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Show SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. A concern In Iowa U making farm najjons wholly ot stcol. Japanese florists lmvc succeeded In cultivating ft rose which look red In the unlipl.t ;ir.i'. white lr i' ' ' ll ii 1 ru'd li trou it 1 l'j' .!. 1 Tut of c -.rst; : i 1 .-u'ly i!n .jt.t nstlii'o'T ft i i heat. The joople ueveltiji u i.;i,h iit.ii-tion iit.ii-tion to work, nnd become strnngers to ambition of any description. On. homogeneous Irons nnd low-crbon steels, not subjected to lient-trcatiucnt, It nppears thnt each one pcY cent, of nlcltol ndded, up to flvo per cent., onuses an lucrenso of about 5,000 pounds elastic limit and 4,000 pounds tensllo strength. Maine itaniVeconlamonptha states In the dally output of pulp nnd paper. Including the product ot tho three plants now building it is estimated that thu dally output will be 2,105 tons and tho totnl investment in this class of. property will be $30,000,000. Aluminium stoppers for bottles are now beln( mndo nt tho rate of ecrernl thousand pounds a week. Tho blanks are cut from sheet metal nnd, after shaping, rubier gaskets are forced over them. Such stoppers have retained tlio gas of cllcrvcscont Holds for four yoors. Artificial silks are mado of wood, fiber, reilucM to cellulose by tho nction of acids. This Is dissolved to a glue llko consistency, forced through holes in glnRs nnd drawn out into tli rendu which dry nnd hnrden in tho olr Just as those of tho silk worm or tpldcrdo. Th SImplon tunnel, which is now being be-ing bored, nud which will be tho second sec-ond connecting link between Switzerland Switzer-land and Italy, Is to be tho largest tunnel tun-nel in tho world, Its length will be 20 kilometers, or 12.4 miles. The Bt. Uoth ard tunnel has a length of 15 kilometers, and the Mount Ccnls tunnel, bdvteen Trance und Italy, Is 13 kilometers long. .V . a- . . |