The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-03-18
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

The expenditure of the South Aus.
tralian government in connection with
Its woods and forests, agricultural bu.
reau and agricultural college depart.
ments, for the year ending June go, 1899,
amounted in the aggregate to s75 000
Mexico shipped nearly $4,000 boxes
Of oranges, worth $45, 900, to the United
States between November 21, 1891, and
April so, 1892 This was is per cent
more than during the previous season,
and the average price was 10 cents per
box higher.
There are seventy-eight butter and
cheese factories in New Zealand. Farm
ers receive about cents n gallon for
milk, and the butter is forwarded to
England. The freight charge for the
entire distance of $4,000 miles is about
cents pound
Calculations, based on the observa-
tion of the refraction of light, have
caused it to be supposed that the air
becomes so rare at the height of about
sixty miles that the distance may be
regarded as the limit to its sensible ex-
| tent, but other calculations made during
the present centuty, of the distance of
the earth at which meteors ignite, indi-
cate that the atmosphere extends up
wards of one hundred miles.
The largest vessel yet built on the
Weir in England, and said to be the
greatest cargo vessel in the world, was
successfully launched last month. This
vessel, which is built of steel, is 465 feet
long, SO feet breadth and 36 feet depth
has gross register of 6, 400 tons, dead
weight capacity of $3.50 tons on 25 feet
draught, and gross displacement of 49,
600 tons The engines will drive the
vessel when fully loaded at speed of
1O15 knots
During 1899 I'll vessels, aggregating
1861, 107 tons, were launched in the
United Kingdom. OF this mum ber thirty
were war ships, aggregating 151, 157
tons displacement. The remaining 6S1
vessels totaled 1, 100, $50 tons. The out
put of the year falls below that of 1891
by about 81, 900 tons. In both years the
proportion of sailing tonnage was un-
usually high, amounting last year to
over "a per cent. and in 1891 over 22 per
cent of the total production. The out
put of 1889 is the largest on record.
Making allowances for estimated pro-
portionate values of steam tonnage
compared with sailing tonnage, the out
put of 1899 was $50, 900 tons below that
Of 1889.
"A series of experiments has demoa-
strated the relations between red fam
mel, monkeys, beer and rheumatism.
Two groups of Gagged monkeys were
abundantly supplied with beer by the
eXperimenters, one group being clad
in red flannel, the other group left
naked. All the naked monkeys con-
tracted rheumatism, and all the flannel
clad monkeys escaped. Then the ex-
perimenters, having thoroughly cured
the rheumatic monkeys, clad them in
flannel and let the other group go bare.
The supply of beer was continued, and
the bare monkeys were attacked by the
rheumatism, while the flannel-clad
monkeys recovered The experimenters
declare the beer made all the monkeys
apt subjects for rheumatism, but that the
flannel, by keeping off cold air from the
joints prevented its development
The topography of the Atlantic
Ocean bed is now almost as well known
as if it were dry land. The charts rep
resent it as huge trough of varying
depths, extending from pole to pole.
Here and there are rocky peaks, like
that of Teneriffe, or huge mountains of
sand, like the banks of Newfoundland,
which reach up to or above the surface.
Between Ireland and Newfoundland
there is a remarkable submarine plane.
This great level stretch of ocean bottom
is always referred to as the telegraph
or cable plateau" because of the fact of
the main submarine cables being
stretched across it, This plateau is be-
lieved to be continuation of the great
watershed which, between the lati-
tudes of 40 and so degrees north, sur
rounds the earth and divides the waters
which flow south from those which flow
toward the north.