The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-09-23
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

In 1888 biel6S comet was split IL
two and in 1879 IL failed to appear
when and where il should have done,
Evidently 1t had been smashed up and
prediction was made that there would
be great mcteoric shower composed
OF the remains of the lost comet. This
prediction was fulfilled.
Labor bureaus which were ex.
pccted TO solve the problem Of the un.
employed in London have proved dis.
heartening failure. At one c.,lce some
800 applicants in search OF w.,rk of any
kind registered, an | only three cm.
ploycrs appl ed for hslp; Sc that after
three months work the bureau found
employment for only two IN en-.
The most curious thing about the
butterfly is the size OF ths. case from
which the insect proceeds compared
with the size of the insects body. The
case is rarely more than one inch long
the butterfly covers u surface of nearly
four inches square.
Granite is the lowest rock in the
earth's crust; it is the bed rock of the
world. 1t shows no evidence of animal
or vegetable life. 1t is from two to ten
times as thick as the united thickness
OF all the rocks. 1t is the parent rock
from which all other rocks have been
directly or indirectly derived.
The total quantity of coal coke,
cinders and fuel exported during the
first quarter of 1898 from the United
Kingdom was 8, 45O,077 tons, an increase
of $50, ,537 tons over the first quarter of
1882, and of 2S, 4s4 tons over the first
quarter of 1891. The average price of
the exported fuel in 1893 was s..36; in
1899. SO. s3, and in 1891, s2.93.
In support of the modern theory
that sound does not consist of given
number of countable wavebeats, n we'll.
known writer adduces the fact that a
plate of iron, even an inch thick. when
used as the diaphragm of telephone,
will respond to and transmit perfectly
the sound vibrations of the human
voice. a result which it is almost incon-
ccivable to suppose could be effected
by mere mass vibration.
Cats have for some time been known
to be the means of conveying the in
fection of diphtheria, and now they
stand arraigned on another charge of
a similar uatur A surgeon (says the
London correspondent of the Manches-
ter GMardian) has just distinctly traced
nm outbreak of scarlet fever in house
to the intrusion of cat from an in.
fected household, and ita is even said
that a case has come under the notice
of a medical officer of health in which
smallpox was so conveyed.
--Comte Chardonncr some ye,rs ago
invented a process FOR the MAJ .ufa cture
of silk from wood pulp by method
similar to that employed for converting
wood into paper Large works were
built at Besancon, and some remarl1a-
bic specimens of silk were shown, but
it was found that the fabric could not
be woven successfully in large pieces
and that it was so highly inilammable
as to be source of danger. The ex-
perilnents were dropped, but COM
pany has now been organized at st.
of making the process practical.
OF all the vegetable products of
the Malay peninsula. gambir is of
second Importance. lis indispensable
in the tanning and silk trades, and is
used to a small extent in medicine.
The larger portion of the drug that
finds it's way to market is exported
from Singapore, and the average value
of the annual exports for the last five
years was nearly 81, 700, 600. Tie gambir
plant is climbing shrub and It's stems
are from one to three inches in dame
ter in the cultivated plant, but more
slender when it grows wild. {.
Francis p. Pascoe, who died in En-
gland few days ago. had been known
to limited circle for nearly half a
century as one of the most eminent 20
ologists of the age. He was an inti-
mate friend of Owen and Darwin, and
their enthusiastic and valued fellow
Mr.. Pascoe possessed one of
the finest private geological museums
in the world. He was the author of
the following works: Geological Clas-
Notes ON Natural Selection
and the Origin of Species" List of
British Vertebrate Animals" and "An-
alytical List of the Orders of the Ami
NAL Kingdom
Prof. Zuntz, at the Physiological
society of Berlin. definitely explains
the making of sugar sweeter by the
of salt. From his experiments,
he finds that if to solution of sugar
there be added a slight amount of salt
and water, so weak that it excites no
saline taste, the result is extra sweet
ening of the sugared water. The weak
,st of quinine solution is said also to
produce similar results. The eXplana-
tion given of the above seeming incon-
gruity is that the ever so feeble salt
ness bitterness imparts an increased
to the sensation of taste by
the simultaneous stimuli, and hence
an appreciation of additional sweet
css.-British Medical Journal.
Crock Women OF To-day.
For centuries we have been taught
to look upon the Grecian type of beauty
rs the ideal of all loveliness. To tell a
that her nose or left ear or
right eyebrow was pure Greek, was the
highest compliment one could pay her
Now comes an iconoclastic traveller to
declare that the Gree ian woman is
short, broad and stout, with pale,
creamy skin, dark hair and beautiful
eyes, features fairly regular, but not
The pveva ling impression
that she leaves upon the Englishman
Is that she has squat figure; for the
of Greece de stroy their figures
on account of the Sc dentary lives they
live. 1t is the Gus tom of the country
for women to rem ain in the privacy of