The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1892-10-07
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

In 1899 Kansas had a wheat acreage
Of less than 1000, 900 acres. This year
she is said to have 1900, 900.
The florists of the country report
that the investment of capital in their
business amounts to 100000, 900, and
that their sales of plants and cut flowers
during the year exceeded $40, 900, O0O
The California Academy of Sciences
has become the possessor of an un-
usually sound skeleton of a rhachia-
neetes glaucus, or California gray whale.
1t is forty-five feet in length and has
twenty-siy ribs, seven on the curve, and
two great scapue, resembling broad
axes. The jaws are nine feet in length.
New York City is going to build the
biggest dam in the world in the town
of Cortland. 1t will join two hills
nearly 1000 feet apart. Back of it will
be IA monster reservoir where $4,000.
900, 900 gallons of water will be stored.
The city will then be without fear of a
water famine for fifty years to come,
even in the dryest summer.
The present population of the globe
is supposed to be about 1,467, 600, 900.
and it is estimated that the maximum
of inhabitants that can be sustained on
the entire land surface of the earth is
1904, 100000 and that this figure will
be reached A. d. 2012, or in about one
hundred and eighty years at the present
ratio of increase, which is s per cent.
per decade.
The railway mileage of Canada has
about doubled during the past ten
years. In 1881 there were 1850 miles,
in 1891, 14,0O9 miles The paid-up CAPT
tai is put down at SO, 622, 1853, including
$147, 1854 of government bonuses.
$el, 20l,3l4 of government loans, $780,
900 government subscriptions to shares
and SIS, 79@, 500 of municipal aid The
earnings last year were s4s, 192, 900 and
the expenses $4,000, 449. - Toronto
Globe.
A mosquitoes bill is an elaborate
continuance, and consists of two sharp
saws and u lance inclosed in a sheath,
VIII ich is also employed as pump. The
saws are bony, but flexible, and the
teeth are near the end, which is pointed.
The lance is perhaps the most perfect
instrument known in the world of mi
mute things. 1t is first thrust into the
flesh, and the opening is enlarged by
the saws, which play beside it until the
sheath can be inserted. The saving is
what causes irritation when MOSQUITO
is biting.
Kansas is becoming one of the
greatest salt centers in the world. The
Lyons Salt Company have shaft over
1000 feet deep and the salt deposit has
a depth of 265 feet. There is now an
underground city with streets cut in
pure salt, 1t cost over 500, 600 to sink
the shaft, and the machinery is said to
cost another hundred thousand. The
salt as it is mined is almost absolutely
pure, and it is claimed that this one
mine could supply the whole land for
centuries
Prof. Mosso, of Turin, has demon
strated the Importance of keeping the
surface and eXtremities of the body
warm during brain work by clearly
proving that where the brain is active
much more blood is sent to it from the
peripheral parts of the body. Prof
Mosso has also found that the circula-
ton of the blood in the brain is subject
to fluctuations which are apparently
not dependent on physical activity.
Fatigue caused by brain work acts 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
fatigue seems to be due to the products
of the nerve cells rather than to the
deficiency of proper substance. Illus
trated American.