The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-07-11
sclENcE AND INpustNY.

The Ceylon pearl fishery last seansn
was the second largest on record during
the present century
The Florida orange crop during the
season just closed was about l,00O,OO0
boxes heavier than was estimated. The
yield was figured at 100000 boxes,
whereas it was fully 100000 boxes
Boston journal.
Prof. Shaler, of Harvard college,
and President Morrison, of Boston uni
versity, have discovered a petrihed hu-
man body in Falling Spring Cave.
Sequache Valley, Tennessee. The body
is perfect. Many curious weapons of
copper were at its feet.
The observatory at the summit OF
Great Blue Hill, Massachusetts,, was
built by Mr.. A. Lawrence Rotch as Il
private enterprise. 1t commands an un-
broken view of the horizon thirty-three
miles distant, of the mountains in New
Hampshire seventy miles away, and
displays weather signals for 1870 towns
and villages.
Philadelphia may by outsiders be
considered slow and quiet, but its resi-
dents laugh in their sleeves as they say
nothing but continue vigorously to saw
wood. BY the new census we learn
that the value of its annual manufac-
lures aggregates 800, 1000, 900, exceeding
those of New York by $50, 1000, 900. In
1880 Philadelphia had 1926, 600, 600 and
New York S475, 1000, 900.
The Milan museum has recently
come into the possession of a remarlSa-
BILE clock. This unique time-piece is
made entirely of bread-crumbs. A poor
Italian workmen made it. Every day
he set apart a portion of his modest
meal in order to carry out his. curious
project. The bread-crumbs saved by
him he hardened by the addition of salt,
and at last his tedious task is COM
pleted.
There is no doubt but the form of
roof has much to do with the draught of
a chimney. The fiat roof offers no re-
sistance to the passage of air, but as
the pitch is increased the current is
more and more disturbed, until with a
high-pitched and many-gabled roof it is
broken into innumerable eddies, some
of which are sure to curl down and
force the smoke and gases in the fiue
into the rooms below. Chimneys on
such roofs should be built higher than
ordinarily. y.-Scientific American.
On valley farm, two miles east of
Parkersburg, w. Va. well-diggers came
across an extensive graveyard of an an
tiquity probably exceeding that of the
Cherokee era. The skeletons were
found in a sitting posture facing due
west; but they crumbled at the slightest
pressure, though several of the tombs
were protected by superstructure of
massive stones Many ornaments of
bone and shell were found, but no
weapons of the kind the warlike red
skins of the Ohio valley used to bury
with their dead.-Belfords Magazine
When the earth was young, says Dr.
Ball, astronomer royal for Ireland, it
went around so fast that the day was
only three hours long. The earth was
liquid then, and it spun around and
around at that fearful speed, and as the
sun causes ever increasing tides upon it's
surface it at last burst in two. The
smaller part became the moon, which
has been going around the earth ever
since at an increasing distance. The in
tluences of the moon now rises tides on
the earth, and while there was any
liquid to operate on in the moon, the
earth returned the compliment. Irish
Times.
In 1890 the foreign importation of
prunes amounted to $4,000, 900 pounds, a
trifie heavier than in 1885, while in 1887
the shipments from abroad reached a
total of '92, 100000 pounds. California
produced in 1887, ll,SO0 600 pounds,
against 12, 600, 600 for 1890. The foreign
importation of figs has increased steadi-
ly for the past three years, and the an
nual shipments amount to about 10, 600,
600 pounds In California this produc-
tion has increased from 80, 900 pounds in
1887 to 200, 600 in 1890.
"A French geologist has made care
, full calculation of the amount of solid
matter yearly carried off into the ocean
by the action of the rivers of the world
and other causes. He estimates that the
, reduction of the average height of the
surface of the solid lands is 000G inches
each year. Making allowance for the
: corresponding rise in the bed OF the
5 ocean and taking no account of the oc
currence of volcanic and other eXcep
tional phenomena--the general tendcn
cy of which is to hasten the process o1
disintegration-the period at which the
solid land will have ceased to exist, anC
the surface of the earth will be covered
with water has been estimated. As
, however, that period is 1900, 900 years
l distant, the prediction need cause nc
a immediate disquietude. - Cincinnati
Commercial Gazette.