The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-02-21
soIENoE AND INDUSTRY.

The State mine inspector of Indiana
reports that there are seventy-seven coal
mines in the State, with capital of
S2,0s1,000. The output last year was
9,676, 900 tons
The total area under ditch in El
Paso County, Col, (of which Colorado
Springs is the chief city, is II, ,94O acres
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 S31 200. 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 1913
sugar factories, producing sugar from
beets This year 2Go, 504 desyatins of
land were occupied with the cultivation
of sugar beets, and produced a crop of
800, $50, Os4 poods. The yield of sugar is
estimated for the current year (1S90-9D
at 2S,3O5, ,324 poods from all the working
factories, about $1,000, 600 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
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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 evi-
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. M. Jansen
has recently been up the mountain, and
has made careful note of the difficulties,
but gives decided opinion that it is
possible to establish station on what
is practically the summit" of Mont
Blanc-or at least an elevation of 900
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 branches
of the same in Great Britain alone can
not fall very far short of e75, 900, 900, or
1915, 100000. He basis his calculations
as follows: "Taking the spindles at the
figure of us. Cd. each, and the looms at
e16 each, the amount invested in plants
will touch g45, 5,000,0O0, and adding to
this a floating capital of 100000, 900
fully, which will be necessary to the
trade in importing the raw material,
converting it into fabric, and distrib-
uting the same to the world, total is
obtained which indicates what is at
stake in this mighty industry"
When, in protoplasm the matter
out of which the plant cell is built up
was discovered, it was believed we were
nearing the problem of the origin of
life. But no one has ever made it any
clearer than before how life came to be
given to even this pristine, organic ma
terial Dr. julius Wiesner now con-
tends that even protoplasm is made up
of plasomes, and that the whole mass of
material is formed from the original
plasome by division, just as one cell is
by division formed from another cell
Whence the life in this original, minute
and almost inconceivable plasome is de-
rived is as much a mystery as ever.-N.
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