Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-08-12
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.


There are only two works in Austria
making cast or rolled-plate glass.
1t is proposed attempting to stamp out
tuberculosis in cattle in Denmark by
vaccination.
A gas engine has been made in Eng
land that runs at the rate Of $40 revolu-
tions minute.
The results obtained from using sul-
phate of copper dressing to prevent the
growth of the fungus on potatoes are
decidedly satisfactory.
The more rapidly an animal is fattened
the less quantity of food is necessary to
sustain its vitality, so that liberal OF
abundant feeding is the most econom-
ioal.
The oil fuel used in coppcr-s smelling
works at Kcdabeg in the Caucasus is
pumped to an elevation of 32S feet
through fifteen miles of four-inch steel
pipe.
Above the length of nineteen or twen-
ty feet, snakes in the PHILIPPINE Islands
increase greatly in bulk for every foot of
length, so that a snake nineteen feet long
looks small beside one twenty-five feet
long.
In order to keep sea porgies through
the ummer, the fishermen of Rhode
Island have nets so arranged that the
passing schools are led up into salt water
ponds and the channels connecting with
the ocean are closed.
In one Of the Comstock mines new
water.wheel is to be placed which is to
run 1850 revolutions minute, and have
speed at its periphery of 10,S05 feet
per minute. A greater head of water
than has ever before been applied to a
wheel will be used.
Plans are being examined for the con-
struction of u railroad across the main
cham of the Caucasus Mountains. The
line will have alength of 100 miles. and
will present great engineering difficulties.
There are to be two tunnels, one four
and third and the other six and three
quarters miles long.
Pear growers are complaining OF the
depredations of a small suctoral insect,
somewhat resembling in size aud in its
transparent, steep-sloping wings the typ
ical plant louse, but it is readily dis
tinguished from that in its being a
jumping insect, whence it has received
the name Psyla, oeaning in Greek a
flee.
The mysterious subject of hypnotic
influence has been agitating society iu
Calcutta, India. A young Government
clerk made several attempts recently to
get married to the girl OF his choice. but
each time he was mysteriously overcome
at the altar aud thrown into trance Of
stupor. He has made no less than six
attempts, failing each time.
Paper manufacture IL one of the lead.
ing industries of Corea. Besides its use
for writing paper, it is employed in a
great diversity of ways, such as string,
and in the making of lanterns, hats,
shoe soles, coats aud boxes. 1t is made
from the bush of the mulberry order,
which is indigenous, growing in many
parts of the island, but thriving best in
the moist, warm climate of the South.
In walking to the Central Park, New
York City, one day a Boston naturalist
was surprised by some of the trees,
shrubs and flowers ne saw there. lie
says he found even sugar naples, Norway
naples aud swamp naples. lie found
moss pinks, Asiatic magnolias, lilacs,
the forsythia, the cornclian cherry, and
other charming things that are familiar
to New Workers who stroll through the
park.
Who would think that science could
devise an apparatus or instrument for
counting the number OF dust notes that
dance in II bar of sunlight No one
would imagine that such an unheard of
feat could be carried out with any de-
gree OF accuracy, but, il we are to believe
official reports, that aud much more has
recently been accomplished by the mi
croseopists. At the Ben Nevis Observa-
tory, Scotland. an attempt has been made
to determine the relative purity OF the
atmosphere.