The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-06-01

SCtcNOE AMI INOOStnS'
The tensile strength and elastic
limit Of certain classes of iron increase
during rest after stress beyond the I,
elastic limits.
English electricians boast that they |
are far ahead of us in their knowledge
of the science of electrotechnics, but
acknowledge themselves behind us in
the practical applications of electricity.
The annual production of coal in
this country and Great Britain, in the
amount of force it is capable OF yield
ing, according to Prof l. S. Newberry.
of the Columbia School of Mines. is
equivalent to 1000, 900. 900 men work.
ing for year.
The number of artificial teeth made
in America is very large. The houses
which export prepare teeth OF differ
emit colors. Canada demands molars as
white as snow. while in South America
they require teeth that are almost yell
low, and the large trade from China is
for black teeth only. n
"A perfumer says that there is more
downright fraud perpetrated in the
manufacture of altar of roses than in
the making Of any other perfume. Con-
necticut is prominent place for the
production of altar of roses. Eelio-
trope, one of the most popular OF per-
fumes, is made by combining violet
and vanilla in certain proportions.
limitation ivory is made OF various
compounds al by various processes,
and no less than twenty two patents
had been issued in this country to in
ventors of artificial ivory prior to 1870.
India rubber, lime, sulphur, shellac,
camphor, ivory-dust, gelatine, paper
pulp, plaster of Paris. potatoes and
other materials enter into these imita-
ton ivory compounds
The Boston Budget Is authority
for the statement that shirts are being
made out of paper at factory in a
New Jersey town. They are made Of
MANILA paper, combined with other
properties, and are peculiarly adapted
for winter wear owing to the properties
possessed by paper as a non-conductor
OF heat. They have a warmth pre-
serving power far out of proportion to
their thickness and weight, and are
said to wear and wash as well as linen.
1t has been questioned, with reas-
on. whether the sharpening Of quinine
is an una,loyed blessing. Now that it
is sold like groceries at general stores,
and people are using it ad libitum, in
huge doses. for all sorts OF ailments,
it happens that we see cases of quinine
habit and even quinine intoxication.
while in minor degree many constitu-
tions are as perceptibly impaired by
chronic cinchonism as others are by
alcohol or tobacco, tea or coffee.
Quinine is not food, but drug,
which like all drugs, should be used
with moderation and Judgment
Foote'S Health Monthly.
| Application for patent on an
electric-light method of instantaneous
photography was made recently. The
apparatus is designed especially for the
detection of burglars. 1t can be &C
arranged that burglar, in entering 8
bank, Office, or dwelling will. in his
operations, touch something which viii
cause flash and result in his being
photographed. A number of cameras
may be placed in a room and variet,
of views taken simultaneously. Thu
teIl-tale wire can be fastened to thu
knob of safe or door. SO that the in
truder can not avoid touching it, thu
disclosing his identity.
The pneograph is novel instru
ment devised by DR.. Mortimer Gran
vile, an English physician. 1t con
sists of a delicately suspended ant
counterpoised half-disc, with an ar
rangement for moving smoked pape
under q tracing needle. Whom helt
over the mouth, the half-disc rises ant
tails with the breath. The needle i
thus made to trace a wavy line on tn,
moving paper, and the character o
this line indicates the force. continuit,
and duration of the expiration. Tn
tracings in diverse conditions of tn
lungs show very marked and apparent
~ aionificaut diffareucea