The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1897-08-14
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

In 1885 gold pen manufacturing be-
gan in earnest and on 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 1892 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 the
fact that this year Washington will
make shipments of lumber aggregating
40O,O0O,OOO feet, Oregon 15O,OOo,0OO feet
and British Columbia 40,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 east
in one week 1,146,960 pounds of green
fruit, 2,363,s35 pounds of sun-cured
fruit, ST0,95O 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 sent
eastward this season. San Jose also
sent east SO, $50 pounds of garden seeds
during last week.
OF the human heart DIR. Ephraim
Cutter writes: 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 $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 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. He concludes by saving 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 a 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-
the difficulty of keeping
ether in hot climates. But DIR. Lam
der Brunton suggests that the gen
tral abstention from meat may be
another reason for the successful use
OF chloroform. He is led to this from |
the increased number of fatalities I'M
der chloroform in Edinburgh since the
of American and Austria |
Ian meats, which has made meat eating |
more common among all classes in !
Scotland.
DIR. Heubner, professor of the dis
sases of children in the University of |
Berlin, has published an important re-
port on the results of the serum treat
nent of diphtheria. The number of
leaths this year in Berlin, 434, was 200
ess than the average and 100 less than
II the most favorable year on record,
while the number of cases has in
The same observation has
,een made in London and Paris. The
reatment unquestionably facilitates
he casting off of exudations in the
'harynx and influences very favorably
he course of the fever. The serum is
innocuous. The probability
t the complete success of the treat
nent is increasing every month.