The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-04-08
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.
The lungs will contain about one
gallon OF air at their usual degree OF in
flatlon. We breathe on an average
1,200 times per hour, inhale GOO gallons
OF air, or "a, 900 per day. The aggre-
gate surface of the air cells of the lungs
exceeds 20, 900 square inches, an area
very nearly equal to the floor of room
12 feet square.
France is endeavoring to ameliorate
the breed of sheep in Algeria, thus
opening up constant supply Of NUT
ton for the Paris market The natives
Of Algeria own about 5000, 900 sheep
and the French colouy $500, 900. The
government hopes by the establishment
of studs to raise first-class quality oi
mutton.
MN. Henriot and Richet have dis
covered q new anesthetic derived from
chloral and glucose, which they call
chloralose. Its properties are analo-
gous to those of morphine, but It APP
pears to be less dangerous. Expert
ment shows that it can be administered
in doses of gramme without disturb
ing the digestion of the brain. Half
grain induces calm, profound sleep.
Female fish of all species are con-
siderably more numerous than males,
with two single exceptions land these
not certain), the "angler" and the cat
fish. Among that class of fishes known
to experts as flat fishes" the propor-
tion of females to males is as three to
one in the founder and us twelve to
one In the dab" Among the "round
fishes" the proportion is from three to
two in the cod to nine to two in the
common gurnard.
The manufacture of gossamer cloth
ing, and also OF rubber goods in gen.
eral, is, it appears, to be carried on by
means of a new and improved process.
The method proposed is for the COM
pounding of rubber and the reproduc-
tion of the colors in figures, checks and
plaids, by printing these on a rubber
surface on gossamer garments, giving
to the latter the appearance of the most
popular patterns of "mackintoshes,
and at very reasonable cost.
The total area under wheat in New
South Wales this season is $40, 900 acres,
as compared with 403, 900 acres a year
ago The harvest estimate is placed at
7,176, 600 bushels, a larger quantity than
ever grown in the colony, the nearest
approach to it being 6,5T0, 900 bushels
in the 1SS0-9O season. The require
ments of New South Wales are 1885,
900 bushels thus leaving a small guam
tity to be attributable to the system of
protection now adopted in the colony,
which levies custom duties upon wheat
imported from other colonies.
The experiment of the eight-hour
day, or rather of making forty-eight
hours weeks work, is now being
tried in one of the largest iron works
in England, the Stafford works at Sal
ford, which is q suburb of Manchester.
The working hours at these works have
heretofore been fifty-three per week,
and the reduction is made on an under
standing with the men that the output
of the works shall not be diminished by
this shortening of the hours. The men
are to be punctual and energetic, and
to save the owners from loss because of
this shortening of hours, by greater in
dustry. There is to be no reduction of
wages, and if the end of year finds
the experiment successful the forty
week will be the permanent
Prof. Garner, who is in Africa in
quiring and experimenting concerning
speech, writes to the Balloon
society that he has already gathered
much valuable data and is making
of his real work He wrote
from Libreville, French Congo, and
said he had access there to fine young
and had promise OF two
young gorillas The belief that the
talk is very general among
the natives and residents of the in
terror. He has also gathered much
quaint folk lore concerning the apes.
He was going on trip up the Gaboon
river, and then to Chanon, town in
the bush about three hours journey
from Libreville, on the south side of the
river. His contemplated route thence
is overland via Cape Lopez to the Sette
Come and Angovie, returning to Ango-
vie river and up that valley overland to
the Middle Congo Basin, down the
north side of that river To the coest