The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-12-10
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

OClLlNSE AFNO iINDO0 M
---of the 1870 corn-canning factories in
Maine, AZ report pack this fall Of l0,-
46l ,9TT cans in most cases considerably
more than last year. The total pack
this year cannot be very far from 2O,-
900, 900 cans
The National Library in Washing
ton contains 700 600 bound volumes and
200, 600 pamphlets The yearly increase
is from $1,000 To 10000 volumes. and the
now building, which will be completed
in four years, is to be capable of hold
ing 1000, 600 books
The largest specimen Of extinct ami
NAL ever found in the world was the
skeleton of n Dinosaurian reptile dis
covered in the Bad Lands in 1882. The
weight of the skull alone was G94
pounds and of the whole skeleton 300
pounds IT is now in the rooms of the
Academy of Natural Science, Philadel-
phia.
Physicians are now able to wash ont
the system through the natural chan
nels of circulation by means of injected
fluid, and DIR. Max Hilderband, of San
Francisco, states that it is possible to
infuse into the veins without danger to
the animal, an amount equal to four
times the normal quantity of blood.
"A San Francisco firm is about to
attempt the revival of whaling in the
Antarctic ocean, which has not been
carried on for as many as twenty-five
years A quarter of a century ago the
catches of sperm and right whales used
to be excellent there, and many of the
whalers are now of the opinion that the
southern seas will again afford u profit
able field for operations.
1t is generally admitted in the
Australian colonies that agriculture
has hardly passed the tentative stage
Farmers have relied upon nature for
bountiful crops, without bestowing
much care or cultivation upon them,
using improved implements or studying
scientific farming. Agricultural col
leges and model farms are now being
established, and travelling lecturers are
being sent to agricultural ccnters.
The agricultural development OF
the Argentine Republic has been very
much retarded by its financial troubles.
The number of animals imported for
breeding purposes declined by nearly
10000 head within a year, from 1889 to
1890, the imports of wire fencing fell off
from $4,000 to 10, 100 tons and of plows
from 80, 500 to 20, 800. In the same time
the exports of wool fell off by 81, 600, 900
pounds aud of sheep skins by 21, 600, 900
pounds.
DR.. S. p. Chandler, Of Cambridge,
6lgPnvhvp1 In -f int l,o+ of
being stationary, the earth's pole moves
through circle with a radius of 45 feet
during period Of 427 days. This circle
is not an exact one, however, but is
subject TO a perturbation of about five
feet He has lately discovered that the
pole has another motion during years
time through circle with a diameter
of 10 feet.
Within historical times the South.
ern hemisphere has never been the
seat of empire The Incas and the
Javanese were the only nations which
tlourished there OF the 1850, 900, 600
human beings which now inha6it the
earth, not more than 60, ,OO), 600 have
their home to the south of the equator
The Northern hemisphere is the seat of
iNlAON lCttSts SlNlllLiJIOl uLtt power. IL
is the commercial hemisphere.
Sir Archibald Geillic reviewed in a
recent address the present state of
opinion and evidence concerning the
age of the globe While he regarded
the demands OF the earlier geologists
for unlimited time for the formation of
the earth's strata as extravaganza he
was equally of the opinion that the
which the physicists seek to
impose on the duration of the processes
need to be revised. The rate of degra-
dation of the land under atmospheric
influences is capable of measurement,
and from this it is concluded that the
geological deposits, if they were all
made at the most rapid rate witnessed,
would require 73, 900, 600 years; if at the
slowest rate G9O 600, 600 years, for their
accumulation.