The Van Buren press., 1893-07-22
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

SCIENCE AND lNDuSrRx.
The forests Of Germany cover aheat
q. 50, 90 acre~ e< one-foarth Of the
vhSEe sreaacs the emplre, Of which
ahy0t 80 eaa Drfn A. crown prop
ertyg y {Aa1fa aexU He=sx - ez=s-
muniticspn1 c@p1Atiots and is,eees-
go su<S are GNned ~ private per
soa&
!. American pig irons are gradually
di<plaeing the English and Scotch
produces neentral and western Can
ADJ Al Nonfreei. where the foreign
irons are landed they have the sa-
vantage in price. but when the csss II
land transportation IS added il becomes
impossible TO sell il in competition with
American iron made in Ohio and Pena-
va~na< -
@rhs G4esaaed wh1e heser has
ð buf once, and that Is when il IS
born said q New Yorker who MAS
fcrnerlya wh1ler. Those teeth are
milk teefA. and when the young whale
is weaned they do not fall out Ike
baby's milk teeth. but disappear hy
absorption in the jaw. and instead of
being replaced by permanent teeth.
plates Of beleen. or whalehoue. are sub
stituted1or them N u Sun
&-Jspan produces an average ot
ooo. 600 bushels of wheat from l.osa. 900
acres every year. Though ii imports
very little wheat. yet the quantltr 5
gradually increasing. while the exports
are diminishing. The annual prease-
tion Of barley averages -. osa. eae bash
els, the imports in this case also show
ing q tendency to increase and the ex-
ports to decrease
1T looks almost as if the export ~
franen neat frun Ssv' zealAnf had
resehed It's limit. as any rate FOR the
present, because in tsss the shipments
were l., $4,000 pounds less than Ia
1sai. The reason assigned in the cal-
ouy Is that there has been such an un-
usual demand for live stock. to stock
new land that S being opened up. that
this trade has paid better than ship
ping for export If this be the case.
then we may look for even heavier
sAiPosasswithin~-fewyeszA-=%
A learned German scientist makes
the astonishing announcement that
smong women mnstaehess are COM
monef IN the present day than they
used to be in the past In Constanti-
nople one ont of every ten women have
uninistakable evidencess Of dokn on
their upper lips. A similar proportion
of mustached women is to be noticed
among ladies in Madrid. And in Phila-
delphia physician in cold blood has
observed that fully three per cent. of
the women are mustached. What do
these facts indicate? A certain Mr..
Mott thinks they indicate the improve
ment Of the human race, for, according
TO his theory, the race is destined
eventually to be completely covered
with hair.
Some extraordinary experiments
ere reported from berlin of the explo-
sive which is toreplace the powder at
present in use In the German army.
The new explosive is. . greasy sub
stance of brown color, of the consis-
teney of frozen oil 1t does moi explode
By blows or shocks and il thrown on
the fire burns slowly with a blush
fame 1t only explodes by the intro.
duction Of = certain substance. which
is the secret OF the inventor. The re-
port is not very loud. but the ballistic
effect is said to be nine times that OF
powder. A quantity not larger than
poppy seed of the substance which
causes this explosion is suffisient- and
il is inserted into the cartridge BY
means of needle
1T has often been proved that dogs
are able to track their masters through
crowded streets where il would be inn
possible to attribute their accuracy to
anything except the sense of smell
alone. A naturalist once made some
interesting experiments as to this
power IS exhibited in his own dog. In
these tests the naturalist found that
his dumb friend coald easily follow in
fhe tracks Of his master. though he was
far ont of sight. and that too. after no
less than eleven persons had followed.
stepping exactly in the tracks made BY
his master, it being the deliberate in
tention to confuse the senses of the
dog. IL possible Further experiment
proved that the animal tracked the
booss iAssead Of thssns3- 4or when the
naturalis4 puten new fsotgear the dog
failed entirely.
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