The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1888-09-08
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.
One pound of mercury converted
into illuminate is sufficient to charge
10000 percussion caps.
The sugar mite is estimated to
number 100000 per pound in most UNI
refined sugars. 1t causes the ''grocers' "
| itch of those handling the raw sugar.
The system of delivering milk in
glass jars is now in use in almost every
city in the United States, and is the
only clean and healthy way to handle
milk.
A Nevada ranchman shot, trapped
and poisoned 1920 rabbits in four
months, and then figured up that about
! 5000 new ones had come to fill their
places.
More than 1,OOO.O 900 tons of fax
+> are burned or left to rot every
saar,, the Western States. If manu-
ssss,,.aa into linen cloth it would be
worth $50, 100000.
-Eecarfc rifles ara the latest. In
steod r,f the O, binary p srcussion firing
device a dry CHI. bride OF silver battery
and a urinary coil will, Sc it was lately
stated before the Araericaaa institute
fire the rifle $4,000 times WI nout re-
charging. ms,
An oddly patterned door has Jus'
been made for Bar Harbor, Me-, = '-
tape. 1t consists of 81 separate piece
of best pine and cedar wood. The main
norton of one side is ornamentally
shingled, and other parts have carved
raised panels.
DIR. Worms, of the Paris Academy
Of Medicine, has ascertained that bees,
ants and wasps show a marked dislike
to the new saccharine. To the human
nalate there is no difference in the
taste between it and sugar. 1t has
been shown, however, that its use dis
turbs digestion. ~.
Professor Schmidt, of Gatz Uni
versity, has hit upon the plan OF cut
ting off pieces of living sponges ald
planting them in asuitable place In the
sea, as if they were willow twigs. In
this way he has succeeded at the end
of three years in producing four thou
sand sponges at a cost OF forty-ftve
dollars.
Asbestos is being used as . cover
ing for locomotive boilers and domes.
1t is claimed that it is not necessary to
remove it when the boiler requires TO
pairs, as the leak easily shows through
it, and a piece can be cut out, the leak
repaired and replastered. 1t is better
than wood and also fire-proof
Physicians in Germany and Sweden
have sought to cure cases OF cancer
that had got beyond the known rem
edies, by inoculating the patient with
the virus of erysipelas. In several in
} stances the person thus inoculated was
attacked by erysipelas, which seemed
to overcome the cancer for time, but
30 reduced the patients vital powers
that in every case the experiment ended
in death.
"A German company has patented
process for producing surface colora,
: lions upon articles made of copper
zinc or brass. On the first-named metal
: it is possible to develop all the colors o.
the rainbow; and upon zinc the coating
1, is formed of such thickness as to per
NIT of chasing the surface. The mos
important application of this invention
seems to be in the imitation of antique
: bronze, the results in this direction be
? ing very satisfactory, both in the mat
= ter of durability and resemblance.
Although glass pipes of larg'
+ diameter have not as yet been success
y fully produced, the opinion has beer
Q expressed by those engaged in tn
o manufacture of glass on a large seal
8 that the time is not far distant whel
. some method of casting such pipe
. satisfactorily and cheaply will b de
o vised; and it is believed that, made II
similar form to the present GASTRIC,
, pipes, with some suitable mechanism
u for joint, and of malleable glass,
% water pipe would thus be formed +
, which there could scarcely be an oh
Q lection. Strong, tough, smooth AM
> indestructible, and made Of a materia
. that is found almost anywhere, it
!" thought not improbable that, in time
:, whenever large quantity Of pipe
y required in any one locality, a furnac
y will be erected and the pipes be Their
10 made