The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1893-05-12

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seeds are often bleached by process
OF dioxide of sulphur. which robs the
seed of ) per cent of its growing prop
critics.
The museum Mt Leyden contains .
huge and almost perfect 4Epiornis egg,
bought from Frenchman for thou
sand guilders. or about s400, something
less than third Of the price paid not
long since for the egg of the great aux
sold at auction Mt Stevens rooms in
London.-N. Y. Independent.
A man weighs less when the bar
ometer is high. notwithstanding the
fact that the atmospheric pressure on
him is more than when the barometer
is low. AS the pressure of air ON an
ordinary sized man Is about ifteen
tons, the rise of the mercury from 80 to
81 inches adds about one ton To the
load he has To carry.
Savannah has long been the lead
ing city in America in naval supplies.
and last year beat her own record.
The receipts of rosin and turpentine at
that port for the twelve months ended
March Is were l,2.4,937 barrels, an in
crease of 100000 barrels over the re-
ceipts of the previous year These
figures have never been equaled at any
port on this continent. Jour
nal.
The rubber industry is one of tho
most profitable of this generation. Col-
lis r. Huntington once said that il he
were a young man with 100000 he
would go to Africa and engage in the
rubber business. why" said the rail-
road magnatc, "you can buy crude rub.
Der on the Congo-away up in the in
terior--for penny pound, and when
you get il down to the coast you can
sell il for nearly 100 times as much.
know of no better opening for young
men of grit and nerve"
The complete statistics show that
the production Of beet sugar in the
| United States has more than doubled
during the past year, although there
has been no increase in the number of
factories. The total production of the
six factories was cross, 800 pounds,
against a total Of 1a.Os4, s3s pounds last
year. Experiments in growing sugar
beets have been tried in number OF
the western states. and the success has
been so great that the number of fac
tories will be increased.
the fixed stars from the earth runs into
billions Of miles Some notion Of the
reality may be derived from the fact
that if our sun were removed about
200. 900 times its present distance from
the earth, it would appear to us simply
as star of the first magnitude. The
distance in such a case wonld exceed
10000. 000. 900 OF miles. 1t follows that
il the nearest fixed star is further of
than this. as appears to be the fact,
every star of the first magnitude must
be larger or brighter than our sun.
The orbit of the planet Neptune.
thirty times further from the sun than
that of the earth, forms the outer
boundary of the solar system. The
distance is immense, yet shrinks into
insignifcance when compared with
that which lies beyond. So vast is the
gulf which intervenes between our
earth and the stellar universe that, al
though many of the stars are in all
probability larger and brighter than
our sun. yet the most powerful tcle-
scope is not able to give them any APP
probable diameter. a mere point of
light being all that is visible.
The promise made by Nine. Schlic-
mann after the death of her dis
tinguished husband in 1890. that the
excavations of Troy would be con-
tinued. is abont to be fulfilled. Arrange
ments have been made to begin the
work again next month under the
direction of Professor Docrpfcld. the
first secretary Of the German Archmo-
logical institute of Athens. Nine.
Schliemann herself will spend consider
able time on the field of operations.
Professor Doerpfeld under her direc-
tions and his assistants will welcome
visitors to the place who wish to in
vestigate the progress Of the work and
see personally the interesting sights.
In no country do English mining
investments appear to such advantage
as in the Witwatcrsrand. South Africa.
From figures recently published il is
learned that the twenty-four principal
companies, having an issued capital Of
| R7.243.G12. paid dividends in 1892
amounting to f79i .04s, or at the rate of
1919 per cent. upon issued capital. Ac-
cording to the market quotations Of
the stocks of these companies on jan
uary |, 1898, the properties were worth
Rl2. 900, which would reduce the
dividend rate to 600 per cent, but even
so the showing is a good one. OF the
twenty-four companies mentioned
eight, representing an issued capital of
a., 647 900 and an actual quoted value
of SO. 40. 900. paid no dividends ut all,
consequently the dididcnds paid were
Mt the rate Of 17-o per cent. on the
issued capital Of the dividend-paying
companies and ut the rate of s.3 per
cent on their quoted alue.-Enginesf-
ing and Mining Journal.
M. Lepirre, French artist, states
that in demonstrating that sulphur
melted at about rs degrees can be
cooled in paper. he happened to use .
Autographed card, Of which the edges
were turned up. Upon taking away
the card IL was discovered that the
Autographed characters were clearly
and distinctly impressed upon the
cooled surface of the sulphur, remain
| ior Thus after hard frictinu MI al.