The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1895-11-23
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

lin 1895 gold pen manufacturing be-
gan in earnest and On considerable
scale In America, being fnaugurated in
New York by Levi Brown.
When hat making was introduced
into America is not certainly known,
but in 1892 the industry had become 20
extensive that English hat makers COM
planned bitterly that not only could
they not sell their hats in America, but
that American hats were actually sold
in England.
The enormous extent Of the for
csts, and also of the lumber industries,
OF the northwest is indicated by the
fact that this year Washington will
make shipments of lumber aggregating
40O,000,000 feet, Oregon $4,000, 900 feet
and British Columbia 100000 900 feet.
And there is no danger of the supply
running short.
San Jose, one of the principal Cali
fornia fruit-shipping points, sent east
in one week 1.146, ,96O pounds of green
fruit, 2,363, 1875 pounds of sun-cured
fruit, 870,95O pounds Of canned fruit
and Al, 900 gallons of wine and brandy.
During the same time Fresno shipped
east 40 car loads of raisins, making
about $50 car loads of this fruit sent
eastward this season. San Jose also
sent east 53,2s0 pounds of garden seeds
during last week.
OF the human heart DR.. Ephraim
Cutter writes: II have listened to the
heart sounds of one woman and one
man, both over 80 years of age, with
feelings of awe, and have thought how
wonderful it was that these hearts had
pulsated SO long, propelling blood
through vessels which if possible to
be ranged in one line would on a very
moderate estimate reach twice around
the earth, or $4,000 miles, with leeway
for the average red disc of one-forty-
eight-thousandth of an inch!"
The antitoxin discoveries have in
fused the greatest amount of activity
into the labors of the psychologists of
Europe, and correspondent of the
Sun writes to warn young Americans
that, for the present, they had best stay
at home, for the eminent men of the old
country are too much engrossed with
their own original Investigations to
have time for imparting instructions to
others. He concludes by saying that
s'the scientific men of to-day who are
making Investigations in bacteriology
are as feverish as were the prospectors
for gold in California half century
ago."
Ether is preferred as an anaesthetic
in northern countries and chloroform
in the south, although ether tends to
cause secretion in the air passages and
bronchial trouble. One cause is un-
doubtedly the difficulty of keeping
ether in hot climates. But DR.. Lam
der Brunton suggests that the gen
eral abstention from meat may be
another reason for the successful use
of ch1oroform. He is led to this from
the increased number of fatalities un-
der chloroform in Edinburgh since the
introduction of American and Austria
Ian meats, which has made meat eating
more common among all classes in
Scotland.
DIR. Heubner, professor of the dis
eases of children in the University OF
Berlin, has published an important re-
port on the results of the serum treat
ment of diphtheria. The number OF
deaths this year in Berlin, 434, was 200
less than the average and 100 less than
in the most favorable year on record,
while the number of cases has in
creased. The same observation has
been mode in London and Paris. The
treatment unquestionably facilitates
the casting off of exudations in the
pharynx and influences very favorably
the course of the fever. The serum is
perfectly innocuous. The probability
Of the complete success of the treat
ment is increasing every month.