The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-09-16
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

ties are raised to temperature which
reaches from 5000, 900 to 1000, 900 de
grees-high enough to consume tn,
hardest known substance almost in
stantly. Thus only those of large siz,
reach the earth before being entirel,
burnt up.
"A constant and large increase 1!
noted in the output of the oil wells o.
the Caspian region. About 5000 ton.
are exported every working day of the
year from Batoum alone, and the ex
ports of last year were 6S,833 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 a reservoir at an elevation OF
100 feet. The Pacific Lumberman 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, 1918, was watching the battle Of
the Pyrenees from the mountain called
Pena dc Aya he and his officers were
suddenly surrounded by suchsa 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 which have been doing q
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,-
ass; 1891, 615,332; 1899, 754.54s; 1898
| eleven months), 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 II, ,Os8, 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 1000 years, which will give
the world time to look round and either
discover more or find a proper substi-
tute.
The state farm at Roanoke, N. G.,
employs more than 500 convicts, who
have under cultivation about G,O0o
acres. There will be an enormous crop
this season. The cornfeld contains
about 2OOO acres, and will yield about
1000 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.
DIR. Bowdler Sharpe suggested in
recent lecture on the geographical dis
tribution of birds before the ROYAL
Institution of London that there was
once great continent with it's 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
shavings of the blacksmith shop into
Prussian blue, fusel oil into oil of
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. In
Paris they first utilize rats to clear the
flesh from the bones of carcasses, then
kill the rats, use up their fur for trim
mings, their skin for gloves, their thigh
bones for toothpiclSs, and their tendons
and bones for gelatine wrappers.
1t is familiar fact that persons
born deaf are usually mute not from
any congenital defect in the organs of
speech, but from the fact that, never
having heard others speak, they cannot
initiate articulate utterance. bis prob
ably true, too, that the source of some
current errors of speech among those
who are not esteemed deaf lies in a
defect of hearing. Many persons who
habitually tack on the "r' sound to
words edding in ''w" say that they are
unable to distinguish, for example, be-
tween claw" and ''lor."
Masks are of very ancient origin.
In tomb 5000 years old, at Mycenae,
Dr. Schliemann found two bodies with
faces covered i y masks Of gold. One of
the masks represented the head of
lion. Among ancient Greeks the lion
mask was a sign of distinction. With
the Peruvians of old it was a mark of
royal lineage. In grave of consider.
able antiquity in Peru a silver mask
was found on the head of mummy.
The mummy of prince, who lived in
the reign of Rameses H., discovered in
a small vault at Memphis in Egypt,
had mask of gold leaf over the face.
An Antarctic whaling and sealing
company designed to operate on large
scale is being formed in Dundee. The
promoters propose to fit up depot on
the Falkland Islands, where sealskins |
could be salted, so that the ships could !
make several trips from there to the !
grounds, large steamers being en-
ployed to bring home the catches. The !
experts who went with the recent !!
Dundee expedition aver that not only |
are whales and seals found in much !
greater numbers in the south than in |
the north, but that an Antarctic seal.
skin OF the second class Is at least as |
good as an arctic skin of the first !
grade.
The White House Carpet.
II any ocular proof of the persistence :
OF otlice-seelcrs is needed, it exists in
the White House carpets. They look
as II they could never be made to smile |
again. The one on the stairs leading