The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-12-05
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

| Mr.. w. l.. Dallas reports that the
observations of twenty-five years, made
in the Bay of Rengal by the Indian gov
ernment meteorologists, have shown
that the average temperature rises
during years that sun spots are numer-
| Gus, and sinks when they are few.
! When the number of sun spots ex-
| ceeded the average, the barometric
pressure was less than its average.
Mr.. NJ. S. Bembrey fuds by expert
ment that increase of temperature
around a warm-blooded animal lessons
| its output of carbon dioxide to a re-
markable degree, and diminution of
temperature increases it. The reverse
is true of cold-blooded animals. Up to
the twenty-frst day developing chick
reacts like a cold-blooded animal, and
after that like a m-blooded-
according TO French statistician,
there We're in 1893 $1,000 breweries in
the world. Germany heads the list
with 26,24O, and England comes next
with 12,S74 breweries. The United
States is third with $500 breweries,
Austria with ,942 breweries. Belgium
has l.210 breweries and France i,Oi4.
The annual allowance of beer per head
of population in Bavaria is 22l iters;
In England, 143: in the United States,
81; in Sweden. II, and in Russia ).
AT the recent meeting of the Amerl-
can Association for the Advancement
of Science in Brooklyn, Mr.. 4. Springer
entertained the chemists and physicists
OF the section with the music Of a vio-
lin made of aluminium instead of wood
in the paper he read. It was asserted
that such instruments had the advant-
age of wooden ones in that they would
neither warp nor crack. and that they
lacked the uncertainty and lack OF in
dividuality common to the latter.
"A writer in The English Mechanic
states that he wrecked the web Of the
geometrieal or garden spider (Epeiral
in sitting down, when she in moment
devoured the whole of the wreclfage,
taking great pains 10 leave not
wrack behind save the one strand which
formed her only path during the feast. "
and asks If this proceeding is a rule or
exception in spider life His query is
answered by another correspondent
who says that IL IS common practice
with spiders 10 eat up their waste web.
The French Academy Of Medicine
has taken up tie question 81 the health
tulness OF bicycling and At a recent
meeting decided 70 investigate The sub
Jet thoroughly. Besides number of
sudden deaths from heart disease as
cribed 70 the practice, cases were re
ported Of tuberculosis bang reswsk-
ened by cycling and OF vertebral dis
ease The academy resolved ursni-
mously that till the results Of the IN
quiry are known. the use of the
bicyclette safety should he permitted
only after a careful medical exanains-
ton of the individual"
From February 70 August Of this
year 800 cases OF true diph;heria were
treated in the chud-en's hospital il
Paris by Dr. Rorx's antitoKin method
OF these : died. OF - per cent. which
must bc cont-as.ed with the mortality
% 20 per cent common before the
treatment was used " 20 cs.es O
without other compilations
? died. Of whom were 50 II when al
Tritted % the hospital that The remedy
had not time - act Ia the more severe
cases. where The lsrynT was affected.
- PER cent ~ those who we're traat4d
with antitoxin died. and - r.er cent
died cf those who were not - trea-a--