The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1891-02-14
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.


The State mine inspector of Indiana
reports that there are seventy-seven coal
mines in the State, with n capital Of
So, Os1 900. The output last year was
SOTO, 900 tons.
The total area under ditch in Ell
Paso County, Col, (of which Colorado
Springs is the chief city, is 11,946 acrcS.
There are thirty-one reservoirs con-
structed, at an estimated total cost OF
500, 900, and four partially completed
reservoirs, which when finished, will
have cost $3l 900. There are in all sixty
bitches.
"A Russian physician has found that
microbes were always present in great
numbers in the fasting stomach of a
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
exerted by them.
There are in European Russia 223
sugar factories, producing sugar from
beets. This year 269, 594 ~desyatins Of
land were occupied with the cultivation
of sugar beets, and produced a crop OF
800, $50, O84 pools. The yield Of sugar Is
estimated for the current year Qs9O-9l)
ut 90, 3O5, 1924 pools from all the working
factories, about 81, 900, 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 DIR.
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 in 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 we shall
have an observatory as near the summit
of Mont Blanc as it is possible to erect
a 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 up the mountain, and
has made careful note of the difficulties,
but gives a decided opinion that it is
possible to establish q station on what
is practically the summit" Of Mont
Blanc-or at least an elevation of Is, 00C
feet or more above the level of the sea.
"A prominent English statistical
writer, in speaking of the cotton manu-
facture In England, estimates that the
capital invested in the various branche.
Of the same in Great Britain alone car
not fall very far short of s75, 00O,O 900, o,
1875, 900, 600. He basis his calculation.
as follows: ''Taking the spindles at the
figure Of IT'S. Cd. each, and the looms a
R16 each, the amount invested in plant!
will touch R45, 900, 900, and adding Il
this a floating capital of R3O, OO0, 0O(
fully, which will be necessary to the
trade in importing the raw material
converting 1t into fabric, and distrib
uting the same TO the world, a total II
obtained which indicates what Is a
stake in this mighty industry"
When, in protoplasm, the matter
out of which the plant cell Is built w
was discovered, 1t was believed we were
nearing the problem of the origin O.
life. But no one has W made it any
clearer than before how life came to b,
given to eve this pristine, organic ma
terial. DIR. Julius Wiesner now con
tends that even ~protoplasm Is made W
Of plasomes, and that the whole mass o
material Is formed from the origina
plasome by division, just as one cell Il
by division formed from another cell
Whence the life in this original, minute
and almost uncomfortable plasome is de
rived is as much a mystery as ever.-N
" Inlo-nal,,t