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

SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.
--Germany's average annual produc.
tioB of wine during the past thirteen
years has been 56,OOO,OOO gallons The
area of land under vine cultivation has
varied but little in that time, being
about 100000 acres. A third of the
total product is made in Alsace and
Lorraine.
The milk production of the chic.
European Countries must be estimated
by the millions and millions of gallons
head. Germany heads the list with
3.12T, 800 millions of gallons; next comes
France with 2,225,740 millions of gal.
Ions; England is third with 1,963, 500
millions of gallons.
Northern Delaware will have some
of the best wheat lands in the country.
One farmer in New Castle county re-
reports an average of 80 bushels per
acre upon 100 acres; another reports
an average of 331S bushels per acre,
and another an average of 80 bushels
per acre. A small field, recently in
| asparagus, yielded an average of 80
bushels per acre.
The largest band-sawing machine
in the world has recently been COM
pleted in England and sent to Tasma-
MIA. The machine can saw through a
maximum depth of seventy-five inches,
and the carriage will accommodate
logs fifty feet long and weighing about
fifty tons. 1t is asserted that this saw
cuts even faster than circular saw,
while wasting IS per cent less wood.
1t seems hard to realize that the
lightest whisper must continue its
rounds of existence throughout all
eternity, yet on the belief that such is
the fact is based all modern physics
and very many of the useful adjuncts
of modern civilization. 1t is now real
lied that force, like matter, is inde-
structible, and that where matter is
we must look for force or energy in
clos relation to it.
interesting experiments with rat
tlesnalSe venom are in progress at the
pathological labora tory of Johns Hop
kins university. The captured rattler
is excited to strike at a glass saucer,
into which the poison from its fangs
falls This is then injected in minute
quantities beneath the skin of rabbits,
and as soon as the unsuspecting ami
mails are dead they are dissected to
show the action of the venom.
The age of the late dragon tree of
Orotava was variously estimated at
from 5000 to 10, 600 years. On the low
est estimate it surpassed not only
. Domesday oaks and Soma expresses,
but the Hcdsor yew with its 5000
.. years and Alphonse Karr's baobabs.
of Senegal. Balfour gives the ages, as
ascertained by De Condolle, of the cy-
press as $50 years. the oak 1,50O, the
yew 2,s2O and the baobab as probably
the same as the yew.
"A prominent English physician of
large experience with drunkards, says
; that he can recall hundreds of recover
les among men, but only five among
women. AS an instance of the cunning
5 with w hich female inebriates crafty
5 their appetite for liquor the following
! story is related. Some women in re-
treat asked for curling tongs, very
natural request. Next, they wanted
methylated spirits with which to heat
the irons, and finally they wheedled
hot water, sugar and lemon juice out
y of one of the maids. Out of these
liquids they contrived concoction tc
i 4 satisfy their craving for alcohol.
u Various attempts have been made
to account for the diversity in shape
seen in eggs. A recent study convince.
Il Dr. NicolsSy that the differences may
all be traced to gravity, and he finds
his idea confirmed by all the eggs il
!. the geological collection of the st. Pc
j tersburg university. He supposes thai
n pressure by the sides of the ovary tend.
- to elongate the egg before the she'll hal
= hardened. In birds which keep yer
; teal position while at rest. as do thu
!, u falcon and the owl, the soft egg il
II made short by the action of the weigh
of the body against the ovarian pres
= sure; while in birds that, like the grebe
are nearly always swimming, the egg
u is heightened, because the bird
e weight acts with the compression b,
! the ovary. The egg is made NOR,
l. pointed at one end than at the other il
u birds that, like the guillemot. are fre
d quently changing their position, some
y times swimming and diving, sometime
l. pcrching on the rocks, etc.
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