The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1894-03-31
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

The shark 10 the fastest swimmer
az the fish tribe over long distances,
and finds no difficulty in keeping up
with the swiftest vessels, swimming
and playing around them and ever on
the lookout for morsels, small or large.
Land snails are distinguished oy
an extreme tenacity of life in every
stage of growth. DR.. R. stearns, IN ms
report on the mollusk fauna COLLECTED
during the voyage of the Albatross IN
1s77-s8, tells Of one snail living without
food for at least six years and being
apparently no worse for the long iaS''
1T is generally supposed that when q
mans heart pulsations go down TO ior'y
a minute death will follow unless re-
storatives are administered. Yet the
pulsations of Thomas Lyons, OF benton
Harbor, Mich, have sunk as low Us
eighteen minute, although to all ap
pearances he Is we'll and strong.
If parents are tall the children tend
TO be tall, but the offspring OF parents
Of UNEQUAL height more frequently fol
low the shorter. Excessive tallness Is
very rarely perpetuated; even II ooth
the parents are above the average, the
height of the offspring is usually only
a third of the excess reached by the
parents
1T is estimated that during the
sixteen weeks struggle in the coal in
dustry of Great Britain, that the loss
figured out the enormous total OF $780,
900, 900. Among other items OF this
prodigious and practically unnecessary
waste, coal miners lost $94 600, 600 IN
wages; operators. sls, 600, 600 in profits
iron workers, e4S, O0O, 900; iron manu-
facturers, IS, SOC, 900; factory and work
shop employees, s15, 500, 900 and employ
efs, 1850, OO.-Age Of Steel
Oklahoma continues to comport
herself as II she had been open to set.
Element q hundred years instead OF
only four. Her latest statistics show
nearly 2,4O0, 900 acres of farm land in
Use, with d cash value OF more than
s1s, 1000, 900. Her farm implements are
worth sS4o, 900, and she has growing
oss, 900 apple trees, 64s, 900 peach trees,
SO, 900 cherry trees, $1,000 pear trees,
and a great variety of other fruit trees
and Of vines. The whole territory is
adapted to Embarrassing. Y. Sun.
DR. Koppen, Of Hamburg, has COM
inundated to the United States hydro
graphic Office his method for calming
the waves about ship in times oil
storm. He recommends the use of soar
suds q. w. Leutchales. assistant
United States photographer, says that
II is the particles of air underneath the
wster which result in the formation OF
waves He also recommends soap suds
for nreventinp the growth of waves.
"A process of plating aluminium ha.
heen devised bv Prof. Neesen, a Ger
man chemist. which shows very good
results The aluminium is first dipped
in n solution of caustic potash or soda
mr. in muriatic acid. until bubbles Of
gas bec;n To annear. then into zorro
s;ve sublimate. then a second time into
The caust;c ar acid and finally into q
.o,rt;on ~ a salt of the desired metal
A Aim Of the metal is rapidly formed,
and adheres 40 firmlv that. in the case
~ cold silver or conner the Mate NAV
ha rolled ont mr. nolished.
-Thut the continent NJ Eurone l,
bas.ino through cold period has been
pointed ont bv M. Fiammariou. the
Erencb astronomer During the mast
.,r wear. the mean temnerature al
paris has been about two degrees be.
low tho normal and Great Britain
neloium. Snain. 1talv. Austria and
Germ.nv have also heen growing cold
Tho change seems To have been in
rrogress IN Franco Tor a lono time. the
Growth Of the vine having been forced
f.r soutbward since the thirteenth
cc injury. md a similar cooling has been
ob.erved as FAR away as Rio de Ia.
Nero where the ANIMAL temneraturc
49, ,,oor oo;ro down for coma Won =.
mast
Tho deen sea tbermometer. as in.
vented abroad and improved by officers
or.Iv ;r.on;ors ond offect;ve con+r;.
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