The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1896-01-04
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

In 1885 gold pen manufacturing be-
gan in earnest and on considerable
scale in America, being inauguratcd in
New York by Levi Brown.
When hat making was introduced
into America is not certainly known,
but in 1882 the Industry had become SO
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 tho
fact that this year Washington Will
make shipments of lumber aggrcgatinT
400,0o0,00o feet, Oregon 150.C00GO0 feel
and British Columbia 100000 fect.
And there is no danger of the supply
running short
San Jose. one of the principal Cali
fornia fruit-shipping points, sent cast
in one week 1,14G,960 pounds Of green
fruit, 2,363,S3 pounds of suE-curcd
fruit, s70,950 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
about $50 car loads of this fruit sem
eastward this season. San Jose also
sent cast $3.50 pounds of garden seeds
during last week.
OF the human heart DIR. Ephraim
Cutter writes: II have listened to the
heart sounds of one woman and ono
man, both. over 80 years of age, with
feelings of awe, and have thought how
wonderful it was that these hearts had
pulsatcd so long. propclling blood
through vessels which if possible to
be ranged in ono line would on 4 very
moderate estimate reach twice around
the earth, or $4,000 miles, with lcewsy
for the average red disc of onc-forty-
eight-thousandth of an inch!"
The antitoxin discoveries have in
fused the greatest amount of activity
into the labors of the bacteriologists of
Europe, and a 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 engrosced with
their own original Investigations" TO
have time for imparting instructions to
others lie concludes by. saying that
the scientific mcf of to-day who arc
making Investigations in bactcriolo~y
arc as fcyerish as were the prospcctors
for gold in California half century
ago"
Ether is preferred as an anaesthctic
.. Il
in the south, although ether tends TO
cause secretion in the air passages and
bronchial trouble. One cause is un-
ooubteclly the difficulty of keeping
ether in hot climates. But DIR. Ian.
der Brunton suggests that the gen
cral abstention from meat may be
another reason for the successful use
of chloroform. lie 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 III the University of
Berlin, has published an important re-
port on the results of the serum treat
mcnt of diphtheria. The number of
deaths this year in Berlin, 434, was 200
less than the average and 100 less tEan
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 unqucstionably 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 complete success of the treat
ment is increasing every month.