The Van Buren press., 1893-09-23
soIENoE AND INDUSTRY.

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year from psoum a'o"s =. 40. soo ~. a.. Z.
porSs OF lsst year ~ote 1900 son' ~
excess OF ssnose Oh ING Iros'ous yo'
Two wave motor pumps nsve ooen
~ operation some tame OUT neA. sno
Clih house, ppt Tar if9m sep sncisco'
that have raised i,ooo,vos gstions PEI
day Into = reservoir e. an ,eleys1lon Z.
100 rect. The racine Lumpermap says.
sTnis appears 20 DC the pes. teeu.S
that we know as having oeen ooea,neu
! from tho various wave motors, eha'
haye been tried derang the past s'A vi
seven years. -
Winged ants always ny In COM
panies, sometimcs very numerous
When Col Augusfus FRAZIER ON octo.
Der 9, 1918, was watching the battle On
the Pyrenees from the mountain called
Pena de Aya ne and his omcers were
suddenly surrounded by such a cloud
Of ants that their view OF the battle
was cut of and they were compelled to
seek another station.
The reimposition Of the Mexican
duty on corn, and the satisfactory crop
in Mexico, which Ia the cause OF 1t,
means good deal TO Kansas and Texas
and Missouri which have been doing a
good business feeding the republic
south Of ma The corn exports from
this country to Mexico. without meal,
were as follows, IL bushels: 1899, 061,-
458; 1901, 6l5, SS2; 1892, 754,54S; 1903
(eleven months), 1854, 166.-N. Y. Jour
nal Of Commerce. ''.s
Goal first came into use in England
in 1884. During the last ten years there
were produced 11,Os6, DOC, 900 tons, and
coal delds have been discovered in
every country in the world. 1t is es-
timated that the coal fields now known
will supply the constantly increasing
demsnd for 1000 years, which will give
the world time to look round and either
discover more or find proper substi-
tute.
Tho state farm ut Roanoke, N. O..
employs more than 800 convicts, who
have under cultivation about 5000
acres. There will be an enormous crop
this season. The cornfield contains
about 1000 acres, and will yield about
1Oo, 900 bushels; the cotton crop will be
about 1000 bales. More than 5000
bushels of wheat have been harvested,
and the pea crop will amount TO about
10000 bushels
DIR. Bowdler Sharpe suggested in a
recent lecture on the geographical dis
tribution of birds before the Royal
Institution Of Lnndon that there was
nRce great continent with its center
ct the south Pole, now submerged
under 1000 fathoms Of ocean. It en-
braced, he said. South America, NADIA
gascar, Mauritius, New Zealand and
Australia; and thus he explained the
existence Of the cognate struthious
birds that now exist. or once existed,
in those countries
Chemists turn scrap iron into ink,
old bones into lucifer matches, the
shavings Of the blacksmith shop into
Prussian blue, fusel oil into oil Of
apples and pears, the DRAWINGS Of COW
houses into fashionable pcrfumery,
beggars' rags into new pilot coats, cess
pool filth into ammonia, and tar waste
into aniline dyes and sacchsrine In
Paris they first utilize rats to clear the
flesh from the bones Of carcasses, then
kill the rats, use up their fur for trim
mings. their skin for gloves, their thigh
bones for toothpioks, and their tendons
and bones for gelatine wrappers
| 1t is familiar fact that persons
born deaf are usually mute not from
any congsnital defect In the organs oil
speech, but from the fact that, never
having heard others speak, they cannot
initiate Articulate utterance II Isl prob
ably true, too, that the source Of SOME
current errors OF speech among those
who are not esteemed deaf lies in a
defect OF hearing. Many persons who
habitually tack on the TT" sound to
words edding In Nv" say that they are
unable to distinguish, for example, be-
tween Flaw" and "lor." 1919
/ Masks are of very ancient origin.
In tomb 5000 years old, at Mycen@,
DIR. Schliemann found two bodies with
faces covered by masks OF gold. One OF
the masks represented the head Of q
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