Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1892-12-22
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

OF skins were imported into England.
OF Australian opossum there were s,25k
900; of muskrat, =, 395, ,OO); skunk, 5j4, 0o9;
raccoen, $40, 100; fur seals, 195 7o0 bear,
II, 700; beaver, 1l,6OO; cAinchilla, 1,T0o,
and otter, 1900,
1t appears that colorel or dark
pigment in the olfactory regions is
essential to perfect smell In eases
where animals are pure white they ara
usually otally 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 snlll, There is
one factory making nearly $1,000 tons of
supcrphosphate annunlly, and about
10000 pounds of bono 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, 000 feet of dressed
timber valued at s33j,0o1, and over
80, 900, 900 feet of undresscd valued at
81, 700, 900, besides other kinls
The earth reaches that point in its
orbit nearest the san about the 1st of
January, and the point farthest from
the sun about the 1st of July. We are
3. 900, 900 miles nearer the sun on the lst
of January than on the lst 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 Am,ghi-
no in the tertiary strata of Patagonia
This will be of interest from the fact
that no marsup,als except opos5ums
occur outside of Australasia. N Y.
Independent
An improvement in the prcpara
tion of lubricants is ii soap, formed by
treating wool grease with alkaline lyc.
This is dissolved in water and filtered,
and to this solution another of alum is
added, forming "a brown precipitatc.
From this, when dry lubricating oils
of any viscosity may be produced by
simply dissolving it in fluid mineral oil.
But one species of venomou bird is
known to the student of pathological
oddities, the Rpir NDoob or "bird OF
DEATH feathered paradox of New
Guinea. Persons bitten by the creature
arc seized by maddening pains which
rapidly extend to every part Of the
body Loss of sight commissions AMI
lockjaw are the other symptoms, which
follow in rapid succession.
Fatigue caused by brain work acts
as Il poison which affects all the organs,
especially the muscular system. The
blood of dogs fatigucd by long racing
also acts as u poison, and when injected
into other dogs makes them exhibit all
the symptoms of fatigue Sense OF fa-
tigue seems to be due to the products
of the nerve cells rather than to de-
ticiency of proper substance.
M. Balland has communicated to
the Academy of S.iences 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 50 easily attacked as
iron, copper, lead, zinc o. tin by air,
water wine, beer coffee, milk, oil,
butter gas, urine or saliva, Vinegar
and salt attack it, but not to such an
extent as to render its use undesirable.
Electrical Age
The combined Australasian colo
MES 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 aud
honey products is S5,0)0,0Oo, With total
products, in 1891, of G9,0)o,O0) pounds
of butter and 19,000,0)O pounds of
cheese, they imported 1852, 900 pounds of
butter and 1,3i9, 600 pounds of cheese
The weaker teas of China arc 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 b2en done to en-
courage Ceylon tea-growing and make a
market for the product in Great Britain