The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-11-13
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

I'm 1885 gold pen manufacturing be-
gan in earnest and on a considerable
scale in America, being inaugurated IN
New York by Levi Brown.
When hat making was introduced
into America Is not certainly known,
but in 1882 the industry had become 30
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
ests, and also of the lumber industries,
Of tho northwest is indicated by the
fact that this year Washington will
make shipments of lumber aggregating
zoe, o00, 900 feet, Oregon $4,000, 900 feet
and British Columbia 4o,0o0,0o 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,o $50 pounds of green
fruit, 2,363,s35 pounds Of sun-cured
fruit, sTo.e5O pounds Of canned fruit
ind 1000 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 $3.50 pounds of garden seeds
during last week.
OF the human heart Or. Ephraim
Cutter writesr 81 have listened to the
heart sounds Of one woman and one
man, both over 90 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 a, 900 miles. with leeway
for the average red disc of one-forty-
eight-thousandth of an inchi"
The antitoxin discoveries have In
fused the greatest amount of activity
into the labors Of the psychologists Of
Europe, and q 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
''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 tho south, although ether tends to
cause secretion in the air passages and
bronchial trouble. One cause is un-
aoubtedly the difficulty of keeping
rther In hot climates. But DIR. Ian
der Brunton suggests that the gen.
eral abstention from meat may be
another reason for the successful use
of chloroform. he is led to this from
the increased number of fatalities un-
der chloroform in Edinburgh since the
introduction OF American and Austria
liam meats, which has made meat eating
moro common among all classes in
Scotland.
DR.. 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 made in London and Paris. The
treatment unquestionably facilitates
the casting OFF of exudations in the
pharynX and influences very favorabiy
the course of the fever. The serum is
perfectly innocuous. The probability
Of the complete success of the treat