Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1895-04-04
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

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Opposition to the. use Of anti-toxine
treatment for diphthcria has already
taken an organized form in England.
q deputation, headed by Lord Cole.
ridge, has protested to the authorities
against its use in the hospitals on the
ground that public money ought not
to be devoted to experiments in ,.sy-
chology.''
England consumes 100000 pounds
or about 100000 gallons of tea every
da.y, which is as much as is used by the
rest OF Europe, North and South Amer.
lea, Africa and Australia combined.
The green tea of the former days has
almost ceased to be known. while the
Twankay, Hyson and gunpowder teas
are seldom heard from. China only
supplies one-twelfth Of the quantity,
the rest coming from India and Cey-
lon. The Indian tea goes half as far
again as the Chinese, as regards color
and flavor.
"A ripe apple is one Of the easiest
foods for the stomach to deal with, the
whole process Of digestion only con-
summing eighty-fve minutes. The malic
acid OF ripe apples, cooked or raw,
helps to digest meat and to stimulate
the liver and neutralize those noxious
matters which, unless eliminated, pro-
duce skin eruptions. Apples are not as
satisfying as potatoes, because of their
delicate elements, but eaten with meat
In place Of tubers they are golden food.
There are now about 400 blast fur
naces standing idle in Great Britain
that will never be put into blast again,
and 126 finished iron works that will
probably never. be worked again, says
Ryland's Iron Trade Circular. It adds:
"We are inclined to think that the
present stagnation is nothing else than
temporary, and that good times will
again appear. We have fewer works,
but their capacity for production, espe.
cially the blast furnaces Of the king.
dom, has largely increased. The iron
trade has shifted from some localities
toanother."
Net railway earnings for 1894 are
not encouraging. Gross earnings of
1873 railroads for the year are 1885,, $685.
es3 and net s267 ,O7s, s72, decrease re-
spectively Of III and Ill per cent from
1898. In 1893 similar comparison
showed a decrease of 1.6 per cent. in
gross and 3.4 per cent. in net. The
best showing is made by the eastern
railroads, which show the only gain
s5 per cent.-over 1893. OF the roads
showing decreases the best exhibit is
made by the southern roads, de-.
crease of less than I per cent. The
Southwestern and Pacific roads make
the poorest showing, 25.s and 1913 per
cent decrease. -Bradstreet's.
The influence of diet on the growth
of hair has often been discussed. It
has been shown that starchy mixtures.
milk and many other foods recognized
as being highly nutritious, are, in fact,
sure death to hair growth. Chemical
analysis proves that the hair is
composed of per cent. of sulphur aud
its ash; Of 20 per cent. of silicon and 10
per cent. of iron and manganese. The
foods which contain the larger per
cent. Of the above named elements are
meat, oatmeal and graham. Henry
pointedly says: Nations which eat
most meat have the most hair"
The Deadwood Times, in speaking
of the mining resume for 1894, says:
1.-THE Black Hills have made rapid
strides to the front rank as q producer
Of the precious metals We have no
statistics of the gross output nor is it
possible to obtain them. The great
majority Of the producing mines are
owned by individuals or close corpora
tions who never give publicity to their
affairs. 1t is safe to say that the Black
Hills during the past twelve months
have produced between five and six
million dollars in gold alone. Divi-
dends have been regular and promptly
paid by the larger corporations, the
Homestake Company alone distributing
$500, 900 in this manner to its stock
holders"
Everybody is familiar with. the no
ton that widely prevails among the
peasantry of all countries, that cats
''suck the breath" of infants, if they
can get near them in cradles or on
beds; but we seldom hear of any actual
fatal results. Lately the journals con-
tanned an instance where cat had laid
herself down across an infants head,
while the mother was soundly sleeping,
and, naturally, the child had died of
suffocation. There is certain lido
syncracy against cats, producing in
persons of a peculiar temperament
''cat asthma" and one old Arab physi-
clan says the propinquity of the cat
produces emaciation and phthisis.