The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1911-10-28
SCIENTIFIC AND
GENERAL.

. ltln us, 1880 NViihoho
The Amsterdam diamond trade is
in the hands of ten firms. employing
| l0, 900 workmen.
| over 100000 people left the Unit
ed Kingdom last year for Canada :he
United States and Australia.
The invention of magnifying glas
SEES is ascribed to one Alhazcn an AR
abian. in the year 1850 of our era
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The forestry service is conducting
active warfare against wolves, coy.
otes, wild cats, and similar predatory
animals.
Before a diamond has been dressed
1t passes through the hands of clGav-
er, turner, cutter, sawyer and polisher
The investigation of cold storage
abuses started in England and Is
likely to include the egg producing
countries of Europe.
Though Saxony has been a center
of civilization for long ages, one.
fourth of the area of the kingdom is
still covered with forests.
! chewing gum habit. A Hongkong firm
last year sold $4,000 worth of the Am.
erican manufactured article
Every inhabitant of Great Britain
and Ireland consumed last year i'm.
ported foods to the value of S270S-
at least, this was the average per
capita.
The Chinese are the only people in
the world who fish with an Undated
hook. The fish become impaled on
line of these hooks drawn through the
water.
The grapevine was brought from
the island of Crete, and introduced in.
to the Canaries in the fifteenth cen.
tury-the source of the famous wine
named for these islands.
|
In the procession on Labor day, in
New York, six men carried on their
shoulders a loaf of bread sixteen feet
long. Another big loaf, weighing 2OC
pounds, was drawn in wagon by a
pony.
There were in Argentina at the
close OF 1910 approximately 1873
miles of railways. as compared with
14,4S0 miles in 1909. 1t is estimated
that the length of the Argentine rail
ways in 1911 will be $500 miles.
Housing conditions in Amsterdam
among the wealthy are peculiar. Very
frequently men of large business at
fairs have their residence in their of
flee and warehouse buildings. These
homes front on the canals.
1t is a well settled fact that the
use OF the old fashioned phonograpf
with ear pieces was instrumental ir
stimulating the ear and thereby i'm
proving the hearing. The suggestion
contained here has been made use o
by firm of electrical manufacturers
who have made what Is termed al
ear drum message for use in SOM
kinds of deafness,
New Zealand's gold mines hav
come to be in the cows, and it's al
, because OF the milking machines. Ow
ing to the scarcity of labor there wa
, nothing in the dairy business for Ne,
Zealand until the milking machines a
q rived. Now the whole country is bein
turned into great dairy farm, an
the cows. next to sheep, are II
r greatest prosperity.
. Making two blades OF grass gro'
Q where only one grew before has bee
, outdone in the culture of silkwormn
in the Philippines. Ceylon silkworm
, which produced cocoons of brigt
a golden yellow, have been crossed wit
the Japanese breed, the result bein
.e pure white cocoon, giving crop {
silk nine times year, compared wit
is the usual two or three crops of III
Japanese and Chinese worms.
Id Going to school In New York Cii
means the movement OF large arm