The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-10-01
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.


Photography has determined the
cause of the recent glacial avalanche in
the Alps. It was hydraulic pressure
beneath and behind the glacier, pro-
! duced by masses of ice falling into con-
Meeting water above and Mt a consider
able distance.
Indiana will make fine display at
tho worlds fair of the results OF rnnnu-
featuring Industries growing out of the
discovery of natural gas Since lulinna
first began to use the gas in 1885. it Is
claimed, the growth of manufactures
in the state has been greater than in
any other state in the Union.
The best lockwood comes from the
Caucasus, hitherto Turkish territory,
but taken by Russia. Since 1872 some
of the forests have been closed and
others deuuded of the tree. At that
time 1sT2) in Persia wood was dis
covered similar to the Turkish or
Abasian lockwood, and as much as 5000
tons have, in some years been imported
from that country.
The only wild monkeys in Europe
are those which inhabit the Rock of
Gibralter. They were once numerous
and bold, but the constant persecution
If their human brethren has made them
1uitc shy and reduced their tribe to the
verge of extinction. heremaining rep
resentatives OF the tribe--probabl less
than score-are carefully preserved
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The stratifed masses of the carth's
crnst, where most fully developed, at
tain united thickness of not less than
II }, 600 feet. II they were all laid down
at the most rapid recorded rate of de.
nudation they would require u period
of Is, 900, 900 years for their completion.
If they were laid down at the slowest
rate they would demand period of not
less than 10000, 900.
Prehistoric human skeletons have
been discovered in the excavation of
cliff in Switzerland. These skeletons
are no nearer the ape than modern
ones Vogt said recently that all the
races of men have been visited, and hui
man bones exhumed in all the coun-
tries, and yet not shadow of trace Of
the missing link had been found.
Throughout all Japan there are
now open for traffic 1,717 miles of rail-
way. The only section in the neigh
borhood of the capital which has been
opened during the past twelve months
is that stretching northward to Awo-
mou. This line, 127 miles in length,
was opened in the autumn of 1891, and
railway communication has thus been
completed to the most northerly coast
of the mainland of Japan toward Hado-
date. The only other line in progress is
the filing up of gap of five miles in
the line connecting Yokohama with the
northwest coast.
Over $50 900 pounds of beet sugar
have been produced at the Chino fac
tory in San Bernardino, Cal, from this
years crop, showing an enormous
growth of this industry in the state.
Four hundred Thousand acres of beets
were planted against 2,70O acres last
year The growers have netted $3.50 a
| ton, and one man, who bought twenty
acres of land and raised fifteen tons to
the acre, paid for this land with the
first beet crop Since bounty was
placed on beet sugar the farmers of
California have been quick to see the
profit in this industry
The limit of size in object glasses
has not yet been reached The maker
| Tor polisher) of the reflector for the
Lick observatory believes that he can
turn out a perfect object glass five feet
in diameter if some one gives him an
order for it. The chief difficulty in
constructing large rehectors is mechan-
ical. 1t is hard to cut glass disks of
great size perfectly free from defects
Even if instruments several times as
large as existing refectors should be
made it is by no means certain that
their power of penetrating the mys-
teries of the heavens would be proper
tionate to their sizes. 1ty