The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-01-11
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

North Dakota has several wheat
farms of 10000 to $1,000 acres each.
Over 21O, 900 tons of buffalo bones, rep
resenting $500. Gee animals, have been
exported from this state.
The public cannot too clearly under
stand that medical science has nothing
more valuable to offer than its non
medicinal suggestions, grounded on
clinical and laboratory research
health maxims which, as the Paris
proAigate told his doctor, ANY fool
knows something of, and which, may
add, all fools decline to pay for except
in bitter personal experience.
-California's vintage this year will
be about $4,000, 900 gallons, some 3,OOO,-
900 gallons more than last years yield,
and the quality will be good. 1t is ex-
pected that the vintage of the state
will show decrease during the next
ten years, owing to the ravages of
phylloXera and to overplanting. The
low prices caused by overproductiou
tend also to place check on the in
dustry.
One way of toughening ourselves is
by means of cold foot bath. We take
cold through the feet as often as any
way; by putting them in cold water for
about ten seconds morning and night,
and then rubbing them till they are
red, is grand remedy for all this, and
toughens us very much. Ten or fifteen
seconds are long enough, and even less
will do in the first few times. 1t is I'M
wise to prolong this bath, and may do
harm.
Speaking of snakes, in answer to a
question by Ruskin, What use has
serpent for its tongue?" Mr.. Hudson,
after denying that it is an insect
catching organ, a decoy, or tao
tile organ, suggests that the snake
uses its tongue to concentrate the at
tention of an intended victim upon it's
head, while it's body is being trailed
forward to effect the capture.
"A sort of anti-decay apparatus has
been invented for preserving pictures.
1t is a glass tray with solid back, and
the picture is put inside and hermet-
ically sealed. The air is then ex-
hausted with an air pump, with the
result that in this vacuum the paint
will preserve its pristine freshness pref
ty well forever unless the thing leaks.
New England's mackerel catch this
season was 81, AS barrels, an increase
of some 1000 barrels over that of last
year, 10000 over that of the year be-
fore, and more than three times the
catch of 1890. This does not, however,
indicate a steady growth of the indus
try, for the size of the catch fluctu-
ates greatly In 1888 it was over 40, 900
barrels, and fell to between 10000 and
Il, 900 the two succeeding seasons.
1t may not be known to the general
reader that rifle ball DETECTED from
its course Immediately resumes its line
of flight after trimming the object it is
unable to pass directly through That
is to say, ball turned from it's course
by rib passes under the skin until it
reaches point mathema tically oppo-
site to the point where it entered the
soldiers body and then passes out, re-
Stunning it's exact line of flight, if enough
of its initial velocity remains.
Goat raising is an important and
growing industry in Oregon and some
other northwestern states. One rancher
in Benton county, Ore, has a fine herd of
$50 goats, which includes number of
thorough bred Angora bucks. Twenty
two cents pound is the lowest this
man has received for fleece in dozen
years, while frequently he has re-
ceived thirty to thirty-fve cents
pound. The average yield from goat
is about four pounds, but eight to ten
pounds is frequently obtained from
high grade goats. The goats are not
only valuable for their fleece, but in
clearing off land. as they subsist large
ly on brush and weeds.
In the ice age the thickness of the
ice which covered northeastern Penn
sylvania mas been supposed to be great
enough to rise twenty-five hundred
feet above the sea level Until short
time ago no signs of glacial action had
been discovered at loftier elevation
than this, but Mr.. John C. Bravner has
explored Elk Mountain, which is be-
iieved to be the highest point in north
ern Pennsylvania, and there he found
scratches made by the ice at an alti-
tude of about twenty-seven hundred
feet. 1t is evident, therefore, that the
ice sheet which over spead this region
during the glacial epoch must have
been thicker than biologists have hith-
erto thought.
The True Gentleman.