The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-02-20
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.


The State mine inspector of Indiana
reports that there are seventy-sevenc coal
mines in the State, with n capital of
s2,OS1 200. The output last year was
1916, 900 tons.
The total area lnder ditch in FL
Paso County, Col, (of which Colorado
Springs is the chief city, is 1896 acres.
There are thirty-onc reservoirs CON
structed, at an estimated total cost of
$4,000, and four partially completed
reservoirs, which when finished. will
have cost SSl 200. There are in all sixty
bitches.
"A Russian physician has found that
microbes were always present in great
numbers in the fasting stomach of
healthy person. During the earlier
part of digestion they are always quite
numerous. The gastric juice, however,
tends to destroy the microbes though
no effect on digestion appears to be
excrtcd by them.
There are in European Russia 223
sugar factories, producing sugar from
bcctS. This year 2G9.5 94 dcsyatins of
land were occupied with the cultivation
of sugar beets, and produced a crop of
SOC, 3S9. 0s4 pools. The yield of sugar is
estimated for the current year CS90-9D
at 2S,305, 324 pools from all the working
factories, about 1000, 900 of which is
required for use in European Russia
n. Y. Sun.
Curious persons may like to test the
accuracy of some observations by DR..
Terc, an Austrian physician. He as
SertS that persons Stung by bees are
exempt for several months from the eff
fects of further singing, protection be-
ing afforded IL the same manner that
vaccination protects from smallpox.
He has also noticed that many stingS
are required to affect sufferers from
acute rheumatism. but that after evil
dence of poisoning. the persons are not
only secure from further stings, but
from the rheumatism itself.
If NJ. Jansen can persuade the
French authorities, it is probable that
before the century is ended wa shall
have an observatory as near the summit
of Mont Blame as it is possible to erect
habitable dwelling. That will put the
observatory on Ben Nevis quite into the
shade, and even the Lick Observatory
will be in the second rank. NJ. Jansen
has recently been mp the mountain. and
has made careful note of the difficulties.
but gives a decided opinion that it is
possible TO establish a station on what
is practically the ''Summit' of Mont
Blanc--or at feast an elevation of $1,000
feet or more above the level of the sea.
A prominent English statistical
writer in speaking of the cotton manu-.
factuTe in England. estimates that the
capital invested in the various branches
of the same in Great Britain alone can
not fall very far short of Ga, 900. 600, OF
1915. 600. 900. He basis his calculations
as follows: Taking the spindlcs at The
figure of lis. Cd. each. and the looms al
'e16 each. the amount invested in plant
will touch e45, O0O.000, and adding Il
this "A floating capital of e30.000, 00C
FULLY, which will be necessary to the
trade in importing the raw material
converting it into fabric. and distrib
uting the same to the world. Il total l.
obtained which indicates what is a
stake in this mighty industry"
w hen, IN prOJoplaSm, the mattc
out of which the plant cell is built NJ
was discovered. it was believed we were
nearing the problem of the origin o
life. But no one has ever made it an,
clearer than before how lie came to b.
riven to even this pristine. organic INA
. terial DR.. Julius WieSncr now con
tends that even prOtoplaSm is made III
of pluSOrlpS and that thp whole mass q
material is formed from the origina
plasome by division, Just as one cell i
10y division formed from another cell
Whence the life in this original, minut
and almost uncomfortable plasomc is de
rived is as much u mystery as evcr.-N
y Iu6rOpndpuf