The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-08-26
sC,ENCs AND INDUSTRY.

lin 1880 Kansas had wheat acreage
Of less than 100000 acres. This year
she is said to have 4,O00,O00.
The florists of the country report
that the investment of capital in their
business amounts to s40,O00,000, and
that their sales of plants and cut flowers
during the year exceeded 500, 5000
The California Academy of Sciences
has become the possessor OF an un.
usually sound skeleton of rhachin-
neetcs glnucus, or California gray whale.
1t is forty-five feet in length and has
twenty-six ribs, seven on the curve, and
two great scapue, resembling broad.
axes. The jaws are nine feet in length.
New York City is going to build the
biggest dam in the world in the town
of Cortland. 1t will join two hills
nearly 1000 feet apart Back Of 1t will
be monster reservoir, where 44,0O0,'
900, 900 gallons of water will be stored.
The city will then be without fear of a
water famine for fifty years to come,
even In the dryest summer.
The present population OF the globe
is supposed to be about 1,467, 900. 900,
and 1t is estimated that tho maximum
of inhabitants that can be sustained on
tho entire land surface of the earth Is
5000, ,OOO, 900, and that this figure will
be reached A. ID. cora, or IN about ono
hundred and eighty years ut the present
ratio of increase, which Is per cent
per decade
The railway mileage of Canndn ha:
about doubled during the past ter
years. In 1881 there were 1850 miles
in 1891. Ia, 900 miles The paid-up capi
tai Is put down at $40, ,0a2,7bs including
S147, 105, ,4s2 of government bonuses
s21 ,2O1, ,3l4 Of government loans, $780,
900 government subscriptions to shares
and sl3, 702, 500 of municipal aid. Tht
earnings last year were s4S, 10a, ,090 ant
the expenses $4,000, 449. - Toronto
Globe
"A mosquitoes bill is an elaborat,
contrivance, and consists Of two SHARP
saws and lance inclosed in q sheath
VIII ich is also employed rs pump. Tht
saws are bony, but flexible, and thu
teeth are near the end, which is pointed
The lance is perhaps the most perfec
instrument known in the world of mi
mute things. 1t is first thrust into tn
flesh, and the opening is enlarged b.
tho saws, which play beside it until thu
sheath can be inserted. The saving Il
what causes irritation when mosquit,
Is biting.
kansas is becoming one Of th'
greatest salt centers in the world. Tn,
Lyons Salt Company have q shaft owe
1000 feet deep and tho salt deposit ha,
depth Of 265 feet There is now ar
underground city with streets cut IL
pure salt 1t cost over 100000 to sinl
the shaft, and the machinery is said t.
cost another hundred thousand. Th
salt as it is mined is almost absolutel,
pure, and it is claimed that this on
mine could supply the whole land TO
| centuries
PROF. Mosso, of Turin, has demon
strated the Importance Of keeping tn
surface and extremities Of the bod
warm during brain work by clearl
proving that where the brain Is activ
much more blood is sent to it from tn
peripheral parts of the body. Pro-
Mosso has also found that the circula
ton of the blood in the brain Is subjec
to fluctuations which are apparentl
not dependent on physical a,tivity
Fatigue caused by brain work octs as
poison, which affects all the organ
especially the muscular system. TT
blood of dogs fatigued by long racin
also acts as q poison. and when iniccte