The Van Buren press., 1893-12-16
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.


worth 81, 100000 year and catches H..
900 fur SEALS 1t exports $4,000. 900
worth of lumber and coal and raises
Is, 600. 900 bushels of wheat.
1T is stated that ordinary bricks
boiled in tar for about twelve hours, or
until they are saturated with 1t, are
increased about 80 per cent in weight,
are much harder than common ones
and unaffected by frost and acids as
we'll as perfectly waterproof. They
form an excellent flooring for work.
shops or storerooms, particularly IN
chemical establishments.
Some very industrious students OF
microscopy, as applied to medical
problems. have been offering pretty
strong evidence that parasites are the
origin of malignant and cancerous
tumors; SO the Pathological society, OF
London, appointed a committee to IN
vestigate the evidence, which commit
tee unanimously reports that, notwith-
standing the labor expended, the point
Is not proved-the parasites are not
demonstrated.
According to the Medical Record,
DR.. A. E. Wright states it to be fact
that total color blindness is very rare;
also, that yellow-blue color blindness is
verv rare. The common form is the
the ereen-red blindness. Most color
blind men can readily distinguish yel-
lows and blues, and the doctor pro-
poses that the red lights should have a
distinctly yellowish tinge, and the green
lights distinctly blush tinge. In this
way the difference between signals
could be readily made out by almost
all the color blind.
Ample food for reflection on the
possibilities of the English (?) Ian
ruage in the production OF compound
words will be found in almost any
chemical journal. We are told that an
eminent chemist when studying para
amidotolueneorthothiosulphonic acid
had changed this thiosulphonic acid
into the corresponding sulphinic acid
On diazotizing the paraamidoorthoto-
luenesulphinic acid, and decomposing
the diazo compound in absolute me-
thylic alcohol, he obtained noncrys-
talizing acid, which he called oxyme-
thyloluenesulphonic acid" - Youths
Journal
The treasury official statement OF
the comparative receipts and expendi-
lures Of the United States, issued No
yember /, shows that for the first four
months OF the current fiscal year the
expenditures have exceeded the receipts
| BY S24 200, 600, or at the rate OF S72, 00O,-
300 year. The receipts are s27, 600, 900
less than for the corresponding four
months of the previous fiscal year, and
the expenditures are nearly $1,000, 900
greater than for the same period
There has been net increase OF s16,-
5O4, 764 in the circulation since the 1st
If October, and the circulation per cap
ia is now $3.50.
New York grows 100000 tons OF
hay and raises 80, 900, 900 bushels of po-
tatoes. The internal trade OF New
York exceeds $4,000, 100000 year;
81, $50, 900. 600 OF freight passes over the
railroads, $3.50, 600, 900 over the canals
md $3.50, 900, 900 over the Sound and
axes. New York sustains over 1000
newspapers and periodicals, has s60o,-
700, 900 in the savings banks, $500, ,ooO,-
300 in insurance companies and $780,
200, 900 in capital and loans Of the
banks. There are 5000 miles of rail-
roads, which cost over 5000, 900, 900.
There are 1000, 900 acres Of farm lands,
valued at s1,O5e, 900, 900, and annually
producing SITS, ,0O0, 900.
The production Of cotton is rapidly
increasing in quantity in the transcas-
oian provinces of Russia Last year as
many as ~, 565 tons of raw cotton were
transported across the Caspian to Baku,
md thence by the Transcaucasian rail
way to Batoum and Poti. After re-
shipment at these places the cotton
was conveyed to Odessa and Sebas-
topol, and thence to the weaving mills
vt Lodz, Warsaw and those In the
Moscow district 1t being cheaper than
sither American or Egyptian cotton,
which pays very heavy import duty,
Il may be that in few yearA when
she cotton crop OF the transcaspian
provinces will suffice to furnish tb
Jaw material required by the Rup' a, ,
mills, American and Egyptian cottoy
will cease to be bought in Rp.ssia