The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-12-03
SCIENCE ANn INDUSTRY.

During the last year nearly o, 900, 900
of skins were imported into England.
Of Australian opossum there were 2, 1884,
O0C; of muslxrat, 1896, 900; slsunlx, 554, 900;
raccoon, $40, 100; fur seals, 125, 700; bear,
1870 beaver, 1,6O0; chinchilla, 7,7OO,
and otter, 1900
1t appears that a colored or dark
pigment in the olfactory regions Is
essential TO perfect smell In cases
where animals are pure white they are
usually totally devoid of both smell and
taste; and some, the white cat for in
stance, are almost invariably deaf.
The use of commercial fertilizers
in japan is OF comparatively recent
date, owing to their cost. the profits of
Japanese farmers being small There is
one factory making nearly $1,000 tons Of
superphosphate, annually, and about
100000 pounds of bone are imported
from Corea.
Notwithstanding the great re-
sources of New South Wales as timber
growing country, the importation of
wood is very considerable, amounting
in 1890 to nearly 1000, 600 feet of dressed
timber valued at 1926, 900, and over
lctb Ol uuuTGSSGu db
81, 700, 900, besides other kinds
The earth rea ches that point in it's
orbit nearest the sun about the 1st of
January, and the point farthest from
the sun about the 1st of July. We are
8, 200, 900 miles nearer the sun on the 1st
of January than on the 1st of July,
hence the southern hemisphere is
warmer than the northern.
The remains of carnivorous mar
supial mammals closely allied to the
existing couched wolf, or Thylacine, of
Tasmania, have been made by Ameghi-
no in the tertiary strata of Patagonia
This will be of interest from the fact
that no marsupials except opossums
occur outside of Australasia. N. Y.
Independent.
An improvement in the prepara
ton of lubricants is soap, formed by
treating wool grease with alkaline lye.
This is dissolved in water and filtered,
and to this solution another of alum is
added, forming a brown precipitate.
From this, when dry, lubricating oils
of any viscosity may be produced by
simply dissolving it in fluid mineral oil.
But one species of venom Gus bird is
known to the student of ornithological
oddities, the Rpir N'Doob or ''bird of
DEATH" feathered paradox of New
Guinea. Persons bitten by the creature
are seized by maddening pains, which
rapidly extend to every part of the
body. Loss of sight, commissions and
lockjaw are the other symptoms, which
follow in rapid succession.
N,
as a poison which affects all the organs,
especially the muscular system. The
blood of dogs fatigued by long racing
also acts as poison, and when injected
into other dogs makes them exhibit all
the symptoms of fatigue Sense of IA
tigue seems to be due to the products
of the nerve cells rather than to de-
ficiency of proper substance.
M. Balland has communicated to
the Academy of Sciences, Paris, the re-
suits of his Investigations as to the
corrodibility of aluminium, with special
references to its use for domestic cook
ing utensils, etc. He concludes that
this metal is not so easily attacked as
iron, copper, lead, zinc or tin by air,
water, wine, beer, coffee, milk, oil,
DuIISr, gas, URINE OF saliva. lneRdr
and salt attack it, but not to such an
extent as to render it's use undesirable.
Electrical Age,
The combined Australasian colo
nies have 1850, 900 hogs and their i'm
ports of hog products last year were
valued at over $500, 900, almost the whole
of it being in bacon and hams The ag-
gregate value of the poultry, eggs and
honey products is S5, 100000. With total
products in 1891, of $4,000, 900 pounds
of butter and $4,000, 600 pounds of
cheese, they imported 762, 900 pounds of
butter and l. 342, 900 pounds of cheese.
The weaker teas of China are being
displaced by the stronger teas of India
and Ceylon, and within the past five
years, while the import of Ceylon teas
into Great Britain has increased FIVE
fold, the quantity of China tea imports
has diminished about one-half This il
lustrates phase of colonial policy that
is becoming very noteworthy over the
water. Everything has sheen done to en-
courage Ceylon tea-growing and make a
market for the product in Great Britain.