Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-01-14
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.
Good coal miners are scarce.

Toronto has an eight hour league.
New York has a Hebrew Painters
Union.
In Victoria, Australia, bricklayers
and masons work but seven and a hall
hours per day.
St Paul plumbers want law to
ing in the business
"A shoe firm in Macon, Ga, has been
conducting business at the one stand for
sixty years.
The largest factory in the world de-
voted exclusively to rubber shoemakinp
has been dedicated in Woonsocket, R. l..
The nest of the hornet is the first
article OF paper manufacture that ever
saw the light of day. The hornet takes
the wood of a tree, grinds it assiduously
into pulp, and forms sheets of paper, out
OF which he constructs his nest Al
though, as you can see, the paper is
gray in its present condition, it is un-
doubtedly paper, and of the finest kind
Mr.. Berthelot has proved by expert
ments that there is no foundation for
the belief that the earth absorbs and re-
tains more carbonic oxide than other
gases, an hypothesis offered to explain
several cases of asphyxiation which
have occurred when miners went into a
level shortly after an explosion. En-
cheering and Mining Journal.
Nickel is modern metal It was
not in use nor known of till 1715. 1t has
now largely taken the place of silver in
plated ware, and as alloy with steel it is
superior to any other metal, for it is not
only non-corrodible itself, but it trans
fers the. same quality to steel; even
whom combined as low as five per cent
1t prevents oxidation Citi-
zen.
The census reports 400, 900 acres I'M
der vine culture, with 800, 900 acres bear
ing. The value of vineyards and wine
cellars is estimated at S155. 600, 900. Cal
: ifornia has $50, 600 acres. In New York
there is vast area of vineyards about
Lake Keuka and Canandaigua Lake;
much wine is produced. but most of the
grapes are sold for food. California puts
seven-eighths of her grapes into wine.
Nearly 40, 600, 900 gallons of wine will be
made this year in the United States.
I'm each respiration an adult inhales
one pint of air. A healthy man respires
sixteen or twenty times minute, or
90, a day; child twenty-five or
thirty-fve times a minute While stand
ing the adult respiration is twenty-five
times minute; while lying down thir-
teen. The superficial surface of the
lungs, i. g., of their alveolar space, is
200 square yards. The amount of air
respired every twenty-four hours is
about ten thousand quarts.-Boston
Herald.
An English scien fist says: THE
student of nature is generally if not
universally, supposed to be the very in
carnation of peace, and a well-developed
organ of combativeness is considered
decidedly out of place in happy Arcadia.
Nevertheless, the earth is one vast
battle-ground where all things living
struggle for the survival of the fttest'
that great and memorable law, from
the influence of which even the proud
race of man is not exempt. Among the
beasts of the field the law of force pre-
walls. The finest specimens of each
class survive, and the weaker go to the
wall, or, perchance, into the stomachs
of their stronger brethren"
DIR. Nansen is rapidly preparing for
his expedition to the North Pole He
will start from Norway in February
next in the ship of ITO tons burden
that has been specially built for him.
The vessel is SO constructed that she
can not be crushed by the ice, but if
nipped the foes will simply force her
out of the water on top of the ice DR..
Nansen is provisioning his vessel for
five years, and dozen men will go with
him to share his good luck or tragic
death. He thinks it will take about
three years to drift from the islands of
New Siberia across the North Pole and
down the other side to the southern end
OF Greenland. The expedition, which
Is carried out by the aid of King Oscars
government and the munifcence of Mr..
Dickson, will cost over 500, o00
lit Is said that scientist SON ewnere,
after two years close practice, has got
50 that he can exchange ideas with his
dog. And now if he will buckle down
for few years more and get on speak
ing terms with an old hen, so that the
news may be carried to the hen-roost
whenever eggs are worth fifty cents
dozen. he will be very apt to get monu-
ment with gilt letters on it-Ram's
Horn.
First lady-''Come, let us go and
see the play tonight. It's society
drama, and everybody says it's just
lovely" Second ditto: 'sWhy not 90
down TO Tating & Biasfeld's opening of
Partisan costumes? Wen see just as
much and more. and then, you know,
We don't have our attention distracted
by the conversation of actors, which So
distracts from the effectiveness of the
drama First lady: 80, yes; that'll be
ever 50 much nicer than the theater.
Strange didn't think of it myself. -
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