The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-12-07

HOLLAND excels the world in it's
average yield Of potatoes. That coun-
try produces lit bushels to the acre;
Italy comes next, with 1874; Germany,
121; France, 1O2; the United States, 70.
-"Wells' Science of Common Things"
says that if our atmosphere could be
condensed until it would occupy no
more space than the same weight of
water, 1t would only extend to an ele-
walton of "a feet above the surface of
the earth.
A"Onchyophagy" is a new word
coined by French doctor, who thinks
he has discovered that when school
girls bite their nails it is because of a
derauged condition of the nervous sys-
tenn, for which supposed arrangement
he has invented the above name.
The problem of profitably produc-
ing beet sugar in the west has appar-
emily been solved. The factory at
Norfolk, Neb., has manufactured and
sent to market, within about four
weeks, tifty-two carloads of the best
graduated sugar, made from beets
raised in Nebraska soil. Kansas City
Journal.
The rice harvest on the farm near
Kissimme, Fla, that has heretofore
been worthless, yielded about sixty
bushels per acre for the first crop and
the second crop will yield about twenty
bushels more This will put Florida
rice in the market at n time when there
is very little competition, and will
h,.iv, no lat f., he,
SEASON.
When Lord Beaconsheld invested
something over $4,000, 900 of British
funds In the Suez canal enterprise
eighteen years ago, there was n great
deal of moaning, but the investment
has proved valuable one. The Brit
ish treasury has received 5 per cent. on
its money, and the stocks are now
worth $sS, 1850 900, or more than four
times their cost. milwaukee journal.
-Four hundred and sixty-one degrees
below the freezing point of the Fahren-
heit thermometer lies a mysterious,
specially indicated degree of cold which
science has long been gazing toward
and striving to attain, wondering mean
while what may be the condition of
matter at this unexplored point Its
existence has long been indicated and
its position established.
1T is stated that Argentina wheat
can be grown-fifteen bushels to the
acre-at a profit of thirteen cents
bushel IL sold in Europe at seventy
cents bushel. The crop this year, it
is added, is SO, 000 900 bushels over and
above the needs for home consumption.
In the eight months ended August 81
there were nearly 30, 900, 900 bushels of
the surplus exported. But one-twen-
tieth of the area of Argentina suitable
for wheat growing is now under Guilt
walton.
"A very interesting topic, which is
winning its way to attention, Is the
periodic and secular variation of the
latitude of places on the earth's sur
face. Prof. Chandler has been labor
iously investigating these movements
for some time. He has examined rec
ords extending over the last half cent
ury, and including $4,000 observations
of latitude, and has come to the con-
clusion that the observed value of lati-
tude Is the resultant arising from the
stperposition of two periodic fiuctua-
lions. These are-(a) one of APT days
due to a separation Of the axis of rota
ton from the chief axis of inertia, and
(b) an annual one due to the periodic
shifting of the earth s center of gravity
in connection with seasonal redistribu-
tions of moisture. -Knowledge.
The following are the approved in
structions for bringing on hypnotic
frances: Take any bright object and
hold it between the fingers of the left
hand, about foot from the eyes of the
person upon whom the experiment is
being tried, in such position above
the forehead as to produce the greatest
strain compatible with steady, fixed
gaze at the object. The person must
then be directed to Ak the mind on the
object he is gazing at. His pupils will
first contract and then dilate consider
ably, and after they are we'll di-
lated the first and second finger of the
operators right hand (extended and n
little separately should be carried from
the object toward the patients eye.
When this is done the eyelids will most
probably close. Carry out these direc-
tions and in few seconds the person
will be thoroughly hypnotized.
The earth has not been put in a
scale and balance against a known
weight, but mathematicians have cal
culated it's weight Prof Maskelyne
first attacked this subject in l772,
when, by repeated experiments, he
determined the attraction exerted at
Mount Schihallion. in Perthshire, Scot
land, on a plumb line, which it caused
to deviate from the perpendicular near
ly six seconds Playfair, Cavendish,
Hutton and other scientists then deter
mined that the structure of this noun
tain made it have density, as COM
pared to the mean density of the earth,
of Ave to nine. Then the comparative
Density of Schihallion to water was
ascertained, and that of earth to water
being known as about five and half
to one, It was not hard to calculate the
rest knowing the cubical contents of
the earth. 1t has been stated as 5,S42
trillions of tons of 2,240 pounds each,
or a value in pounds avoirdupois repre-
sented by thirteen and twenty-four
ciphers.
NUNS and Cravats.