Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1893-03-23
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.
The expenditure of the South Aus
tralian government in connection with
its woods aud forests, agricultural bu-
reau and agricultural college depart
| ments, for the year ending June 30, 1892,
amounted in the aggregate to $4,000.
Mexico shipped nearly $4,000 boxes
of oranges, worth S45, 900, to the United
States between November 81, 1891, and
April so, 1892. This was IS per cent
more than during the previous season,
and the average price was 10 cents per
| box higher.
There are seventy-eight butter and
| cheese factories in New Zealand. Farm
ers receive about 6 cents a gallon for
| milk, and the butter is forwarded to
England. The freight charge for the
entire distance of $4,000 miles is about
cents a pound.
By the recent discovery of fossil
hernipterous insect in the upper beds of
the Lower Silurian formation of Scania,
in Sweden, the horizon of insect life is
| lowered very considerably. Heretofore
the honor of being the most ancient of
insects has been ascribed to the cock
roach, one having occurred in the Upper
| Silurian of France
Calculations, based on the observa-
| ton of the refraction of light have
caused it to be supposed that the air
becomes so rare at the height of about
sixty miles that the distance may be
| regarded as the limit to it's sensible ex-
| tent, but other calculations made during
| the present century, of the distance of
the earth ut which meteors ignite, indi
| cate that the atmosphere extends up
wards of one hundred miles.
The largest vessel yet built or the
Weir in England, and said to be the
greatest cargo vessel in the world, was
successfully launched last month. This
vessel, which is built of steel, is 465 feet
long, 50 feet breadth and SO feet depth;
has gross register of 6, 400 tons, dead
weight capacity of $3.50 tons on 25 feet
draught, and gross displacement of 49,
600 tons The engines will drive the
vessel when fully loaded at speed of
1o11 knots.
During 1892 III vessels, aggregating
1,261, 107 tons, were launched in the
United Kingdom. OF this mum Der thirty
were war ships aggregating ISL, 157
tons displacement. The remaining 6S1
vessels totaled l, 100, $50 tons. The out
put of the year falls below that of 1891
by about 1000 tons. In both years the
proportion of sailing tonnage was un-
usually high. amounting last year to
over "a per cent and in 1891 over % per
cent of the total production. The out
put Of 1889 is the largest on record.
Making allowances for estimated pro-
portionate values of steam tonnage
compared with sailing tonnage, the out
put of 1892 was $50, 900 tons below that
of 1885,
"A series of experiments has demon
strated the relations between red fan
mel, monkeys, beer and rheumatism.
Two groups of Gagged monkeys were
abundantly supplied with beer by the
experimenters, one group being clad
in red flannel, the other group left
naked. All the naked monkeys con-
! tracted rheumatism. and all the flannel
clad monkeys escaped. Then the ex-
perimenters, having thoroughly cured
! the rheumatic monkeys, clad them in
flannel and let the other group go bare
The supply of beer was cont nued, and
the bare monkeys were attacked by the
rheumatism, while the hannel-clad
monkeys recovered The experimenters
declare the beer made all the monkeys
aptsubjects for rheumatism, but that the
flannel, by keeping off cold air from the
joints, prevented its development.
The topography of the Atlantic
Ocean bed is now almost as we'll known
| as if it were dry land. The charts rep
resent it as a huge trough of varying
depths, extending from pole to pole.
Here and there are rocky peaks, like
that of Teneriffe, or huge mountains of
sand, like the banks of Newfoundland,
| which reach up to or above the surface.
Between Ireland and Newfoundland
there is remarkable submarine plane.
This great Level stretch of ocean bottom
is always referred to as the telegraph
or ca BILE plateau because of the fact OF
the main submarine cables being
stretched across it. This plateau is be-
lieved to be continuation of the great
watershed which, between the lati-
tudes of 40 and so degrees north, sur
rounds the earth and divides the waters
| which flow south from those which flow
toward the north.