The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-10-14
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.
Statistics gathered by the Germsu
imperial commissioner on labor show
that In many parts of the empire the
duration Of work exceeds fifteen hour
daily. In northwest Germany the PEI
csntage Of work people laboring thu1
long is 1913 Of the whole.
--Photographing the depths Of the
scientist, M. Boutan. Being prs1
ticed diver, M. Boutan managed -
take photographs Of his surroundings
when standing on the very bed of the
Mediterranean at Hanyulis-sur-Mer,
near the Spanish border.
Among the products which science
has put to valuable service 10 the nee
tie, a weed which is now being cult
vated in some parts Of Europe, its fibef
proving useful for a variety of textile
fabrics. In Dresden a thread is pro-
duced from 1t so fine that length It
sixty miles weighs only two and half
pounds.
The membrane lining the canal OF
the ear contains great number OF lit
tie glands which secrete a waxy sub
stance having an intensely bitter taste.
The purpose of this Is to prevent the
entrance Of insects and to keep the ear
clean. as the layer Of wax dries in
scales. which fall rapidly away, thus
removing with them any particle Of
dust or other foreign matter which
may have found entrance to the ear.
The whaling industry has fallen OF
30 much as to play but a small part In
h4 ,t,Nr1l'c Tho 1afnot
figures obtainableshow the production
to average between $4,000 and 10000
tons of 252 gallons each per year. There
are two kinds of whale oil, the sperm,
taken from the head of the cacholot or
sperm whale, and train oil, which Is
derived fro,o the common whale, or as
it is more commonly known, the right
whale. Sperm oil is worth from $3.50 to
$500 per ton and the ordinary train oal
about s2Oo.-Chicago Herald.
1t is reported that n large industry
is being built up at Barrow, England,in
the production of steel barrels for the
conveyance of petroleum. The barrels
are made in halves by means of com.
preston in mold when hot. After.
ward they are welded together by
means of electricity. The barrels are
intended for use by the large oil carry
ing companies engaged in the oil trade
in the east, where the temperature has
a great effect on wooden casks and re.
suits in SO much leakage.
Six Thousand salmon were taken in
nets from the wharves at Port Angeles,
Wash, by amateur and casual fisher.
men during one day recently. The run
of salmon up the smaller streams en-.
tering the lower part of Puget Sound
has been greater than ever before
known. On some days the streams
were quite choked, and the barbarous
practice of fishing with giant powder
was resorted to, until the straits be.
came filled with dead salmon, and tha
attention of the state fish commission
was called to the outrage, when it was
promptly stopped.
Curious resemblances in nature
start with the cocoanut, in many re-
spects like the human skull and almost
facsimile of the monkeys. The
meat of the English walnut is almost a
copy of the human brain: plums and
black cherries like the human eye, al
monds like the human nose, and an
] opened oyster and shell perfect like
ness Of the human ear. The shape Of
a mans body may be traced in the
mammoth squash, the open hand in
growing scrub willows and celery, the
human heart in German turnips and
egg plant, and dozens of the mechan-
ical inventions of the present day to
patterns furnished by nature. Thus,
the hog suggested the plow, the but
terfy the door hinge, the frog stool
. the umbrella, the duck the ship, and
the fungus growth on trees the bracket.
Among reptiles the eggs exhibit
great variety. The eggs of alligatots
are elongated and almost cylindrical.
evenly rounded at both ends, and about
the size of an ordinary ducks egg.
The eggs Of the sea turtle are as large
} as n small apple, rounded, and have a
turtle are much smaller, but also
rounded. Those of the terrapins and
other genera are oblong, as also are
those of lizards. In the common black
and yellow-dotted American fresh
water terrapins, and in the painted
terrapin, the eggs require four years
of growth before they are laid. Take
/ a seven-year-old turtle of this kind. 1t
. will contain only very small eggs, all
, of uniform size. An eight-year-old tor
toise of the same kind will have two
sets of eggs, one larger and one smaller.
One of nine years will have three sets,
the oldest set being the size of small
! pea. A tortoise of ten years will have
I four sets of eggs, and in that year she
I will lay for the first time, and give
l birth to the most mature set.