The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1905-06-10

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.acic Acid as Food Personalities
Cause Indigestion Tantalum,
Most Refractory of Metals, Now
Used for Incandescent Lamp Eli
aments-Fruits and Vegetables Oh
Ancient Peruvians Seedless
AppIes of No Commercial Value.
BY CHARLES RICHARDS DODGE.
&Member Of National Geographical So
ciety, Chevalier Legion GHonneur Oh
France, Formerly Editor OF
Outing Etc.)
copyright, 1905, by Joseph B. Bowies)
Swiftly following the merry wal OF
words, pro and con in regard to the
introduction of the metric system into
this country, N the statement that
the post Office department is now coh-
sidering the early adoption OF the sys-
tenn,
Prof. R. H. Chittenden says that we
qea too much. AS a summary or the
result of his long series OF nutrition
experiments, with professional men,
athletes and soldiers, he states that
the amount of proteid or albumlnous
food needed daily for the actual physl-
illogical wants of the body is not more
than one-half tha ordinarily consumed
by the average man.
The bureau of chemistry OF the
United States department OF agrlcul-
tire has been examining dress goods,
stockings, upholstery, draperles, car
pets, fur goods and rugs, sold on the
American market, for arsenic content.
The results of the analyses show that
entirely too large a percentage OF the
dress goods, furs and fur rugs, sold on
,the American market, contain eX-
lcessive amounts of arsenic which are
dangerous to health, but that the
amount of arsenic in pillow covers
hangings, carpets, etc., is in the main
satisfactory.
The state university and school Of
mines of North Dakota is to nave
meteorological and pathological lab
oratory, the cost to be met by state
funds. the bill having just past the
legislature.
The two leading cordage ibers
manila hemp from the Philippine
and sisal hemp from Yucatan, were
imported into this country last yea
to the value of over $25, 900, 900. From
Hawaii, where the sisal hemp indus
try has recently been established
ffbers to the value of over $4,000 wer'
imported last year.
Experiments in forcing plants wit
ether and chlOrOform, which haVe pee
going on for some tine in the govern
ment botanical garden, Dresden, shoV
that plant growth is fastened abou
a month by the use of ether.
The application of Paris green as a
aid to controlling the cotton-bo
weevil is shown to be of no avail, an
experiments have proved hat the pc
:sistent use of this substance does nc
materially reduce the number {
weevils, or increase the yield of co
ton.
A .Japanese official from the S
Louis exposition, who recently V1slte
Washington. made the statement tn;
experiments are in progress in Japa
toward the introduction of machlr
processes in the preparation OF tea,
supersede present hand methods.
has already been established that II
use of machinery will reduce the co
of production one-half.
! The marvellous story of Japan's COZ
mercial advancement, since the restor
ton. is told by Yukimasa Hattori,
a recent contribution to the Jon
HOPKINS university political sclen
series: ''The Foreign Commerce
Japan" In 1868 Japan's imports a
exports amounted to 100000 ye
in 1880, 10, 1000, 900 yen; in 1890, IA
OcO, 900 yen, and from that year
nv leaps and bounds until, in 49,
the sum reached 491, 100000 yen.
In about the same period the popu
ton has increased from 100000
1872 to "A. 900, 900 in 1900, an incres
of over SO per cent. The nation
wealth of the country amounts to
O90, UUU, UUU yen, 1dAu OClA5 = 0O"A
a valuation of 10000, 100000 ye
buildings at 1919, 100000 yen; fur
ture and works of art, 7SS, 000, 600 yt
mines, 405, 600, 900 yen; railways, tie
graphs and %aqueducts, 90.000,0OO y
the remaining wealth being distribu
among live stock, shipping, mar
products, capital, specie and bulii
etc.
Probably the toughest, finest f:
most satiny paper in the world is
ganpi, a Japanese paper made from
bark of a small tree growing wild
that country. The demand for the
per is so great that the trees prod
ing it are being rapidly killed
Examples of this paper are conn
anouoh in the limited States as a 81