St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1888-01-14
COvINGTON, TAMMANY PARISH, LA, JANUARY
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

SCIENCE AN4 INDUSTRY.
One of the finesj plate mill. in the
country will soon st(rt at Fcrndale. Pa.
Three hundred linen will be em-
ployed | at new play mill at Wheat
The Southern manufacturing mills
are working night q pd day. with orders
running mosihs ah( Ad.
Within six M nths Chicago will
have five new packih houses in active
operation. which, jointly with those
already in the city, Eill have capacity
OF preparing for the market daily 1900
head of beef cattle hd $1,000 hogs
Boston Budget. 4
Applying certa1 measurements tc
a scarcely visible q m of silver. Herr
Wiener arrives at 4 y conclusion that
no less than 125. OO 600 molecules Of
silver must be laid line to measure
IN inch.-Arkansasd Traveller.
1t has been estiI latcd that Paterson
turns out $lOO. OOO. q b worth of finished
silk goods annually and that Swiss
manufacturers and forkmen are being
driven out OF the business in cOnse-
4uence.-Pmtlic Opibion.
The foundry bu} }iness has grown to
very large proport pms thi. year. and
within three years be size and cost Of
equipment has greatE increased. About
fifty large foundrie@ worth from ESQ.,
900 to Sl5. 900. are nbw under course of
construction.
In his latest writings on solar
,hysics. Mr.. j. Norman Lockcy, the
distinguished Engli{h astronomer, OK
presses the opinion hat the volume Of
the sun is much greater than was FORM
erly supposed. and its density conse-
quently much less. The latter he esti-
mates to be about half the density of
water.-M y. LcdgF.
The prospect Of further exploration
IN the direction of Il c South Pole grows
brighter. The Pride Minister of the
Australian colony Of Victoria proposes
an appropriation Of fifty thousand dol
lars for the stimu htion Of Antarctic
research on the part of navigators. pro-
vided that the other colonies of Aus
tralasia will join in the enterprise.-N.
7. Ledger.
-Ofthe various geological collections
N the British MuseSm. the oldest is the
Sloane collection, Which was acquired
by purchase in 1863 The fossils were
then regarded - urs curiositiss. and
the original nanusc lpt catalogue. still
preserved, contaii many curious en-
tsises0suu1u1 11uGnIuupti5sHpse
progrsss of the science Of geology
during recent years. zrev
.Jcr.
"A magnificent gift has been made
to the Natural History Museum. South
Kensington. by Captain War,llaw Ram
sey. The late Marques Of Tweeddale
had perhaps the finest collection Of
birds in Great Britain. aud had in ad-
iition very valuable pathological
libary. This collection and the library
were bcqueatbed to Captain Ramsey.
who has assigned the whole to the
nation. together with many rare or.
astrological specimens obtained by
himself in the far East The value VI
this present is El5.OO0.
Under the auspices of the Wagner
Free Institute. Of Philadelphia, which
devotes portion Of its income to the
encouragement Of original research. a
scientific exploration Of Florida was
made last year. A report of the work
done. which was chiefly geological. has
recently been published. The investi-
cations did not tend to support the
opinion Of Agassiz as to the coral for
nation of Florida, but indicated that
the coral tract Of the peninsula is con-
fined to the south and southeast. The
fossil remains examined BY these and
earlier explorers show that Florida was
once inhabited by the llama. tapir.
camel. rhinOceros and mast0don.-N
T. Ledger.
"A. Pringle claims to have discov.
cred six new substances in some lower
silurian rocks in Selkirk. Five are said
to be metals, and the other Is q sub
stance resembling selenium, and which
he calls hesperisium. One metal is like
iron. but does not give the rhodanate
reaction. nor that with tannin; another
resembles lead. is quite fusible and vol
atile, and forms yellow and green
salts; another is black. and he names it
erebodium; the fourth is light-gray
powder, and the last is dark in color.
For three of these elements the author
assigns the equivalents 95.4, 4S.6, and
74.-Pkblac Opinion