Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1892-10-06
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

In 1883 Kansas had wheat acreage
Of less than 1000, 900 acres. This year
she IS said 10 have 100000,
The florists Of the country report
that the investment OF capital in their
business amounts 10 80. 00O, 600, and
that their sales of plants and cut flowers
during the year exceeded S2G, ,00a, 900.
The California Academy Of Sciences
has become the possessor Of an un-
usually sound skeleton Of a rhachia-
neetes glaucus, or California gray whale
II is forty-hve feet in length and has
twenty-six ribs, seven on the curve and
two great scapue, resembling broad
exes. The jaws are nine feet in length.
New York City is going TO build the
biggest dam in the world in the town
Of Cortland. II will join two hills
nearly 2, 1000 feet apart Back Of it will
be monster reservoir, where $1,000
300, 900 gallons of water will be stored.
The city will then be without fear Of a
water famine for fifty years 10 come,
even ip the dryest summer.
The present population Of the globe
is supposed TO be about ], 467, 600, 900,
and it is estimated that the maximum
Of inhabitants that can be sustained on
the entire land surface Of the earth is
8, ,094, 900, 600 and that this figure viii
be reached A. d. 2012 or in about one
hundred and eighty years at the present
ratio of increase, which is s per cent
per decade.
The railway mileage Of Canada has
about doubled during the past ten
years In 1881 there were z 260 miles,
in 1891, a. 009 miles The paid-up capi-
tai is put down at SIC G22, 75S, including
si47, lG5, ASP of government bonuses,
Ell, POI, ,3l4 of government loans, 1900,
900 government subscriptions to shares
and si3, 1902 500 Of municipal aid The
earnings last year were SIS 1872, 900 and
the expenses s34, $50, s4) -- Toronto
Globe.
A mosquitoes bill t an elaborate
contrivance, and consists of two sharp
saws and a lance inclosel in a sheath,
which is also employed as pump. Tho
saws are bony. but flexible. and the
teeth are near the end, which is pointed
The lance is perhaps the most perfect
instrument known in the world Of mi-
mute things. 1t is FIRST thrust into the
flesh, and the opening is enlarged by
the saws, which play beside it until the
sheath can be inserted. The saving is
what causes irritation when a mosquito
is biting.
Kansas is becoming one Of the
greatest salt centcrs in the world The
Lyons Salt Company have shaft over
/, 900 feet deep and the salt deposit has
q, Tn,fI, .f oe- fTf,.,., .,-.+.-
city with streets cut in
pure salt 1t cost over sl0o 600 - sink
the shaft and the machinery is said to
cost another hundred thousand The
salt as it is mined is almost absolutely
pure, and it IS claimed that this one
mine could supply the whole land for
centuries
Prof Mosso, of Turin, has demon
strated the Importance Of keeping the
surface and cNtremitics Of the body
warm during brain work by clearly
proving that whore the brain is active
much more blood is sent to It from the
parts OF the body. Prof
Nosso has also found that the circula-
ion Of the blood in the brain is subject
10 fluctuations which are apparently
lot dependent on physical a tivity.
Fatigue caused br brain work acts as
poison. which affects all the organs.
specially the muscular vstesn The
blood of dogs fatigued by long racing
llso acts rs O. poison and when injected
nto other dog makes them exhibit all
hc symptoms Of fatigue. Sense of
atigue seems to be due TO the products
,f the nerve cells rather than 10 the
deficiency of proper substance Illus
rated American.