consuming 1S1, 900 bales Of cotton.
In 1889 there were 348 cotton mills, in
highly prosperous condition, using
2,O00,0 600 spindles and consuming 500, 600
bales of cotton a year. In this industry
the South is just beginning to move; ten
years ago they manufactured one-for-
tieth of the cotton crop of the South,
and nov they manufacture one-twelfth.
In inc manufacture OF paper tnlS
country has been making tremendous
strides during tho last few years. The
industry has been brought to such a
high state of development, and the pro-
duction reduced 8 o much in cost by i'm
proved machinery and the successful
use of wood pulp under a special process,
that a large export trade has been es-
t%ablished, particularly with England.
A market has also been found in Austria
liza and elsewhere.
BY submitting different seeds to tho
action of the electric current their de-
v%elopement is rendered more rapid.
Experiments made in Russia show tiset
when the electrical treatment Is applied
to vegetables there is a larger crop and
the vegetable grows to a larger size.
Barley ripened ten days quicker; pota-
toes we're better and not so prone to
disease, and vines that have been
treated have been cured OF the diseases
which have-attacked them. 1t is also
suggested as q remedy for the evil OF
the potato bug.