The Van Buren press., 1894-04-14
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

Dartments in France, tne toVaA nuu uoo
Of mines or workings in activity being
about sixty. The total production OF
iron ore OF all kinds is about 2,boo, oou
tons year, the average value OF when
at the place of production Is given 81
8k rancs.-Engineering Magazine.
-Galvani's discovery OF the motion
Of frogs legs on the application oi
certain metals was accidental. Madame
was III and the doctor prescribed frog
soup. The frogs had been skinned and
laid on the table in her husband's
laboratory, where, by chance, they
came in contact with some OF his ap'
paratus.
in the higher attitudes OF North
Carolina, though relatively dry and
eouable, the variations of tempera'
ture, says DR.. A. N. Bell, amount 10
twenty degrees between day and
night requiring special care on the
part Of invalids in regard to clothing
adapted to the change on the going
down Of the sum-"
The French wine crop OF 1898 was
very superior. both in quantity and
quality, notwithstanding the great
drouth. The total product Is officially
reported at 40, $780, 900 hectoliters, or
1,Oo5, 60O 900 gallons, exclusive OF the
crop of Corsica and Algeria. 1t exceeds
by 20, 700 600 hectoliters, or 459, 500, O0o
gallons, the crop OF 1899, and by still
greater excess the average OF the last
ten years.
DR.. Paul GARNER, OF Paris, has
made a special study OF those slum
children that are the offspring ct ha-
bitual drunkards. He says: There is
O flaw in the very nature OF these
young wretches that the psychologist
sees clearly and notes with apprehen-
sion-the absence OF affectionate emo
tions, and where they did not become
lunatics they show insensibility and
pitilessness.
Three patients in New York's great
charity hospital took smallpox from
association with an obscure case that
was allowed to spend the last week OF
his life there. The true diagnosis was
made on the dissecting table, but it is
said, in defense of the doctors who
didn't discover the smallpox when
the man was alive, that he had devel-
oped SO many of the most manifest
symptoms Of great-pox as to compli'
cate the case and obscure the symp.
toms of the smallpox.
The United States coast survey
steamer Hassler is vessel with his
tory. She was built for surveying the
route from Panama to San Francisco
and Prof. Louis Agassiz, with a mum
Der of scientific companions, was al
lowed by the government to take pas
sage on the vessel and make observa
tions and collections during her voyage
around Cape Horn to the Pacific coast
She left Boston on her maiden trip in
December, 1871, and arrived at Sar
Francisco the next August. The zoo
logical collections made at that time
were large and added much to the
knowledge of scientists
The production of pig iron in Ger
many in 1898, as reported by Stahl unt
Eisen, was 4, 953, 14s metric tons, an in
crease of 100, las tons over that OF 1899
which was 4,793,0O tons The yeal
was not very favorable one for thu
German ironmasters, who have had {
comparatively light demand and a con
sequent tendency to lower prices t.
contend with, and apparently no re-
ductions in costs have been effected tt
balance the account While last veal
| ehouod op1y emall iucraaca in pro
duction, however, the German iron out
put has grown rapidly of recent year
from 1,614, 900 tons in 1877 to 4,933,
900, or over three times as much, II
1s92-and promises to increase still
more.-Engineering and Mining Jour
nal.
The exports Of iron and steel from
Great Britain in 1898 were 2,SS4,27
tons (of 2,24O pounds), an increase O
144,062 tons, or 5.3 per cent over 1892
The exports were made up as follows
Pig iron, S39, 800 tons; rails, 55S, S26 tons
hoops, sheets and plates, 1875, $40 tons
bars, angles and rods, 14S, 931 tons iron
cast or wrought. $50, 57S tons; steel, un
wrought, 1859, 764 tons; tinplates, 379, 90
tons; wire, 3S, 1877 tons; old iron, 49,
tons; man ufactures of iron and stee
1871 531 tons. Imports of iron and stee
in 1898 were 297, ,773 tons, a decrease c
1854 tons, or IL per cent. from 1S9.
The imports OF iron ore in 1898 wer
4,O65, s63 tons, being 2s7,21o tons or T..
per cent. greater than in 1892. Eng
neering and Mining Journal.