Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1895-12-27
SCIENCE ANo INDUSTRY.

In 1885 gold pen manufacturing be-
gan i'll earnest and on a considerable
scale in America, being inaugurated in
New IC1k :, levi brown.
-Wh"E ".at making was introduced
into America is not certainly known.
but in IT, Tic industry had E2come SO
cXten&.y" l!:"t English hat malciscom-
planned bitterly that not only could
thcy not sell their hats in America, but
that American hats were actually sold
in England.
The extent of the for
csts, and also of the lumber Industries,
Of the northwest is indicated by the
fact h a this year Washington will
make shipments of lumher aggregating
400, ,0G0 feet, Oregon $780, 600 feet
and British Columbia 100000 600 feet
And there is NJ danger of the supply
running short.
San Jose, one of the principal Cali
fornia fruit-shipping points, sent east
in one week 1,14G,9G0 pounds of green
fruit, 2,363,S35 pounds of sun-cured
fruit, S7O,950 pounds of canned fruit
and $4,000 gallons of wine and brandy.
During the same time Fresno shipped
east 40 car loads of ~raisins, making
abou $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 DR.. Epllraim
Cutter writes: 81 lave listened to the
heart ounds of one woman and one
man, both over 90 years of ago, with
feelings of awe, and have Thought how
wonderful it was that these !.carts had
puisated SO long. prorcllirg blood
through vessels which If r1asibic to
lie ranged in one line would on i very
moderate estimate reach twice around
the earth, or 4S,GC0 niles. viz. Il ~lccyvay
Tor The average rcd disc Of 0re-forty-
ctSht-thouSandth Of an irch!"
The antitoXin disco:.ricS have in
fused the greatest amouut OF activity
into the lahOrs of the h"c."":Dior.StS of
Europe, and n corrcsi'c:|r!'c of the
sun writes to waYn ,,@"UI -tm..viranS
that. for tn" present, they h. hEect stay
at home, for the em;ncr+ rec Ct ~" old
country n" too much crrit> 4"d with
their own "originaI. INVESTIGATIONS" 10
have time for imparting Instructions to
others. lie concludes hy saying tilat
1.-THE scientific men of to-day WHO are
making Investigations in bactrriology
are as fcverish as were the p~Iospectors
for gold in California half u 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-
doubtcdly the difficulty of keeping
ether i'll hot climates. But DIR. Lam
dcr Ernnton suggests that the gen.
cTal a~bStcntion from meat may be
another reason for the successful use
of chloroform. He is led to his from
the increased number of fatal. ties I'M
der chloroform in Edinburgh since the
lntro3uc ion of American and Austria
Ian !. cts, which has made meat eating
more common among all classes in
Scotland.
DR.. Hcubner, 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
mcnt of diphthcria. The number OF
deaths this year III 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 i'm,
creased. The same observation has
been made in London and Paris. The
treatment unquestionabIy facilitates
the casting off of cxudations in the
pharynX and Influences very favorably
the course of the fever. The serum is
perfectly innocuous. The probability
OF the SUCCESS of the trent
ment is increasing every month.
A Considcrnte Man.