The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-04-17
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

The lumber cut in the Ashland,
Wis. district for 1890 foots up OO,OOO,-
600 feet.
I'm the new discovery for plotogra-
ply in natural colors, when the prints
are viewed by transmitted in place of
reflected light each color is replaced by
its complementary one.
Statistics of lumber production on
the Pacific Coast ring 1890 show that
Washington produced 1890, III 900; Ore
gon, $40, 100000. and California, 1884,
916, 900 feet, making a total output for
the three Pacific coast states So, So, 370,-
900 feet
The other day the town of Auburn,
Ala. was entirely enveloped in dark
ness at nine o'clock a. IN. Negroes and
ignorant whites ran out of their homes
screaming and frightened, thinking the
day of Judgment had come. The phe-
nomenon was purely local.
"A gigantic pyramid, the most inter-
esting relic on the American continent,
lies few miles to the west of Pueblo
in old Mexico. Humboldt describes it
as a work of such magnitude and vast
ness as, next to the pyramids of Egypt,
has never before been seen in the
world. It's height is 172 feet and the
sides of it's base 1855 feet, being 275 feet
lower than the great pyramid of Cheops,
and G27 feet longer.
AT Port Blakely, near Seattle;
Wash, is situated the largest lumber
mill in the world. The huge machinery
of +1,iS rrraof will 81 h,,;11;pcr
102 by 44S feet, while there is Il fireroom
100 by Go feet and shop ITO by 50 feet
Cleared up and in trim it could increase
it's great regulation cut from 800 600 q
day to 800, 000or 600, 900. The only diff
ficulty would be in getting the colossal
quantity of sawed lumber out of the
way.
The New York Commercial Bulle-
tin reports as to the extent of new
buildings in twenty-five cities of this
country, having an aggregate popula-
ton OF 100000, that the number
erected during the year 1890 was 81, 420
and the estimated value 1926, SOL SOL.
The total population of the country was
about eight and one-half times that of
the cities named, the cost of the new
buildings during the year in all other
cities and towns of only half as great
per capita as the cost in the cities
named would aggregate about $3.50. OO0,-
900, making the total for the entire
country over 81 ,07G, 900, 900.
The respiration of insects has been
the subject of study by NJ. Conteiean.
who has found that, contrary to what
takes place in vertebrates, the move
ment of inspiration is passive and that
of expiration active The air is driven
from the body by a contractile effort.
Hence, when the insect is wounded the
flow of blood occurs at each expiration.
The respiratory movement not inter
rupted by cutting off the head, nor by
the absorption of curare, which pro-
duces an immediate cessation in man.
The Prussian authorities have re-
Gently published table showing the
progress which has been made in rail-
road service in that country in the last
! ten vears-the decade which has elapsed
since thu acquisition of most of the
railroads by the government. The com
parison is made between the whole gov
ernment system in 1890 and the CORE
spending systems of roads in 1880,
whether owned at that time by the gov
eminent or by private corporations. In
this time the mileage has increased %
per cent, the number of stations 40 per
cent. The number of locomotives has
increased 81 per cent, of passenger cars,
35 per cent. and Of freight ears, 30 per
cent.-Railroad Gazette.
The poisons used by the natives Of
Africa to render fatal the wounds made
with their arrows. as described by Mr..
Stanley in his recent work on Africa,
are, when fresh. of most extraordinary
power. Faintncss, palpitation of the
heart nausea. pallor. and beads of pers-
piration break out over the body with
extraordinary promptncs', and death
enSues. One man is said to have died
within one minute from Il mere pin-hole
puncture in the right arm and right
breast: another man died within an
hour and quarter after being shot: a
woman died during the time that she
was carried Il distance of a hundred
PAGES; others died in varying spaces of
time up to hundred hours.
The other day Professor Charles A.
Yong. the eminent Princeton astrono-
mer, was chatting about astronomy in
the court of the Palace hotel, San Fran
cisco, when some one asked him: ''What
is to you, professor, the most wonderful
and startling fact in astronomy?'
well" said the professor, 81 should
say the fact that your great Lick tele-
| 10 oh ne ct
and that every one of them is sun,
theoretically and by analogy giving
light and heat to his planets. You
know the Lick telescope reveals stars
so small that it would require 10000 of
them to be visible to the naked eye"
A TERRIBLE MISTAKE.
He Mistook tho Father of His Girl for the