The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1892-07-15
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

way $3.50 tons of iron ore, of which
81, $50 tons went to Westphalia and So
Gal tons to upper Schleswig.
The daily capacity of the Pillsbury-
Washburn Flour Mills Company is 49,.
800 barrels; of the Northwestern Con-
solidated Milling Company, 10000; of
the Washburn-Crosby Company, 10000,
and of the Minneapolis Flour Manufac-
turing Company, $500.
The microscope has revealed many
wonders, among others that the COM
mon caterpillar has 1000 muscles in his
body; that the drone bees eyes each
contain |, 300 mirrors, and that the large
prominent eyes of the brilliant dragon
flies are each furnished with 5000 pol.
ished lenses
Tobacco has been cultivated, with
more or less success. in southern Queens
land for many years. the duty on inn
ported leaf being thirty-five cents, and
upon manufactured tobacco seventy
five cents per pound, while the local ar
ticle pays no duty. There are ten cigar
factories in the colony.
The amount of whalebone taken
annually does not now much exceed
200, 900 pounds. The largest of this is
taken by the whalers sailing out of
ports on the Pacific coast. A few years
ago the amount taken reached as high
as 100000 pounds, annually, and in
some years it went above these figures.
The price has gone up from so cents a
pound to IS wholesale. Boston Tran
script
In Russia there are $780, 900 acres
planted to sunflowers One variety
has small seeds for the production of
oil; the other has larger seeds, and is
used for consumption, like our peanuts
The average yield is 1850 pounds per
acre, and the seeds sell at one and
one-half cents per pound, the farmers
income being $50 per acre.
The total area cultivated in En-
gland in 1891 was 4S.179,47S acres. as
| against 4S,0i5.7 acres in 1890. The
| acres, as against 9.514,349 acres in 1890:
green crops. 4,510.653 acres in 1891, and
4,5S4, las acres last year; hops So, As
acres, against "a, 90 acres: small fruits,
80, 49, acres. compared with 46, 133 acres
in 1890.
A scientist states that in the course
of about 100000 years from now the
forces at work on the earth will have
completely leveled its surface. so that
there will no longer be hills or valleys,
continents or distinctive oceans. All
the land will have been washed down
into the sea, which will then cover all
with watery mantel and render inn
possible any life except that which can
exist without dry land.
M. Lipmann has terminated. for a
time. his experiments at LaSarbonne in
obtaining colored photographs He has
succeeded in getting four, which are to
be presented to the Academy at the
next sitting. One represents fragment
of a painted glass window, with four
colors; the second basket of oranges;
the third two flags, those of Russia and
and France: the fourth superb macaw.
| The colors are most brilliant, but the
! learned experimentalist grieves to say
| that he cannot yet master the repro
duction of several colors, but hopes for
success by means of that all-Dowerful
| aid perseverance philadelphia Record.
Many tons of beeswax are imported
to h 5 country from tropical and sub
tropical parts of this continent and
| from Spain. Much of this comes from
Cuba, where tropical vegetation sup
ports and employs an enormous number
! of bees Much of the Cuban wax comes
| in great masses shaped like the frus-
trum of a pyramid, and weighing from
sixty-five to seventy pounds each. In
| spite of the fact that various substi-
tutes for wax have been discovered, it
is still used in great quantities in the
manufacture of cand les, especially for
ecclesiastical use. Much of it, too. is
used in the manufacture of wax lay fig
ures, not only for m useums and the like,
but for milliners and mantua makers.
1t is now reported that an efficient
anecdote for poisoning by carbolic acid
has been discovered by an Italian tailor
who swallowed by mistake thirty
| grammes of carbolic acid. DR.. Morett,
of Ancona. using rubber sound, imme-
diately introduced by slow degrees into
the patients stomach a strong solution
of sulphate OF soda. which forms with
carbolic acid harmless mixture. In
an hours time the patient. who had
been in a most critical condition. began
to revive, the pulse became better and
the respiration improved Inhalations
OF ammonia We're then used to hasten
up the process. and little by little the
poisoned man rallied so much that an
emetic. followed by a dose Of lime
water. finished the cure.
4 Rural Directory.
"My little man, can you tell me
where Mr.. Sanford lives?"