The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-05-29
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

"A ''gusher'' of the first magnitude
has been bored in the Batoum oil re-
| gion. 1t flows 5000 tons of pure naptha
daily, and has depressed the price nearly
| two-fifths.
The new census shows that Phila-
| delphia is the greatest manufacturing
city in this country, exceeding New
York. The value of Philadelphia's an
nual manufacture is $7OO,OOO,O 900, and
New Yorks $65O,OOO 900.
"A Franco-Russian syndicate with
capital of 81, 900, 900 has been formed for
the purpose of manufacturing artificial
granite. The factory will set up at
South River, New Jersey. At this
place, it is said, certain kind of clay
has been discovered admirably adapted
to the production of the pseudo-granite.
During the season of open naviga-
ton last year there were exported from
the port of st. Petersburg 100000
900 eggs. OF this number $4,000, 900
were shipped to Lubbock and 3O,OOO,OOO
to London, the remainder going to Hull,
Leith, Hamburg, Dundee and Amster-
dam. These exports are valued at 2,000,-
900 rubles
Arguing from the measurement of
the fifty-second parallel of north lati-
tude, between Valencia, Ireland, and
Orsk, Russia, the conclusion is reached
| that the earth's surface on this parallel
| is not that of an ellipsoid of revolution.
This confirms the conclusions reached
in this country when the forty-second
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the earth is not perfect spheroid.
DR. Oliver Wendell Holmes believes
that body and mind are much influenced
by food. He says: 81 am persuaded
that too exclusively porcine diet gives
a bristly character to the beard and
hair. L can never stray among the vii
lage people of our windy capes without
now and then coming upon human
being who looks as if he had been split,
sailed, and dried like the salt fish which
has built up his arid organism.
The ether will transmit speech as
well as horsepower. The photophone
of Prof. Bell shows that it is possible to
talk along beam of light between two
distant points which are not connected
by wire. Up to the present time it has
not been possible to speak in this man
ner for greater distance than a few
hundred feet, but the wonderful fact
has been demonstrated that ray of
light, and, therefore, the ether can
transmit speech. Review.
Coal has lately been sent from
Philadelphia to Hamburg, Palermo and
Cuba, Colon, Porto Rico, Martinique
and st. Thomas by steamers, and
shipped in sailing vessels to San Fran
cisco, Laguayra and Mexican ports.
These shipments were not made in bal
last, but on orders for commercial use.
Coal is going from the Virginia coal
fields to Spain and Brazil. From this
time forth it is evident that the worlds
supply will be drawn less and less from
the deep mines of Great Britain and
more and more from our own Mines
Philadelphia Record.
Effects of variously colored lights
on insane persons have been observed
by the director of the Milan insane
asylum. A melancholy patient in a
rosy light improved perceptibly in
twelve hours. In twenty-four hours he
called for food, although for many pre-
ceding days nourishment had been adj
ministered to him against his will.
Thereupon the director had rooms fur
nished in solid colors and confined pa
tients in them. Green and blue were
found to be the most quieting, rose the
most cheering, red the most exciting.
All the patients in the asylum will be
confined hereafter in apartments fur
nished in colors to suit the nature of
their maladies.
The reports of the production of
naptha in Russia for the year 1890 have
just been published. On the Apsheron
peninsula (BaAoo) the yield was 2S9,-
900. 600 pools. of which 1859, 027, 700 pools
were worked into various products
kerosene, grease, etc., and the rest
shipped raw. In northern Caucasia the
yield of naptha was 1,656,000 pools.
This shows remarkable increase in
the production for the last eighteen
years. In 1877 only 100000 pools
We're produced on the Apsheron PENN
sula; in 1885 the yield reached 116, 000,-
900, and last year it amounted to $780,
OOO,O 900. The expectation of naptha was
enlarged correspondingly. In 1880 only
100000 pools were exported; in 1855
$1,000, 900 pools were exported by sea
and 100000 by the trans Caucasian
railroads. Last year 112,OOO,0OO were
sent across sea and So, 364, $40 pools by
the railroads.
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