Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1896-08-19
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.


In 1888 gold pen manufacturing be-
gan in earnest and on q considerable
scale in America, being inaueurated in
New York by Levi Brown.
When hat making was introduced
into America is not certainly known,
but in 1882 the industry had bceome 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 the
fact that this year Washington will
make shipments of lumber aggrcgatino.
aco,oeo,coo feet, Oregon $50, COG, 900 feet
and British Columbia 4o,ooo.ooo feet.
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,l46,9Go pounds of green
fruit, 2,363,S35 pounds of sun-curcd
fruit, sTo,95o pounds of canned fruit
and 447,ooo 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 DIR. Ephrain
Cutter writes: II 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 Garth, or $4,000 miles, with Il 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 bacteriologists 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. lie concludes by saying that
the scientific men of to-day who are
making Investigations in bacteriolo,-y
are as fcverish as were the prospectors
for gold in California half century
ago"
Ether is preferred as an anacsthetic
in northern countries and chloroform
in the south, although ether tends to
.ause secretion in the air passages and
bronchial trouble. One cause is uu-
loubtcdly the difficulty of keeping
,ther in hot climates. But DR.. Lam
der Brunton suggests that the gen
cral abstcntion 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 III
Scotland.
DIR. lIeubncr, 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 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 PROFESSIONALLY facilitates
the casting Off of cxudations in the
pharynN and influences very favorably
the course of the fever. The serum is
perfectly innocuous. The probability
ment is increasing every month.