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CLEANS or SCIENCE


II Is stated that a machine has been
invented which will pick from the
plant 1900 pounds of seed cotton in
two hours According TO a test made
in Mississippi. Is men would have TO
work 10 hours TO do what the machine
did in two hours
Nature says that the Russian painter
Krilof is painting the portraits of typical
representatives of the various races in-
cluded in the Russian Empire. In carry
ing out his purpose. he has undertaken
many long Journeys; and he has now
a small gallery which ought to be Of
considerable value from an anthropologi-
cal as well as from an artistic point of
view.
The new industry of camphor produc-
tion gives promise of being permanently
established in Florida 1t Is believed
that IN ten year. time there will be
more camphor trees than orange trees
in Florida, and that the camphor indus
try will be more profitable than that OF
sugar. 1t is stated that the camphor
obtained from the Florida trees APP
proaches more nearly to that Of Japan
than to Chinese camphor, since the odor
OF safro is distinctly recognizable
The electric motor is formidable
rival Of the gas engine, the hot air
engine. and the small steam engine; but
it has not displaced the large sized steam
engine anywhere. On the contrary,
the building of these has been greatly
stimulated by the demand of electric
s~hf
motors of 10 or 20 horse power are
common enough, but no one has yet
ventured to replace the steam locomo-
tive, generating from a hundred to a
thousand horse power. - [Pittsburg
Chronicle Telegraph.
A German statistician says that there
are 3,9S5 paper mills in the world, and
that OF the 1904, ,00O,000 pounds of paper
turned out annually, half is used for
printing, 100000. 900 pounds being re-
quired for newspapers alone, the con-
sumption of which has risen by 200. 000.-
600 pounds in the last decade. He
alleges that on an average an English.
man uses annually III pounds of paper.
an American 10+, German 8, French
man II, an Italian or an Austrian 81, a
Spaniard II, a Russian II, and a Mexi.
can 2 2-IScientific American.
The grip of an ants jaw is retained
even after the body has been bitten off
and nothing but the head remains. This
knowledge is possessed by a certain
tribe of Indians in Brazil, who put the
ants to very peculiar use. When an
Indian gets cash cut in his hand, in.
stead of havinghls hand sewed together
as physicians do in this untry, he
procures five or six large black ants,
and. holding their heads near the cash,
they bring their jaws together in biting
the flesh, aud thus pull the two sides Of
the cash together. Then the Indian
pinches off the bodies Of the ants, and
leaves their heads clinging to the cash,
which is held together until the cash Is
perfectly healed. II Medical Record.
The question has been raised by
physician well posted in matters of rail-
way sanitation whether the fashion of
plush paneling as well as upholstering
for the interior of sleeping cars is the
best to use as regards freedom from
carrying infection from contagious
diseases. The trains leading toward
the various health resorts carry those suf-
fering from consumption or any microbic
diseases whose germs may remain in
such surroundings II would Of course
be next to impossible to trace results to
cause in this paIticular direction, but 1t
certainly seems as il a polished wood
finish that can be readily cleaned is
freer from any suspcions OF this class
of danger. -lChicago Railway Review.