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NEWPORT INDEPENDENT^
R. F.TDrummond Bdg. Newport,
on Upper Front Street. Arkansas.
Read the Daily Independent
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MONEY IN MAINE SKUNKS.
They Are Worth a* Mach as All th«
Deer Killed In That State
In a Season.
It will no doubt surprise many peo.
pie who learn that the despised skunk
is worth twice as much to Maine as is
the much-admired honey bee, but such
is the fact; and, counting things at
their actual worth, the skunk is worm
about as much as all the deer killed in
Maine in a season, says the Philadel
phia Record. The skunk is valuable
both for his fur and for the oil that is
in him, and both the oil and the fur
are in ever-increasing demand.
Fashions in furs regulates the price
of skunk skins. Four years ago the
coat of a dark skunk was worth $2.50
to three dollars, and the demand ex
ceeded the supply. Since then the
muskrat has come into favor, and the
price of skunk slvfns has fallen to about
two dollars for the best. When, how
ever, there are a dozen fat skunks to
be had on every acre of meaddw land,
when a hardwood club is the only
weapon needed for killing them, and
when every fat skunk contains at
least a quart of oil, worth five dollars
a gallon at wholesale, there is money
in the business.
Most of the skunk pelts are shipped j
to a Philadelphia firm, where they are
make up into furs for export to
Frrvucs and Germany, in whcih coun
tries th°y pass as monkey skins. It is
estimated that Maine's revenue from \
Skunks amounts to $150,000 or $175,000
annually, which is double the sum de-1
rived from all the honey bees in the
state, and certainly more than all the
8.000 deer shot are worth to the men
who kill them. From 100,000 to 150,
000 skunks are killed in Maine every
fall.
The demand for oil is steadily in- j
creasing, and the price has advanced j
50 cents to one dollar a gallon within a
year. The natives prize the oil for its j
virtues as a cure for rheumatism and
stiff joints, and large quantities of it
are bought by country traders and sent
to druggists out of the state.
It is estimated that the annual pro- j
duction of skunk oil in Maine exceeds
25.000 gallons, and the quantity is in
creased by adulteration with the fatty
oils obtained from hens and wood
chucks, a deception which has proved
most profitable to the skunk magnates.
MAKING OF OXYGEN.
Interesting Process Known to But
Pew Professional Men and No
Ordinary Mortals.
The manufacture of oxygen—or more
properly its separation from the atmos
phere we breathe—is an intensely in
teresting process known to but few
professional men and scarcely known
at all by the ordinary mortal, says a
scientific paper. A plant for the manu
facture of oxygen to be used in charg
ing its distilled water was put in opera
tion recently at an ice plant in Los An^ ;
geles, Cal.
Oxygenated water is now being pre
scribed by physicians in certain dis
eases, and hence a cheap and simple
method of separating the oxygen in the
atmosphere becomes a matter of im
portance. The process employed oy the
Los Angeles company is based on the
principle that a certain chemical com-1
pound—manganate of soda—readily-,
parts with the oxygen it contains when
subjected to the action of a jet of
steam. A blast of air on the residuum
reforms it into manganate o, soda, this
chemical possessing the peculiar pro -
erty of absorbing oxygen from the
mosphere, parting with it when ex
posed to steam and being reformed
again upon exposure to the air. The
process may be continued indefinitely,
when the ingredients are placed in the
retort and proper connections for air
and steam made. No more chemicals
are required. It may be likened to dip
ping a sponge in water, squeezing it
dry, and then repeating the operation
indefinitely.
Oxygen made by this process, it is
claimed, contains no gas other than oxy
gen and no elements of any descrip
tion other than slight traces of atmos
pheric nitrogen|. Hence it requires no ■
washing to free it from chlorine nor
any purification whatever. The product
is oxygen—and nothing else. The
oxygen, direct from the retorts, is j
stored in gasometers, and then forced
into distilled water by means of a
Twitchell carbonating machine, which
pumps the water and oxygen at the1
same time, thoroughly agitating both
before bottling. The bottling is done
under a pressure of 60 pounds.
New Calculation.
Prof. See has watched the duration of
the blue sky after dark, and found it to
continue for about an hour and 15 min
utes, and from this he shows that our
atmosphere extends to a height of fully
130 miles. Astronomers have usually
found the height of the atmosphere by
computing the height of the meteors, but
none have mad© the height of the atmos
phere over 100 miles. The study of the
blue color of the sky thus proves also
that our atmosphere extends consider
ably higher than scientists have hereto
fore supposed. On our dark days the
blue color of the sky is shut out by
clouds, and combinations of colors due
to reflecting clouds and countless
myriads of particles in the ethereal re
gions high above the earth give ths
bright light which is so much relished
in daily life.
New York City.
New York city now contains more
Irish than Dublin; more Italians tnan
Florence; more Poles than Warsaw;
more Jews than Jerusalem.
An Improvement.
A new typewriting machine returns
the carriage automatically when the ;
end of a line is reached, so that the op
erator is not compelled to oauaa.
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