Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-09-16
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.


reaches from 5000, 600 to a, 600, 900 de-
grees-high enough to consume the
hardest known substance almost in
stantly. Thus only those of large size
reach the earth before being entirely
burnt up.
"A constant and large increase is
noted in the output of the oil wells of |
the Caspian region About 5000 tons
are exported every working day of the |
year from Batoum alone, and the eX-
ports of last year were 63, 633 tons in |
excess of those of the previous year,
Two wave motor pumps have been
in operation some time out near the |
Cliff house, not far from San Francisco,
that have raised 100000 gallons per
day into reservoir at an elevation of
100 feet The Pacific Lum herman says:
"This appears to be the best result
that we know as having been obtained
from the various wave motors that
have been tried during the past six or
seven years"
Winged ants always fly in COM
panies, sometimes very numerous.
When Col. Augustus Frazier, on Octo-
ber G, 1913, was watching the battle of
the Pyrenees from the mountain called
Pena de Aya he and his officers were
suddenly surrounded by such cloud
of ants that their view of the battle
was cut off and they were compelled to
seek another station.
The reimposition of the Mexican
duty on corn, and the satisfactory crop
in Mexico, which is the cause of it,
means good deal to Kansas and Texas
and Missouri whiclf have been doing a
good business feeding the republic
south of us. The corn exports from
this country to Mexico, without meal,
were as follows, in bushels: 1890, 961,-
45S; 1891, 615. 332; 1892, 754. 54S; 1893
eleven months), 6, 6,544, 166.-N. Y. Jour
nal OF Commerce.
Coal first came into use in England
In 1884. During the last ten years there
were produced Lose, 900, 900 tons, and
coal fields have been discovered in
every country in the world. 1t is es-
timated that the coal fields now known
will supply the constantly increasing
demand for 1.OOO years, which will give
the world time to look round and either
discover more or find proper substi-
tute.
The state farm at Roanoke, n. c.,
employs more than 500 convicts, who
have under cultivation about 6.00O
acres. There will be an enormous crop
this season. The cornfield contains
about 1000 acres, and will yield about
| 100. 900 bushels; the cotton crop will be
about 1000 bales. More than 5000
bushels of wheat have been harvested,
and the pea crop will amount TO about
10000 bushels
DR.. Bowdler Sharpe suggested in a
recent lecture on the geographical dis
tribution of birds before the Royal
Institution of London that there was
once great continent with its center
at the South Pole, now submerged
under 1000 fathoms of ocean. 1t en-
braced, he said. South America, NADIA
gascar. Mauritius, New Zealand and
Australia: and thus he explained the
existence of the cognate struthious
birds that now exist, or once existed,
In those countries.
Chemists turn scrap iron into ink,
old bones into lucifer matches, the
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Prussian blue fuSel oil into oil ot
apples and pears, the DRAWINGS of COW
houses into fashionable perfumery
beggars' rags into new pilot coats, cess
pool filth into ammonia, and tar waste
into aniline dyes and saccharine. II
Paris they first utilize rats to clear the
flesh from the bones of carcasses, theI
kill the rats, use up their fur for trim
mings, their skin for gloves, their thigh
bones for toothpicks, and their tendon'
and bones for gelatine wrappers
1t is a familiar fact that person:
born deaf are usually mute not from
any congenital defect in the organs o
speech, but from the fact that, never
having heard others speak, they canno
initiate articulate utterance. tits prob
ably true. too, that the source of some
current errors of speech among thos,
who are not esteemed deaf lies in
defect of hearing. Many persons wh'
habitually tack on the ''r'' sound t,
words edding in wv" say that they ar
unable to distinguish, for example, be
tween law and "lor."
Masks are of very ancient origin
| III IL loiiib o,Voo ySuio 'A'' CIV ny SSitN
DR.. Schliemann found two bodies wit
faces covered by masks of gold. One o
t the masks represented the head of
lion. Among ancient Greeks the liol
mask was sign of distinction. Wit
the Peruvians of old it was a mark @
royal lineage. In grave of consider
able antiquity in Peru a silver mas
, was found on the head of mummy
The mummy of prince, who lived i
the reign of Rameses H., discovered i
small vault at Memphis in Egypt
had mask of gold leaf over the face.
An Antarctic whaling and sealin
company designed to operate on larg
, scale is being formed in Dundee. TIL
promoters propose to fit up depot o
, the Falkland Islands, where sealskin
could be salted, so that the ships coul
make several trips from there to tn
, grounds, large steamers being en-
ployed to bring home the catches. Th
, experts who went with the recen
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