Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-03-12
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.
Nearly nil the petroleum demo,

Nearly oil the petroleum deposits
of Southern California are situated in
Los Angeles and Ventura counties, and
they occupy an area of ESQ, 900 acres
This important product is rapidly be.
coming one of the most valuable in
Southern California, the yield for 1889
aggregating in value over 81, 600, 0O0
The first consignment of fresh SAL
mon from British Columbia to Europe,
which consisted of $4,000 pounds from
Frazer river, left New York the other
day for Hamburg in cold storage com
partment of German steamer. Frozen
salmon from Canada have often been
sent to England, but this is the first
cargo from the Pacific Coast, and IL the
experiment proves successful very
large trade will result. The rivers of
British Columbia yielded nearly II ,00O,-
600 pounds of salmon during 1891, al
though it was reported as bad year. -
N. Y. Tribune.
"A few years ago it was suspected
that the latitude of places on the earth S
surface changes. A number of astron-
omcrs agreed to make observations for
two years, and the result has just been
made public. Latitudes do change
Berlin, for example, was fifty feet
nearer the north pole in Septembe
than it was in March. This change is
not, of course shifting of any one
point on the earth's surface. 1t is a
fitting of the axis of the earth.
1T would require the intellect of a
Babbuge to wrestle with the statistics
of matches. That $4,000, 900 are burned
every day in Europe seems below the
mark. Such firms as Messrs. Dixon, at
Manchester, turn out 0, 900, 900 day, and
many in London 100000 or 5000, OOO
The consumption of phosphorus for the
purpose in England and France shows
that about 25O,OOO, 900, 900 year are
turned out in these two countries alone.
1t is we'll known that horses can
hear deep sounds which we cannot. For
days previous to the earthquake in the
Riviera, the horses there showed every
symptom of abject fear, which continued
without any change of character till the
fury of the convulsion broke forth. But
not till n few seconds before the earth be-
gan to quake did human beings hear any
sounds, while it is extremely proba BILE
noises for two or three days previously.
DR. NJ. Segers, of the Argentine
fleet, says that mussels are rarely in
furious at their maximum time of
growth, which corresponds with the
full of the moon; but when the moon
wanes, they become poor and often
poisonous. The poisonous quality ap-
parently results from the death of large
numbers of them at this time and the
putrefaction of their bodies vie. ding
ptomaines, which are absorbed by the
surviving mollusks
The Railway Review tells of a
novel method of laying foundations in
swampy soil recently employed by an
American engineer. The building to
be supported was low wooden one
which it was proposed to use for tho
storage of machinery. Casks were set
in holes in the ground along the line of
posts and were filed to the depth OF
about one foot with iron turnings The
posts We're placed in the casks, which
We're then filed with iron turnings
compactly rammed in place. A solution
of salt and water was slowly poured
over the turnings under the action OF
which they solidified into a hard mass
The heat of the oxidation of the iron
was so great that the posts were
charred. This also served to act as a
preservative, and to that extent the
iron turnings are probably superior to
concrete under similar conditions.