The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-05-16
solENoE ANp INDUSTRY.

I'm France hard water has been sue
cessfully made soft by means of cleo.
trolysis, the method used being com
paratively Inexpensive.
According to the St Louis Globe
Democrat, Carthage, Mo-, furnishes
three-fourths of the worlds supply OF
zinc. The amount got out averages S9O,-
900 worth every week.
DR. Justin, of Syracuse, has organ
lied S5,00O00 company to manufac-
ture his dynamite shells, which will
blow up invading warships MS certainly
as that dried apples will blow up boy
who eats too many of them.
"A rope company in st. Louis re-
Gently made what is claimed to be the
largest shipment of cable ever carried
by one car. Two reels of wire, weigh
ing lao, 600 pounds, were shipped on a
special four-truck platform car.
1t has been concluded that with a
balloon $50 feet long, with a maximum
diameter of 30 feet, speed of. 25 to 30
miles can be attained At the same
time it is thought that the problem of
fight is more likely to be solved by
means of an aeroplane than with the
| balloon.
John b. Mason, q mill overseer at
Fall River, says the majority of women
and girls in the factories there dip
snuff. They moisten wad of it and
| tuck it down between the under lip and
the gum, where it's presence is always
revealed by a. little lump the size of a
bean. Here is another field for the re.
| former.
An ingenious Frenchman has dis
covered a process of recovering the tin
contained in the wash waters of sill,
which have been weighted, and he has
accordingly received from the French
society for the encouragement of ma
tional industry the prize allotted for the
utilization of residual substances. 1t is
estimated that Lyons alone will effect
an annual economy of 100000.
1t is mistake to suppose that the
weather is colder the further north one
goes. The northern pole of greatest
cold is only about three hundred miles
northeast of Yaltutsk, Siberia, where
the mean annual temperature is little
lower than in the highest latitudes
reached by Mares and Greeley 1,00C
| miles 1urJner nCrUH.
The average number of American
patents issued yearly is about 10000.
Compared with the number issued in
any country this is very large. En-
gland, which comes nearest to us, issues
only about 1000 or 5000 year, and its
system is very much more lax than
ours. Patents nre issued without any
conditions as to the novelty or merits
and not two applications in a hun
dred are rejected. In Prussia the
number granted annually is less than q
hundred; in Belgium 800 to 1000. The
American inventive genius has become
it would seem, almost a monopoly.-N
Y. Independent.
The new natural history at South
Kensington has lately had an addition
to it's treasures in the form of a whale
skeleton which was brought from Tho
Bering sea. A specimen of this particu
lar kind of animal, known to scientist
as Rhachianectes glaucus, has never be
fore been brought to this country. 1t
present habitat is found in the northern
parts of the Pacific, and in the sea o
Kamchatka; but it is believed to hav
had much wider range in past times
for fossil remains of the species, or o
one very nearly akin to it, have beel
, found both in Norway and Sweden.
1t is said that between go, 900, 900, 90
5 and 100, 900, 900, 900 codfishes are take
from the sea around the shores of New
foundland every year. But even tina
: quantity seems small when we con
slider that a single cod yields somethin
like $500, 900 eggs each year, and tina
: over 100000 eggs have been found il
the roe of single cod. A herring @
six or seven ounces in weight is pre-
l vided with 10000, 900 ova. After max
. ing all reasonable allowances for tn
l destruction of eggs and of the young,
7 has been calculated that in three year
4 a single pair of herrings would produc
v 154, 900, 900. Button once said that if
S pair of herrings were left to breed an
S multiply undisturbed for a period {
twenty years, they would yield a tisl
| bulk equal to the size of our globes
n Louis Republic.
o DIR. A. de Bausset is the projecto
g of an air-ship, which, he says, he bt
o lieves will successfully travel in the a
a at the height of four and one-half mile
e or just above the region where rain b.
o comes snow. The ship is to be 72S fee
in length to be made of steel with a
= alloy of aluminium and is pointed bot
t at the front and rear. 1t is to be pr,
n PEELED by dynamous and explosive el
t gines located upon the hurricane dec
t and on the between-decl1s of the CT
d underneath the ship. The car is to /
+ fully equipped with all the appliance
e of latter day six-day ocean steamship
J, Accommodation are to be made for q
first-class passengers, with their ba
g gage, and from fly to fifty-five tons
# mail matter The only danger to
IS feared at the height in which the sh
o will travel, DR.. de Bausset says, will
2 tornadoes. The lookout, he adds, won
u be sure to see these, and by the eXpl
sion of dynamite will be able to dis.
II pate them.-N. Y. World.
=. SOME FAMOUS CAMEOS.
h Rare and Exquisite Workmanship on Roc
l. and Crystals.
|, The most famous gems are perha
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