The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-12-22
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

1t is proposed to make the port OF
Bristol, England, accessible to Trans
Atlantic vessels at ali times by dam
ming the River Avon at its mouth and
using locks. According to the plans OF
the engineers a constant depth of
t~hirty-two feet can be obtained and
the necessary docks and breakwaters
constructed for 81, 600, 900.
An adult specimen of the sole, if
teen inches long with symmetrical
eyes, has been found on the British coast.
1t was as usual in all respects except
that the left eye had retained its posi-
ton on the left side of the head, and
was nearly opposite to the right seye.
The colors were normal, the right side
being brown, and the left side white.
Bread, as a daily article of food, is
used by only about one-third of the tif-
teen hundred millions that constitute
the present population of the earth. In
the coast districts of Spanish America
the staff of life is the banana, on the
Pampas dried beef, and in Eastern Asia
rice, either in the form of soup or thick
cruel. HE has eaten his last rice"
say the Chinese in anticipation OF n
funeral.
The color of leaves is affected by
light. but this does not hold true OF
flowers. Last winter a blue hyacinth
found itself under a fiat stone six inches
beneath the surface. As it could not
reach the light, it developed leaves and
flowers under the stone. The leaves
were blanched as white as the stalk of
celery, but the flowers took on the
natural deep blue 1t is said the same
results attend when the hyacinth
blooms in 4 dark cellar.
The quantity of food products
raised in the southern states increases
each year. 1t is conceded that more
southern planters will feed their stock
and their families from home-raised
food this winter than at any time since
the war. This statement applies n
general to the southern states, but es-
pecially to North Carolina, whence the
report comes that there is more home
raised bacon and beef in the local mar
kets than ever before in the history of
the statc.-Baltimore Herald.
A. p. Anderson, of the State uni
versity of Minnesota, by a long series
of experiments, finds the pumpkin does
most of its growing after : o'clock in
the evening, and diminishes its activity
as the sun rises and begins to act upon
the leaves. From 9 o'clock in the
morning until 3 o'clock in the after
.oo- +hn rrnirbt nf tha frI,it lImIn-
ishcs, owing to the evaporation of
water from the leaves of the plant.
The general results show that when
the fruit grows most the vine grows
least. and vice versa.
Nearly all the Greenland glaciers
and tongues from the internal ice cap
terminate in vertical faces from n
hundred to one thousand feet high,
presenting facilities for investigation.
The vertical faces reveal pronounced
qualification on the basal ice, even
earth materials in the bases carried by
the ice being arranged in layers. Fine
Nominations were seen, twelve or TWEEN
ty to an inch. The layers are some
times twisted and contorted. and even
Showed over each other. The glacier
movement at the ice border is a foot
per day to a foot per week.
There is a whole" milk treatment
as well as a skim milk cure, and an adj
vocate of the former says hat a patient
requires from five to six quarts daily
while confined to bed, and from one to
four quarts more when working. To
digest all this. free action of the skin,
lungs and other organs must be Sc
cured by daily warm baths and an un-
limited supply of fresh air night and
day. Under this treatment the heart
quickens, the alimentary canal en-
larges and it's glands increase in size
and number, and the arteries enlarge
and furnish to all parts of the body an
increased supply of blood. A patient
with a supposed mortal disease was
cured under this treatment between
July Is and October IS, and during
that time increased in weight from log
pounds to 100 pounds IA ounces