The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-10-18
SCIENCE AL INDUSTRY.

1t is said that less than one-half
the available water power of Maine is
now used for manufacturing purposes.
Active measures are being taken by
many towns to stimulate the construc-
ton of industrial plants.
Nothing could more conclusively
show that the Chinaman is indeed an
outside barbarian than the fact that
in the recent combats in Seoul the Chi
nese fired upon a japanese ambulance
carrying men who wore the Geneva
cross. They killed a doctor and some
hospital attendants.
The Thermogen is an appliance for
keeping up the temperature of pa
tient during an operation, doing away
with blankets and hot water bottles.
1t is in the form of a quilted cushion,
with an arrangement of fine wires in
side, by which any desired degree of
heat may be maintained by electricity
1t was exhibited at the last meeting of
the Royal society.
By the report of exports given by
the treasury department it is shown
that the trade in some metal goods is
rapidly increasing. The exports of
band. hoop and scroll iron have about
doubled within a year; cutlery about
90 per cent: railroad iron about $50 per
cent. and fire engines have jumped in
value from $75 to S14S.2S. Some de-
clines are noted in various articles, cut
nails and scales and balances being
prominent.
Bread, as daily article of food, is
used by only about one-third of the fif-
teen hundred millions that constitute
the present population of the earth.
In the coast districts of Spanish Amer
lea the staff of life is the banana, on
the Pampas dried beef, and in eastern
Asia rice either in the form of a soup
or thick Cruel 'He has eaten his last
rice" say the Chinese in anticipation of
a funeral.
An artificial cotton, said to be much
cheaper than the natural, is reported
from France 1t is made from the wood
of the pine, spruce or larch, which is
defbrated and then disintegrated and
bleached with hot solution of bi-sul-
phite of soda and chloride of lime. The
resulting pure cellulose is treated with
chloride of zinc, castor oil and gelatine,
and the paste is passed through per-
forated plate. This gives thread,
which is woven into presentable
fabric.
The woman's hospital in Seoul
the first of its kind there-had 2,765
patients during 1898; of these 119 were
hospital cases. 2.112 We're seen at the
dispensary. Five hundred and twenty
one cases were visited at their homes,
and many of these outside visits were
to women of the Weather class, as it
is not permissible for women of high
rank to be seen on the streets. but Occa-
sionally some were brought to the hos
pital in closed sedan chairs 1t is being
steadily more and more appreciated.
In new Psychological work by
Mr. E. A. Wallis Bulge it is regarded
as uncertain whether the art of
mummyfying originated with the abor-
iginal inhabitants of the lower Nile
valley, or was imported from Asia with
the first Aryan settlers The oldest
well preserved mummy which has been
identified is that of Seker-em-sa-f, b. c.
32OO king of the sixth dynasty. which
is now at Gizeh. Fragments at Unas
of the fifth dynasty are in the same col
lection. 1t is not known that mummy
cloths are all linen. none cotton, and
that one piece has $40 threads per inch
in the warp. and 40 in the wool.