The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-01-18
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

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100000 bales of cotton and cuts every
year 200, 900, 900 feet of lumber.
, Iowa produces s365, O0O 600 of farm
products every year. The corn crop
reaches 322. 900, 600 bushels; wheat, 81
100000; oats, sO,OOO,9OO; potatoes, TO-
100000
"A new process of making rain was
recently brought before the Academic
DIES Sciences, Paris, by M. Baudoiny/
His theory is that electricity maintains
the water in clouds in state of small
drops and that if electricity be disc
charged the water will come down. !
Colorado has 100000 acres under
artificial TX. cation. The farm prod
ucts exceed $12, 900, 600 a year; there
are 1900, 900 cattle, 10000 900 sheep; the
coal fields cover 40,000 square miles;
the supplies of marble, granite and
other building stone are ineXhaustible.
1t may be doubted, says an English
writer, whether our measurement of
animal courage has yet been suffi-
GENTLY extended, for there appear in
stances in which the acts of daring are
prompted by a sense of obedience, of
discipline, and even of duty-something
similar in kind to that which marks
and distinguishes the highest forms of
courage in man.
"A novel kind of cab has lately been
tried in Berlin. In appearance it is not
unlike a large bath chair with two.
seats, and is propelled by petroleum
naphtha motor. 1t has three wheels,
and carries only two persons, including
the driver. The motor is of nearly two
horse power, and produces on good
roads, speed of about eleven miles an
hour.
Sir Charles Lyall, basing his esti-
mate on notifications of certain spe-
cies of marine life, assigned $40, 900, 900
years as the required length of geo.
logic time, Darwin claimed 200, 900, 600
years; Crowell, about ~, 600, 600; Geikie,
from 100000 upward; Alexander
Winchell, but 8, 900, 900; McGee, Upham
and other recent authorities claim from
100 600. 600 up to $50, 000, 900 years.
1t is said by an Indian botanist that
some plants can see. This is as start
ling as the statement made some time
ago, and now conclusively demon
strated, that certain plants have the
sense of touch. Experiments have
shown that plants have a tendency to
grow towards supports placed at
little distance from them, and will
even grow away from the light in
order to reach objects about which
they may Irvine themselves.
-Polygonum sakhalie is the name
of a forest plant from the island of
Sakhalien, Japan, of which fattering
accounts are given by NJ. Doumet
Adanson who has cultivated few
stools of it in France. He got it as an
ornamental plant, and it is really very
handsome. 1t grows to be about six
feet high in three weeks; produces a
considerable foliage of which cattle
are fond; and yields good second crop
after the first cutting. A section of
root planted will produce stool cover
ing a square meter of surface. 1t
takes care of itself.-Popular Science
Monthly.
Liquid chlorine is now being pre-
pared on large scale in Europe for
use in chemical work. The gas is,
liquified by a spec1ar form of pump,
and is kept or transported in iron or
steel cylinders, which themselves weigh
about 100 Kilograms and hold fifty kilo-
grams of liquid chlorine, equivalent to
about 10, 900 liters of chlorine gas. The
density of the liquid chlorine is about
1888; at Is degrees c. its pressure is six
Kilograms: at So degrees C. it is ten at
mospheres. The cylinders are tested
for more than 100 atmospheres.
The English coal strike extended
over twelve weeks; it kept $50, 900 men
out of employment and reduced tens of
thousands of families to restitution;
the loss in miners wages alone is COM
puted at 500, 500 600 and the loss in in
dustries dependent upon coal mining
is put at s23, 800 600; the miners funds
exhausted by the fight amounted to
81, 500, 900 and the public charity was
drawn upon to the extent of So, 800, 900.
These losses together amounted to
$50, 600, 900, and it is said that the loss
of manufacturers and mine owners
profits and the indirect injury to trade
would bring the total up to $3.50, 900, 900.