The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-07-26
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

| Additional evidence on the subiec
of the supposed heat from the SUM-
rays is furnished by an experiment
recently reported in France. A balloon
with registering instruments was SEM
up d. distance of ten miles above the
earth's surface, where the temperature
registered was found to be lO4 degrees
| Fahrenheit.
| -Ihe Japanese are now making ten
MS rackets, and some of them are i'm
| ported to the United States. The work
| manship is uncOmmonly fine and all
| the materials look durable. Europeans
in Japan have long played tennis. and
the game originated good deal nearer
Japan than Europe. 1t was the Badmin-
ton brought to England by East Indian
travellers.
Dir. Lewis Swift. who is credited
with nine distinct comet discoveries.
thinks that comets are composed of
little particles as small as kernels of
wheat, each with its own atmosphere
surrounding it." but this is about the
extent of his knowledge on the subject.
land as to why the tail is sometimes
one way and sometimes the other" he
says, Il do not think any one knows"
-krupp of Prussia claims as the re-
suit of experiments that while only 10
TO 10 per cent. of heat units are utilized
IN the modern steam engine if the coal
is powdered to an impalpable powder
and exploded in cylinders, after the
manner OF an ordinary gas engine, rs
TO 81 per cent. of the heat units NAV
be realized
1t is surprising fact that of all the
organic salts of our body we only take
one-soo:um chloride. or common salt
from Inorganic nature and add it to
our r1od All other salts are present
IN o@'Saric foodstuffs in quantities suf-
hc@'Nt 70 our requirements: we have no
need to seek for them elsewhere.
topper must have been one of the |
earliest metals known, worked and |
valued IN human industry. 1t ranks !
second to silver in malleabilitv and due |
tlllty, or third as compared with cold |
winch Is the most malleable metal !
Known. and ranks next to iron in ten
'lle strength, and, being an abundant
metal, native in many parts of the
world, it often lies at or near the sur
ace of the earth.
"A series of chemical tests. ins+i-
uted at the instance of Pomeranian
larry farmers, showed that fully TWEEN
y-hve per cent. of the butter sold in
1efIln was adulterated with margarin.
he amount of the admiXture RANGED
rom 80 to 100 per cent. The conclusion
vas That the loss to German dairy far
lerS on this account could not be less
han ten thousand dollars per dav. A
loVement has been started to procure
'glslatlon against the fraud.
The vertebrae of a snake are fitted
ogether with sort of tall and socket
rtlculatlon, which, however, is cana
lie OF motion only from side to side. A
lake moves by propelling himself on
lie points of the scales. which. to him. Y
lswer the purpose of ribs A snake
PES not climb tree or bush by coiling {
'ound it, but by holding on with the
'lnts OF Its scales. A snake on a pane I
glass is almost helpless L
to the census the United u
ates produced 457 900, 900 dozen of
'gs IN 1879, and 17,OOO.0OO dozen in
81. These figures are probably under
e mark. At the figures given. how
er' the annual egg product of the
nlted States amounts to 500 O0O. 900.
to this we add the value of the poul-
Y sold we shall obtain a pretty high
'ure for the annual output of this de-
One authority has placed if -
$500, 10000. In 1898 the entire wheat :
up of the United States amounted TO
ly 1896, OOO,0 600 bushels, worth less than
10000, 00O.-Toronto Globe. -.
At the agricultural experiment sta "
N OF the Maine State college. OBJ
'vatlons covering the period of
Dwth OF four years have shown that
: excess of moisture in forest above
1t OF open field averages 10 per cent.
ching II per cent. in the middle of
day. The excess would undoubted- =
be greater in very dense forest. D.,
e presence of patches of forest in
7 region exerts a marked influence -
the microscopic conditions of the "a
fosphere, and this condition. in "
n, is an important factor in the
with of vegetation