The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-04-21


New York is tho first manufactur
ing city in the country. It has 11,0oe
factories which make every year $780,.
oo0, 600 worth Of goods. including $50.
o0o, 900 Of clothing, $35, oo0, 900 of books
and papers. and s14 o0o. 900 Of cigars
Central park covers se2 acres and cost
ga, ooo. 900.
Il Chicago has over thirty elevators
which handle 140, 900. 600 bushels Of
grain every year. The Union STOCK
yards cover $50 acres and cost 8, 0oo,-
coo. They have eight miles Of streets
and receive 5000, 900 head of stock
every year. The meat exports exceed
500, 600. 600.
On the Andes, in latitude two de-
grees, the limit of perpetual snow Is
IA, 80 feet In Mexico. latitude nine
teen degrees. the limit is 1880 feet;
on the peak of Teneriffs. 11,454 feet:
on Mt. Etna, 5000 feet; on Caucasus,
2, 800 feet; on the Pyrenses, 8, 400 feet;
in Lapland. $500 feet; in Iceland, 2, So
feet.
M. Gaulp, writing to . Paris publ
cation from Russia, says that the cul-
tivation Of cotton in the Zarafshan
district of that country has developed
wonderfully since American varieties
OF the plant have been introduced. At
first the natives were so prejndiced
against the new plants that the expert
ment failed.
Chicago manufactures every year
sl6,ooo.oOo of agricultural implements.
s., 900, 900 Of carriages, ss.ooe, 900 Of fur
niture, 50, ooe. 600 Of clothing, %. 500. ooo
of leather, $50, 900, 900 Of iron and steel
SIS, 000. 900 Of planed lumber. %, 5oo, o0e
Of malt liquors, %, So, 600 Of distilled
liquors, %. coo, 900 Of soap. Is, eeo, 900 OF
tobacco and cigars, $4,000. 900 Of cut
stone.
"A celestial body is said to be
eclipsed when it is immersed in the
shadow Of another. Thus . lunar
eclipse is caused by the moon entering
the shadow of the earth. Jupiter's sat
elites are frequently collapsed by pass
ing through the shadow cast by their
primary. A solar eclipse il due to the
interposition Of the moon between the
sun and earth, and the phenomenon is
strictly an occultation, but the former
term is retained for convenience.
The Massachusetts, State Board Of
Health concludes, from Investigations
of artificial ice. that artificial processes
of freezing concentrate the impurities
of the water in the inner core of the
portion last frozen; that the impurities
are least if distilled water is used; that
the number Of bacteria in artificial ice
is Insignificant under the prevailing
methods of manufacture, and that the
amount of zinc found in ice is INSULT
cient to cause injury from its use.
Micro organisms are present in the
air, the water and the earth. They
are not only on the earth, but the
upper layers of terrestrial crust are
teeming with them. They are carried
by the atmosphere as dust, and de-
posted upon the surface of all objects
They exist in vast numbers upon and
in the human body. They are present
with the body in life, and do not leave
it in death until it is resolved into the
elements. Hence there can be no doubt
but they are An important factor in
nature.
"A mining expert sent to investi-
gate some Arizona properties for Den
yer capitalists reports the finding Of
most remarkable bridge formed by .
tree of agatized wood, spanning a
canyon forty-fve feet in width. The
tree had at some remote time fallen |
and become embedded in tho silt OF |
some great inland sea or mighty water
overflow. The slit in time became |
and the wood gradually |
passed through the stages Of minerali-
zation, until it is now a wonderful tree |
Of solid agate. In after years, water
washed and ate away the sandstone |
until canyon forty-five feet in width |
has been formed, the hint-like sub
stance of the agatized wood having
resisted the erosion of the waterfowl