The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-01-26
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

well as those OF New England, have
closed one of the most prosperous years
in their history. Within three years
there has been a development in the in
dustry amounting to fully 25 per cent
The state of Oregon has SO nurser-
les, covering 1,576 acres. and containing
about 100000 young trees, and or
chardists have upward of 100, 600 acres
of growing trees One-half of this acre
| age is in prunes, one-fourth in apples,
and the remainder in various kinds of
fruits Philadelphia Ledger.
Ordinary grated horseradish, eaten
at frequent intervals during the day and
in connection with food at the table, if
food is eaten at all, has been found re-
marka bly, efficacious in banishing the
| distressing cough that frequently lin
gers after all the other symptoms of the
grip have gone. 1t can do no harm to
| try it at all events scientific American.
The moon, whether full or not, has
not the slightest effect either upon the
| food, the weather or the mental condi-
| ton of insane persons The common be-
| lief of the influence of the moon upon
| terrestrial affairs is an interesting sur
vival of an astrological superstition. AS
| far as the earth is concerned, the action
| of the full moon is limited to the tides,
lovers and poets.
The longevity Of trees is much in
huenced by climate. The same trees
which will in England live for thou
sand years, would not live three hum
bred years in the climate of America
| The English oak lives in England for
many centuries; experience in America
shows that they pass their prime at one
hundred years. The English oak
planted by John Bartram in his famous
| garden has been dead these twenty
years 1t is the same with the Euro
pean chestnut-N. Y. Independent
The stems of grass and oats are usu-
ally hollow, and the knots and nodes
which occur at intervals, and which
have a peculiar degree of firmness de-
rived from the interlacing of fibers, give
them frmness and strength which
they would otherwise lack. If the ma
terial of wheat straw were in a solid
form it would make but a thin, wiry
stem, which would snap with great
ease, but in the hollow form, with the
intervening knots, the necessary sup
port is afforded.
Prof Leo Lesquereaux determined
before his death that the fora that ex-
listed on portions of our continent years
ago was different from that now exist
ing, but that the existing flora partalxes
of the characters of the old, and so GER
| tainly was not a fora imported from
some other region. In other words, the
present American fora came into exist
ence on the spot where it is now found,
and it is a new creation following the
old, which also came into existence here
in its day and generation also The
manner of its introduction, whether by
direct genesis from the old, or by spe-
cial formation, was once a question,
but the evolutionary view is now gen.
orally accepted. -Meehan's Monthly.
There is no city in the world that
keeps such accurate records of the entry
of food and fuel supplies within its
borders as Paris This is due to the
dfaet~ tlaakvu nihuAzulzupuuzt duty 4. levied
on almost every article of domestic use
| which is brought to this city. During
in Paris was s,279,O 600 gross tons, of
which 1,512,OO gross tons were brought
to the city by river and canal; l, 767, 900
gross tons were of French origin, 647,-
700 gross tons came from Belgium, 4ls,-
500 from Engla d, and 1919. 900 from
Germany. The small amount of char
coal used as fuel in Paris will bring the
total consumption of fuel to three and
one-half million gross tons. The yearly
| consumption of coal IN London is twelve
million tons. -Engineering and Mining
journal.
Deaf and dumb asylums, according
to DIR. A. M. Tanning, are filled with
persons who in early childhood COM
pletely lost their hearing, and conse-
quently their ability to talk through
neglect of their ears during an attack
of measles, scarlet fever or diphtheria.
The great majority of all forms of deaf
ness result from affections of the nose
and throat and many cases reach an
advanced stage before being noticed
Among long residents in the vicinity of
New York it is rarity to ind per-
fectly healthy nose and throat, and in a
recent experiment in large eye and
ear hospital not more than five out of
twenty-five patients were found to have
perfect hearing. Care was taken to
select only those who had never suf-
fered from any defect of hearing, vet
four-fifths of these patients were par
tally deaf without suspectinp it