Show fe science AND INDUSTRY the annual product of maple sugar in the united states spates is estimated at forty million pounds Cli ristian at worl work one fi nna n n of ars in london is said to make envelopes it ail day ay i 1 Accordi according nm 0 to one estimate the oran orange ire industry of florida has increased tenfold ten fold in ill five years more than six billion pounds of fish were brought to the wharves of I 1 portsmouth N H durin during tho the past winter bishin fishing season I 1 A 1 rochester astronomer states that he lias has ob observed servell that dur during duricic itic e solar disturbances tur bances there are many sudden deaths from paralysis and apoplexy an english company has perfected its arrangements for providing sick i chambers wit with it telephones the object is to give persons suf suffering ferin from con diseases a chance to talk with their friends speaking 0 tubes are anad on oil account of the infectious nature of the breath boston bud budget act accordia Ac according cordin to astronomers we may expect tile the appearance of the star of of bethlehem this year which will be the sixth time since tile birth of christ the star is said to appear directly north of the north norih star and to be visible in its dazzling light 0 at noonday it is a I 1 solar orb alan many y times the magnitude ol of our sun whose orbit is yet uncalculated by lily any astronomer and I 1 it is the most marvelous of tho the celestial phenon phenomena leria indianapolis journal of carbons burned daily in the electric li lights used in the united states are manufactured in cleveland 0 six years ago ago 0 all the carbons burned in this country were made in a single room in in boston now there are twenty carbon furnaces in cleveland Clevelan alolu dalone the carbons are made elli chiefly efly of the residuum of oil af after ter it has been refined relin cd but the deposit about natural gas wells is also coming into use public Op opinion inton alie manufacture of rubies has lately reached aci faction that the artificial product is often more valuable than the natural stone the process employed is that of M fremy who has described aitto tile the paris academy of sciences discarding t a method discovered cov ky by him some years ago lie he now dissolves in fluoride of calcium and obtains red crystals of or perfect rubies which may be made of urge large size |