The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1892-06-02
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY,


India within the past ten years. and
now excellent brands of her choice
tobaccos are known throughout the
worlds markets. except in the lnitcd
| States.
Mr.. G. lsonner professor of botany
at the Paris Sorbonnc, disputes the
| prevalent notion that the mistlctoc is
! injurious to the apple or other tree on
which 1t grows lie maintains not only
that this is not the case. hut that il is
actually beneficial to its host.
/ A railway beginning at Belize and
extending to the State of Guatemala. at
or near the town of Pctcn, is under
contract. 1t will open up extensive
areas of lands of the most fertile de-
scription and will afford access to the
mineral regions OF British Honduras.
which are now beyond the reach of
! transportation. 4s,,s.. .-.. -
Mr.. Boys. who has recently made
some valuable experiments in photo
| graphing bullets during their flight
from gun, infers that tho protectile
must have received about 3 per cent of
Its velocity after leaving the muzzlc. at
which point the turning effort of the
rifle must have necessarily ceased.
The foot of a horse is one of the
most ingenious and unexampcd pieces
OF mechanism in the whole range nfani-
nal structure. The outside hoof is
made up of q series of thin. vcrticle
laminn of horn. about five hundred in
nu,nhcr. Into this are fitted about five
| hundred more thin laminn. which be.
long to the coffin bone, both sets being
elastic and adhcrent.
-Canada exports annually, 1000
! tons and the l'n:tru Htates %, 900 tons
of cheese, equal in quality to the Cru
lcrc cheese of France. This. together
! with the Swiss cheese. compctcs with
that ot French make to such an extent
As to create suffering among French
cheese makers who wish legislation
for putting stop to, or limiting the
profits of merchant and middlcman,
Now that rance culture has begun
seriously to engage the attention of
, nlau,cro II, the tropics, it is interesting
| TO learn "n the authority of foreign
journal that ranec fiber. under great
hydraulic pressure. may be made to as
sumo the compactncss of steel. IL is
asserted that when 50 prepared it will
be particularly scrviccnhlc for steam
| pipe, a. II will not be subject to- contrac-
tion or expansion and also will not rust
in 1912 n Russian farmer conceived
| the idea of extracting oil from the sun
flower. His schemes We're considered
most visionary. but he perscvcred. until
now the industry is one of enormous
proportions, there he;ue tOO.O00 acres
under cultivation in Russia There are
two kinds: one with seeds that are
crushed for oil, and II second species
which |. consumed by the people in the
| same way that peanuts are in this coun-
| try.
in consequence of the enormous in
itial velocity of the bullet in the new
Mannlichcr rifle and the resulting fric-
tion and wear on the barrel. ii has be-
come necessary to devise some method
preventing both of these evils The
manager of the government laboratory
at Thup Switzerland. has consequently
devised Il method of inclosing th., lcadcn
bullet in n thin meta l!io o0Nlltng. while
over this ho pl;,c,s IL wrapper, specially
. prrpulcd oieaginous paper. which re-
duceS the wear of the rifle barrel to a
minimum, without interfering with ne
course of the bullet,
The April number of Natural Sci
ence contains an interesting note upon
the australian mudtiSh, about which
less is known than akDut the African
mudfish. The latter may he seen at
present in the reptile house at the Xoo
and is one of the most interesting Great
urcs on view there. Both these fishes
declined some ages ago to move with
the times, and have remained. in consc-
qucncc. about half way between u fish
and amphihian. Some of the African
mudhshcS when they arrived ut the loo
We're inolosed in II leathcry cocoon.
This Il secrctcd by the animal when the
rivers in which it lives are dried up by
the sun, Securely hidden away in this
case, the protopterus ceases to breathe
like fish, and uses its lungs: when the
rains dissolve the baked mud in which
it is embedded it returns to the tiShlillc
existence.
The largest paper and pulp making
plant in the world Is to he built on the
Niagara tunnel. The Niagara Falls
Paper Company will be the style of the
owners, The company has signed n
lease for 3,0OO-horSc power to be fur
nished next October. The lease extends
to the year 1896. As the tunnel will he
completed by July. the power will be
ready for them then. The plant will
consist of twenty large buildings, and
will occupy eleven acres of ground
The cost will he about 81 a,OGO, 900. This
company has in contemplation the use
of underground chambers for grinding
purposes. The wheel pit will be l4O
feet deep and II feet by 40 feet wide.
1t will be connected with the great tun-
mel by subway 800 feet long, 10 feet
high and IL feet widc.-Illustrated
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