The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1892-08-19
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

During the present year the area
planted to vines in Uruguay will be
doubled, the present production being
about two million gallons. The total
consumption of wine is about twenty
million gallons, all of which Uruguay
hopes to produce within decade.
Prof. Buchner, of Darmstadt, states
that in the case of some old women a
complete regeneration occurs when
they have reached an advanced age, and
he instances two the Marquise de Mira
beau and Margaret Nerdur, who re-
newed their youth, one at sixty-tive the
other at eighty years of age.
"A table made of Nile mud which
has arrived at the British museum, con-
tains in cuneiform impressions the mar
riage proposal of Pharoah for the
hand of a daughter of the king of Baby
lon. 1t was written about 1900 years
before Christ
Fifteen thousand women typewriters
are employed in small region in the
city of New York between Worth street
and the Battery, where many of the
large wholesale houses are situated. One
typewriting machine company finds
employment through one Office for two
hundred and fifty women a month; and
through its various offices, for ten thou
sand women year.
The New York steam company are
planning to carry coal from the Penn
sylvania mines to New York city in
large pipes 1t is to be ground, mixed
with water and pumped into the pipes
1t is estimated that it will travel five
miles an hour, cost less than by rail-
and do away with the slate iron
pyrites, sulphur and other impurities
-Silversmiths now counsel their pa
irons to keep fine table silver in Canton
flannel rather than in wool. The eX-
PLANTATION is that the wooden fiannels
hitherto commonly employed for this
purpose are treated, in the course of
their production, with sulphur, and
enough of the latter clings to the fan
mel to tarnish the metal when it is kept
in flannel bags.
The French vintage of 1891 WAS
larger than for seven years past,
amounting to 663, 900, 900 gallons from
1850, 900 acres, an average Weld of 1872
gallons per acre. In 1890 the yield was
500, 900, 900 gallons from 4541 900 acres,
giving an average of but 1873 gallons
per acre. The value of the 1891 vintage
is however, A,00O0O0 less than that of
1890, indicating an inferior quality of
wine for the later year.
The Canadian railway statistics for
the year 1891, which have Just been pre-
scented parliament show total mile
age in operation of IA, 209, an increase
of 753 miles over the previous year. The
amount of government bonuses paid
was Sl47, 1875, 432; government loans
paid, 5000, 013, 141; government subscrip-
tions to shares paid, $500, 900; municipal
aid paid, S13, 792, 500; earnings, s4s, 1922
900: working expenses, S34, $50, $50; net
earnings, S13, 231 GAO
If a man weighing 16s pounds were
to be transferred to the moon, the
weight of his body measured, at least,
by the attraction which the moon
would exercise upon it, would be re-
duced to about twenty-eight pounds.
If his muscles and his frame remained
the same. it would seem as if he would
be able to jump over a wall twelve feet
high on the small globe without any
greaterexertion that would be required
to clear wall two feet high on the
earth.
The first sunshine recorder was the
invention of Mr.. John c. Campbell, of
Islay, and consisted of hemispherical
bowl, in which spherical glass ball
stood on low pedestal. As the sun
passed across the sky, its rays. concen-
trated by the ball, burned groove in
the side of the bowl. With this instru-
ment the amount of sunshine during
six months was roughly recorded, and
the character of individual months was
fairly shown, but the grooves of two
successive days could not be distin-
guished from each other, the change in
the suns declination being very slight.
Slips of cardboard were afterwards sub
stituted for the wooden bowl; and in
the present form of apparatus, devised
by Sir G.. G. Stokes, according to the
Scottish Geographical Magazine, three
brass grooves, concentric with the spheY-
zeal lens and adjusted for the latitude,
hold the cards for summer, winter and
the equinoxes respectively. The cards
are changed daily at sunset.-Scienca