The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-08-10
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

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era' years ago was pronounced useless
after creating much newspaper contro-
versy, has very valuable properties for
the cure of certain diseases which here
tofore have been considered incura BILE.
Snoring isn't confined to sleep; per-
sons with some forms of nasal catarrh
snore continually. But healthy man
SHORES, as a rule, only when asleep, be-
cause then he does not control himself
He gets into some position with his
mouth open and inhales through his
mouth. If the mouth We're shut he
wouldn't Snore.
DR.. Koeppen, in his Annals OF Ma
rine Hydrogra and Meteorology, :"
published by the Observatory of Ham
burg. details the effects upon the waves
of the sea of different sorts of oil, and
comes to the conclusion that soap pro-
duces still far superior effects. He rec
ommends the use of black soap dis
solved in 1000 times its weight of
water
Chemists now turn scrap iron into
ink. old bones into lucifer matches, the
shavings of the blacksmith shop into
Prussian blue, fusel oil into oil of APP
plies and pears, the DRAWINGS of cow
houses into fashionable perfumery, beg
CARS rags into new pilot coats cesspool
filth into ammonia and tar waste into
aniline dyes and saccharine.
-Corals increase by eggs, spontane-
Gus ldivision and termination. The
rate of growth has not been fully de-
termined. Prof. Agassiz indicates the
growth of reefs at Key Westat the rate
of six inches in one hundred years. and
adds that if we doubled that amount it
would require 1000 years to form the
reefs in that place, and hundreds of
thousand years for the growth of Flor
ida.
AT the speed of an electric current,
which is nearly the same as that of
light, 10000 miles per second-sup-
pose a message to be sent at this speed
from a point on the earth's surface. it
would go seven times around the earth
in one second. In eight minutes a
message would get to the sun. but to
reach Alpha Centauri, the nearest OF
all the stars, it would take three years
People who are interested in know
ing what the temperature of their feet
was after travelling over street car
tracks and other places where salt was
used to melt the snow during the past
winter should remember that a mix
ture of two parts of pounded ice and
one of common salt will reduce the
temperature of a body surrounded by
it from 80 degrees to zero.
Prof. II. NJ. Ward states that there
are probably more than 800 species OF
oaks (Quercus), of which the majority
belong to North America. Europe,
China, Japan and other parts of Asia.
There are none in Africa south of the
Mediterranean region, nor in South
America or Australia. Some remark.
able species are found in the Hima-
layas, and many in the Malayan archi-
pelago.
An important industry has arisen
in France, the selling of milk frozen
solid in cans Il has been discovered
that milk can be kept perfectly fresh
in IA frozen condition for more than a
month. 1t is frozen by means of an or
binary ice-making machine, and des-
patched by road, rail or steamer to its
destination. The customer who pur-
chases the frozen milk has simply to
thaw it when it is required for use.
Nicaragua, which is attracting so
much attention just now, has popu-
lation of about 100000, and is one of
the richest countries in the world in
natural resources. Besides valua BILE
mines of gold, silver. copper and quick
silver, it produces all kinds of tropical
fruits, as well as cedar. indigo, coffee
and sugar. Its sugar cane grows to
enormous proportions and often attains
such size that the plantations resemble
groves of trees.-Aberdeen Is. d.
News.
The area planted in cotton the
present year is estimated at 49, 701 .3S5
acres, an increase over last year of 7.20
per cent. and about the same as in 1887,
also showing very little difference from
1883. The total acreage for 1892 was
Is, 3G2 900; in 1891 it was 20. SOS. 900; in
1890, 20,910. 900; in 1889. 80, 173, 600: in
1SsS, 10, 7S1 900; and in 1887, 10, 1928, 900.
The average yield has varied from 1872
pounds of lint cotton to the acre to BOB
pounds, the greatest yield being in
1912, when the crop was 9,039, 600
bales.-Memphis Appeal-Avalanche