The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1892-10-27
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

Catholics in this country amounted TO
50, $50, 75s, which in 1890 had increased
to ais, 3S1, $40. The Methodists hold
the largest total viz, s13o,01s,o7o.
while the Episcopalians are the richest
In proportion to their mem bership.
The anti-pork 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
stefan 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.
An anti-cancer eague has been Or
ganized in Paris, its purpose being to
seek means of relieving humanity from
one of it's most dreadful scourges. FL
nancial aid is asked from the public,
and pathologists clinicians, histolo-
gists, microbiologists, veterinary prac-
titioners and even geographical explor-
ers are expected to cooperate in the
work of investigation.
DR. Grana, a 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
covery and received DIR. 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 at Tanga, whence they
were taken some distance inland to the
cotton and coffee plantations at Lewa
and Damere. This experiment may
prove disastrous failure, as it is not at
all certain that the Chinese can thrive
under the unfavorable 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 1900
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 1876, 900 miles per second, would take
over eighteen centuries to reach the
nearest fixed star.
"A boys composition on hens reads
as follows: Hens 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 a hen is some
times filled up with marbles and shirt
buttons, and SIGH. A hen is very much
smaller than a good many other ami
mails, but they will dig up more tomat to
plants than anything that amt hen"
According to the Medical Record
yawning is by no means a useless act,
for 1t often cures catarrh and other al
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 mucosties there collected.
According to M. Naegeli, yawning is
much more eff1caclous 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.
mansions 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, ITO, 7O3 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 40
million pounds more Of cotton and got
for it about 30 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 Stronboli, in the
| Mediterranean, at Sanger, 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
ders, attended by terrific explosions,
for $50 years, and Etna has a record of
81 eruptions since the sixth century,
B. c.