The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-08-13
SCIENCE END INDUSTRY.

The Swiss National council has up-
propriatcd 100 900 francs 1924, ,0OO) for
an exhibit at the worlds fair of the
Swiss matchmaking industry. It also
approved subsidies for exhibits of other
industries including female work in
the manufacturing line.
49, London manufacturers of musical
instruments have discovered that the
skill of their worknen has deteriorated
since the abolition of the apprentice sys-
ten, and recommend n return to u
with II view to raise the standard OF
British workmanship in the trade"
The deep sea explorations that have
been conducted by the Austrian govern
ment in the eastern part of the Medi-
terranean show greater depths than any
before recorded. and as a result the
great depression of this sea must be
shifted considerably east from its for
mer central position on the maps.
Miss Ormerod, an English woman
who is enjoying high scientific repu-
tation, bit the tail of live triton some
years ago in order to study the effects of
the acrid secretion the animal gives out
when angry. She was seized with
s1asms and convulsions that lasted sew
eral hours, and sore throat that lasted
as many days
More shingles are being shipped TO
the east from Puget Sound than ever
before. Twenty to twenty-five car
loads go east every day from Tacoma
alone Last year the cut of shingles in
western Washington was 500, 900, 900,
and the sales about 425, 000, 900. This
year the cut will reach 1.00O 900, 900, and
the shipments 900, 900, 000.-N. Y. Post.
The healthiest children are those
whose mother has not reached 80 years.
Those born of mothers between 80 and
40 years of age are per cent
weaker, and those of mothers of over 4(
are ten per cent weaker The children
of aged fathers and younger mothers
have as general thing, strong con.
stitution, but if the parents are of the
| same age, the children are less robust.
AT the Royal gardens in Edinburgh
is large insectivorous plant, of thC
genus Roridula. The plant is native
of Tasmania. 1t is branching bush
with filifor1m leaves, more slender thar
| those of Drosera, and, like the latter
| furnished with glandular hairs, will
which it captures flies. The glandulai
! hairs of the leaf of Drosera will moi
move on contact with inorganic matter
but will contract on minute piece o
fresh meat in the space of twenty sec
onds. The insects most abundantly
captured by Drosera are ants.
1t appears that what have been con
sidered good, i. e., perfectly distinc
| species of moths and butterflies ar,
"wet season" and dry season" forms
of the same insect. Several so-calleC
species, some described even by Lin
n@us. have been shown by Mr.. Jenner
Weir to be such forms. We thus hav,
not only winter and summer forms, O
seasonal varieties but wet season
and dry season" varieties of forms
Thus 'species" are more and more, a
closer observations are made, becoming
arbitrary, or artificial sets of individ
uals.
The lighthouse board has received
information relating to Il magnesium
flash light, which, it is said, is going tt
prove far superior to anything which i
| yNo hhO"h Iol LIZ iIicNtoS Pun pO'SS
The light, which was devised by Prof
Schirm, of Berlin, Germany, is pro
duced by blowing a small quantity o
magnesium powder with current o
air, which has previously passed through
pumice stone saturated with benzine
into benzine gas flame. The tlasl
produced is exceedingly intense. Witt
the use of ten centigrams of magnesium
powder flash of 400, 900 candle powe
can be produced, which can be seen OF
a clear sunshiny day at distance o
six miles.
in Mindinac, the farthest south
eastern island in the Philippine group
upon one of its mountains, the volcan
Apo, party of botanical and ethnC
graphical explorers found recently, a
the height of $500 feet above the Sc
level, a colossal flower. The discoverel
DIR. Alexander Schadenberg, coul
scarcely believe his eyes when he say
amid the low-growing bushes the i'm
meIise buds of this flower growing lill
gigantic cabbage heads. But he wa
still more astonished when he found
specimen in full bloom, five-petale
flower nearly yard in diameter, a
large as carriage wheel, in fact
Weighing these when opportunit
served, it was round that single flowe
weighed over 22 pounds