The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-07-24
IScIENcE AND INDUSTRY.

-Jne of the revelations of the census
is the fact that Alabama produces more
iron ore than Pennsylvania.
-Borers of the city artesian well at
Fort Worth, Tex, are of the opinion
that the drill will soon penetrate huge
volume of boiling water, as the tenn
perature increases with every few feet
they go down, and at last accounts was
121 degrees, at depth of 1900 feet.
1t is a mistake to suppose the
weather is colder the farther north one
goes. The northern pole of greatest
cold is only about 800 miles northeast of
NakutSk, Siberia, where the mean an
nual temperature is a little lower than
in the highest ATTITUDES reached by
Mares and Greedy, 1000 miles further
north.
If cloth can be made out of fine
spun glass, it would seem simple mat
ter to make it out of wood. This is now
done by boiling strips of fine-grained
timber crushing them between rolls,
carding the filaments into parallel lines,
as with ordinary textile material, and
spinning them into threads, from which
the cloth can be woven in the usual way.
The majority of people die sooner
than they should. George Z. Waring,
Jr., says: disease is not consequence
of life: it is due to unnatural conditions
of living-to neglect, abuse and want"
And DIR. Stephen Smith says: ''Man is
born to health and longevity; disease is
abnormal and death, except from old
age, is accidental, and both are pre-
ventable by human agencies"
The Reading Iron Company, of
Reading, Pa, it is stated, is shipping
large quantities of iron tubing to the
Turkish and Russian oil fields. 1t re-
Gently sent 1900 feet of six, eight and
ten-inch pipe to Batoum, on the Black
Sea Ten-inch piping is being made for
shipment to Australia, and ice-making
piping for Mexico.
According to an Austrian journal,
one of the most extensive velvet manu-
factories in that country has adopted
very original and effective method in
the publication of it's waste waters.
Briefly, the water, colored with ar inc
and different vegetable dyestuffs, and
which often looks like ink, is purified
by system of cleansing basins. Then
mixture of sulphate of iron and sui
phate of maguesia, or bitter salt is
made to flow into the escaping water,
which, after standing some thirty
hours, is allowed to escape into the
river or creek. - Philadelphia Tele-
graph.
-Sarno, German chemist, finds nj
trio acid abundant in annual plants,
and more or less in nearly all families
of plants. singular observation is
that where plants formerly supposed to
be rootSparasites, and now called sapro-
phytes, are connected with certain
bush-ro5ts. Such roots have no nitric
acid. For instance. the cancer root is
only found under beech trees. and yet
no connection exists between the beech
and this plant. These roots ought not
to have any nitric acid, if Sarno is
right.
"A lover of antiquities in Odessa has
acquired some archaic treasures which
were dug from the soil of ancient Olivia,
now the village of Parootine, in Kher-
son. They consist of ancient ornaments
of gold, silver and alabaster of exquis.
lite workmanship. They seem to belong
to the time when the arts of sculpture
and engraving were in their bloom in
Greece. The Russian papers regret
that such antiquarian treasures should
be kept in a private house instead of
public museum, where the student and
the artist could freely examine them.
The board of managers of the Geo
graphical society of Russia have made
an agreement with the managers of the
Academy of Science to combine their
ethnographical and archaeological mu-
seums and to exhibit all their antigua
rian and historical treasures in the halls
of the academy. This will constitute
the st. Petersburgh Museum of Eth
biography and Archaeology, the richest
in Europe, containing more objects of
curiosity than any similar institution.
A catalogue of all the antiquities of the
museum will be issued by the Geo
graphical society.