The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1888-08-11

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The consumption Of clean wool N
Europe and North America il estimated
at about two and one-hah pounds per
head Of population.
"A now material called ..leatherine''
is an English manufacture. 1t can be
sold NJ five or six cents pound. is said
to be as tough as leather and is do
signed for packing and bagging.
The heads of the Cambridge stu
dents have been measured. showing
that the average brain capacity OF
First Glass man Is pa Sc cubic inches.
The capacity of the ordinary pass mans
head measures 237. SO cubic inches
DIR. Juneman, an Austrian chemist.
has invented the most destructive fluid
known to man. This fluid, when
brought into contact with the air. after
the explosion of shell in which it 10
held. becomes gas, which destroys all
living things within its reach. melts
metals and sets every thing infiammsr
BILE on fire.
oil of peppermint in yapor diluted
even to one part in 100. 900 will kill
cockroaches in an hour, they dying
in commissions. One drop of the oil
placed under bell-jar coverings culti-
walton of cholera bacilli will kill both
bacilli and spores in forty-eight hours
1t is also regarded as among the best
surgical antisepics. and OF great value
e, v,h<h:ss, or1 .j;,,hfhario
Claus Spreckels. the "ex-sugar-
king" of the Sandwich Islands, who IL
now giving his attention to the en-
enlargement of beet-sugar culture in
Northern California, says that the beet
sugar industry can be established in
almost every State in the Union, and
that it will give net profit OF from
fifty to seventy-fiye dollars IN acre to
the farmers.
Late observers have found that the
temperature of wire conveying cleo
trio currents varies with the air-pres-
sures surrounding it. A wire which
remained dull at ordinary atmospheric
pressure became incandescent in =
moderate vacuum while. on the other
hand, a current which would fuse =
wire at ordinary pressure viii scarcely
redden it if the pressure is sufficiently
increased.S r. :
I'm lecture recently given In Lon
don on "Idcal Food" by Fellow Of
the Royal Society, it was stated that
there are four prime essentials in food;
first, water. and plenty Of it In order
to render other foods soluble and nutri-
tious; second, specific kind Of food -
burn-something that would undergo
combustion in the body, and keep up
the animal heat; third. food that builds
builds up the tissues and soft struct-
ures of the body; fourth, food that
would build up the harder structures
Of the body. the bones. etc.
The cost Of the flesh-forming ma
terial in oysters is very high When
they are % cents quart, the protein
that is contained in them costs 81. 68 .
pound. while the cost Of protein In
milk. at seven cents y quart is IS cents
a pound; in salt Goldfish, As cents; in
mackerel. 70; in wheat flour, IL, and
in beef from IS cents to 31.O6. There
fore oysters are classed As delicacies
rather than as staple food. But the
demand for these delicacies is steadily
increasing. and under the efforts OF the
Shellfish Commissioner of New York
the supply Of oysters will soon enor.
mously increase within the waters con-
trolled by the State. Good House.
| keeping.
"A Photographic journal suggests
that the supposed yellow color notice
able in platinotype prints. and re-
Gently attributed by some authorities
to the action Of sulphuretted hydrogen
ON the iron salts, Is not exactly g. -
was recently proved by q series Of ex:
periments, where the print was held Id
strong sulphuretted hydrogen gas and
was not in the least affected. The real
cause was the turning Of the paper IT.
sell. which gave the yellow appearance
to the whites of the picture. By inn
mersing the discolored print in ! bath
of weak chlorine water, or > weak
acidified solution Of bleaching POWDER
the yellow tint is, at once removed.
bringing the print back to its original
vigor. = J