The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-07-20
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

turkey mas adopted INC Austrian
smokeless powder.
A machine has been invented which
will turn out 80, 900 corkscrews a day.
Metal for Besscmer steel has been
found in New Mexico, aud big COM
pany has been formed to develop it.
The California State Board of Health
is trying to start a movement for the es-
tablishment of a lszaretto for the care of
lepers.
Japan has 700 earthquake observing
stations, and the records of the 500
shocks that annually visit that country
are accurately noted.
The experience of several experiment
stations is said to indicate that only a
few varieties of figs are adapted in hardi-
ness to any one location.
Pineapple juice proves to have re-
markable proteid digesting power, three
ounces dissolving ten or fifteen grains of
dried albumen in four hours.
The harbor of New-Haven, England,
presents an excellent example of the ex-
tensive use of plastic unset concrete, this
material having been almost exclusively
used in the construction of that massive
bTeakwater.
Mechanical cotton -pickers ana cleaners
are needed in India, owing to the com.
plants made in England as to the adul-
teration of India-grown cotton. Con-
veniences for storing and cleaning grain
and for husklng rice are also required.
DR.. Lauder Brunton declares that
cold water is valuable stimulant to
many if not all people. Its action on
the heart is more stimulating than
brandy. His own experience is that sip
ping half wine. glass of cold water
will raise his pulse from seventy-six to
100.
The manufacture of fints, for what
purpose is unknown, is still carried on
by single family in the French hamlet
of PoIcharioux. The stone is roughly
broken by the men and finished in the
house by the women; aud single
worker can dress 5000 or 5000 stones u
week.
The longest span of telephone wire in
the world is said to be across the Ohio
River, between Portsmouth, Ohio, and
South Portsmouth, Ky. The wires at
this point span the river from a pole on
the Ohio side, measuring 102 feet above
the ground to the Kentucky hills on the
opposite side, the distance being 3773
feet between poles.
A genealogical table of beings has
been prepared by French biologist, NJ.
Fauville, to show the successive devel-
opment of animals in different media,
beginning in sea water, continuing after
wards in fresh water, then in moist and
marshy soil to reach higher stage on
dry lands, The beginning was the cell,
which originated in sea water; the
climax was man, reared only in the air.
Medical authorities declare that fat
people are less able to resist the attacks
of disease or the shocks of injuries and
operations than the moderately thin.
Their respiratory muscles cannot 50 easily
act; their heart is often handicapped by
the deposit on it, and the least exertion
throws them into a perspiration. A very
fat person is in the position of man car
rying heavy burden and too warmly
clothed.
The adoption of lighter guns, with
corresponding increase in the thickness
of armor, is recommended by some Brit
ish naval officers. Admiral Scott points
out that the placing of over heavy guns
on certain ships has led to serious def
ciencies in armor. In recently pub
lished pamphlet he condemns the narrow
armor belt as worse than useless, and asks
some questions that the advocates of
belted ships will tiud hard to answer.
The certain wreck of the upper portion
of such ships and probable sinking OF
the vessel is dwelt on with much candor.