Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-02-03
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

A new belt of natural gas has been
struck in Ohio.
In Europe there are rather more than
100 women to 100 men.
The death rate IN this country from
tuberculosis, or consumption, is on the
decrease.
The apple contains larger percent
age of phosphorus than any other fruit
or vegetable.
Out of a total of 513 known species
of animals in Africa, 472 of them are to
be found in no other country.
A 1000 horsepower electric locomo-
tive has just been finished at Baden,
Turich. 1t is the largest in the world.
Over the whole world the proportion
of the sexes is about equal, but in sepa-
rate parts of the world it varies greatly.
An Englishman has invented new
system of electric mains whereby one
wire of the present three-wire system can
be saved.
An Austrian engineer proposes to carry
passengers from Vienna to Pesth, Hun
gary, by an electric locomotive at the
rate of 1913 miles an hour.
The Victoria Railroad Bridge over the
st. Lawrence at Montreal, Canada, is
two miles long, cost over $5, 900, 900,
and contains 10, 500 tons of iron and
5000, 900 cubic feet of masonry.
An electrically controlled machine
which will effectively stamp 80, 900 let
ters in an hour is one of the interesting
inventions thai has been adopted in the
United States Postoffice Department.
Th united capacity of all the plants
now in operation in the world for re-
fining copper by electrolysis amounts to
nearly one hundred tons of copper de.
posted per day of twenty four hours.
Many years since, apples were packed
in barrels from which lime had just been
emptied. On opening them in spring,
they were nearly all sound, while the
same variety not thus packed was badly
rotted.
Ii. Devaux has been making expert
ments with the sense of taste in ants, in
course of which he found that while
fond of sugar they dislike saccharin, and
even refused sugar when mixed with
saccharin.
DR.. Murray, of the Royal Society of
Edinburgh, estimates the mean height
of the land of the globe to be 1900 feet
above sea level. Humboldt's estimate
placed the same level at only 1000 feet
above high water mark.
By the TRANSMISSION of artificial or chem.
ical blood in her veins the life of Mrs.
Louise Christian, of Lyon Mountain, N.
Y, has been saved. She had been very
i'll for long while and was apparently
about to breathe her last.
What is claimed = be the largest wire.
nail machine ever built in the United
States was finished recently by Green
point IN. " firm, and shipped to nail
concern at Everett, State of Washington.
The total weight of the machine was 12t
tons, and it is capable of making nails
weighing half-pound each at the rate
of one second. Nails of any desired
length can, however, be manufactured
by simply adjusting the feed.
A comparative estimate, made by an
English engineer, as to the cost of train
lighting by gas, oil and electricity, in.
dicates that oil varies from one to two
cents per lamp per hour, compressei / gas
costs one cent per lamp per hour and
electricity one-half cent per lamp per
hour, while the cost of plant was about
FIVE per cent. less for electricity than for
gas. This will be a welcome piece of
news to railroad companies. The su.
periority of the electric light in giving
more uniform illumination and not foul
ing the air commends it, irrespective OF
any question of expense.