The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-08-12
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.


--Freilch doctors are finding that Dr.
I3rown-Sequar,is elixir which sew.
eral 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 incurnble.
Although an ant is tiny creature,
yet it's brain is even timer. But, al.
though it is necessarily smaller than
the ants head which contains it. yet it
is larger in proportion, according to the
ants size, than the brain of any known
creature.
Snoring isn't confined to sleep: per.
sons with some forms of nasal catarrh
snore continually. But healthy man
snores. us 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 were shut he
wouldn't snore.
DIR. Koeppcn, in his ANNALS of Ma
rine photography 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-
duccs 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's shop into
Prussian blue, fusel oil into oil of ap-
pies and pears, the DRAWINGS of cow
houses into fashionable perfumery, beg
gars' rags into new pilot coats, cesspool
filth into ammonia and tar waste into
aniline dyes and saccharine.
-Corals increase by eggs, spontane
Gus cdivision 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, 100000 miles per second-sup-
pose message to be sent at this speed
from 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 mix
ture of two parts of pounded ice and
one of common salt will reduce the
temperature of body surrounded by
it from so degrees to zero.
Prof. II. NJ. Ward states that there
are probably more than 300 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. 1t has been discovered
that milk can be kept perfectly fresh
in frozen condition for more than a
month. 1t is frozen by means of an or.
dinary ice-making machine, and des-
patched by road, rail or steamer to its
/ Il ftro ,hO
chases the frozen milk has simply to
thaw it when it is required for use.
| Nicaragua. which is attracting sc
much attention just now has popu-
lation of about 3OO,GO0, and is one of
Il the richest countries in the world in
natural resources. Besides valuable
mines of gold, silver, copper and quick
silver. it produces all kinds of tropica
fruits, as well as cedar. indigo, coffee
and sugar. Its sugar cane grows tc
enormous proportions and often attain!
such size that the plantations resemble
groves of trees.-Aberdeen Is. ID.
News.
The area planted in cotton til.
present year is estimated at 19,701 ,3S'
acres, an increase over last year of TN
per cent. and about the same as in 1887
also showing very little difference from
1883. The total acreage for 1892 wa
1882, 900; in 1891 it was 2O,s6S, 900; il
1890, 2O,910. 900, in 1889, 30,173,0 900; il
1855. 1871 ,000: and in 1887, 9,42S, 900
The average yield has varied from 16
pounds of lint cotton to the acre to 20
pounds. the greatest yield being il
ls9l-92, when the crop was 9,039,0 90
bales Memphis Appeal-Avalanche.