The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-10-29
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.


I'm 1850 the property OF th' Roman
Catholics in this country amounted to
80 .256, ,75s, which In 1890 had increased
to ais, 3Sf ,b1G. The Methodists hold
the largest total, viz, Sl3O,0iS,070,
while the Episcopalians are the richest
IN proportion to their membership.
The anti.porlS people say that the
eating of pork is the fruitful cause OF
scrofulous diseases, not to speak Of the
deadly trichina But an eminent ply
sician declares that of all the races in
the world the North American Indians
are the most afflicted with scrofula,
though they eat very little pork.
IAN ant-cancer eaPue has been Or
ganized in Paris, its purpose being to
seek means of relieving humanity from
one of it's most dreadful scourges Eli.
nancinl aid is asked from the public,
and pathologists, clinicians, histolo-
pists, microbiologists, veterinary prac-
titioners and even geographical explor-
ers hre expected to cooperate in the
work of investigation.
DIR. Grana, country physician in
Spain, according to foreign papers, has
discovered a cure for diphtheria which
he claims never fails. The queen regent
of Spain is greatly Interested in the dis
covcry and received DR.. Grana at court a
few weeks ago. The physician has been
invited to explain his remedy to the
Madrid Academy of Medicine.
The Germans are trying the expert
ment of introducing coolie labor into
East Africa- They recently landed 500
Chinese coolies Mt Tanga, whence they
were taken some distance inland to the
cotton and coffee plantations at Lewa
and Damere. This experiment may
prove,a disastrous failure, as it is notat
all ccWtain that the Chinese can thrive
under the unfavorablc conditions they
will meet in equatorial Africa
"A scientific writer says that if peo-
pie on the star Sirius have telescopes
powerful enough to distinguish objects
on this planet, and looking at it now,
they are witnessing the destruction OF
Jerusalem, which took place over 1,s0O
years ago. Of course, the reason OF this
Is that the light which the world re-
fleets, travelling as it does, at the rate
of 1S6, 600 miles per second, would take
over eighteen centuries to reach the
nearest fixed star.
"A boys composition on hens reads
as follows: "Hen's is curious animals.
They don't have no nose, nor no teeth,
nor no ears. They swallow their vittles
whole, and chew it up in their crops in
side of them. The outside of hens is
generally put into pillars and feather
busters. The inside of hen is some
| ~. 1.1 1c,lni inf
buttons, and sich. A hen is very much
smaller than good many other ami
mails, but they will dig up more tomato
plants than anything that amt hen"
According to the Medical Record
yawning is by no means q useless act,
for it often cures catarrh and other af-
fections of the throat in many cases
giving instantaneous relief. 1t produces
a considerable distention of the muscles
of the pharynX, constituting kind of
massage, and under this influence the
cartillaginous portion of the eustachian
tube contracts, expelling into the
pharynx the mucosities there collected.
According to NJ. Naegeli, yawning is
much more efficaclous for affections OF
the tube than the methods of >Valsalva
or Politzer, and is more rational than
the installation of air, which is often
difficult to perform properly
The people of this country probably
do not fully realize the enormous di-
mensions of the losses inflicted upon
American producers of staple articles
by the continuous decline of prices.
Although the number of pounds of cot
ton exported steadily increases, the
value of the cotton exported continually
diminishes. In 1891 we sent to other
: countries 2,S92, no, 703 pounds of cotton,
worth 2S7 million dollars The exports
: in 1892 rose to 1884, 1881 pounds,
while the value fell to 25S million dol
lars. That is to say, we export AZ
million pounds more of cotton and got
for it about 80 million less dollars
Textile Record
The number of volcanic vents still
existing was fixed by Humboldt at 407,
of which 225 have been active within
; the last century; it has since, however,
been estimated that the Indian Archi-
pelago alone contains more than 900.
The most active VOLCANOES known are
! those on the Island of Stromboli, in the
Mediterranean, at Sangar, in Peru, and
Mount Etna. For more than 1000
years the Stromboli mountain has dis
, charged lava constantly; the one in Peru
has been throwing out masses of Gin
2 ders, attended by terrific explosions,
for $50 years, and Etna has record of
! 81 eruptions since the sixth century,
I B. C.
Everybody is Curious.