The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-10-12

-
In tho treatment of tumors by cleo
tricity it has been pointed out that ex-
treme care Is necessary. especially when
negative electricity is used.
"A new English arc electric lamp
has the upper carbon fed by means OF
an electric motor. which drives a worm
and train Of gearing.
According to Prof. Thurston the
engine of the future is that which ulti-
mately can be made to work up at once
to high temperature and to high press
ures, and can be made at the same
time to develop its powers in the small
est and lightest engine.
"A French manufacturing firm has
patented an alloy of steel with two to
four per cent. of copper. 1t is more
elastic and mslleable than simple steel,
and capable of a far greater resistance.
It is intended for cannon, armor-plates,
rine-barrels and projectiles.
Some experiments lately made at
the Royal Polytechnic school at Munich.
show that the strength of camel hair
betting reaches 6,Sl5 pounds per square
inch, while that of ordinary betting
ranges between $3.50 and 5. 260 pounds
per square inch. The camel-hair belt
10 unaffected by acids.
Out Of LOG persons treated within
a period Of eleven months at the Pas
tour Institute at Rio de Janeiro only
one died. and that one had neglected
to follow the treatment rs directed. In
sixty-two of these cases the dog by
which the patient was bitten was un-
questionably mad; in the others 1t was
impossible to determine positively the
dogs condition.
Ordinary filters. even II satisfac-
tory as strainers, fail to remove all
bacteria from drinking water. So far
from lessening the number In the
original water the altering substance
may allow a more rapid multiplication
than these micro-organisms would
ordinarily undergo in the unfiltered
water on standing, and the germs OF
disease. even il held back by the filter
ing substance, may be harbored in all
filters.
1t appears that. though the first
attempts at cultivating the American
cotton three in Central Asia proved
unsuccessful. new attempt, made
since 1884. under the leadership
of the Tashkent model farm. and with
seeds taken from America, has proved
to be q real success. In 1887 there
were no less than 80, 700 acres under
that crop in Turkestan, and in the fol-
lowing year the area was trebled.
The crop OF 1887 was estimated a
Sc, 900 cwts. of raw cotton.
The existence of libraries and
schools before the exodus was shown by
q report at recent meeting of the Vic
toria Institute in London. Professor
Sayer, by personal investigation Of an.
cient tablets and inscriptions, found that
in the fifteenth century before our era
active literary intercourse was going
ON throughout the civilized world oil
western Asia, between Babylon and
Egypt and the smaller States of Pales-
tine, of Syria. of Mesopotamia, and
even Of eastern Cappadocia. This in.
tercourse was carried on by means OF
the Babylonian language and the com
plicated Babylonian script
There is but little doubt that
aluminium IL destined to be the metal
of the future, and will displace iror
and steel a. surely as electricity is dis.
placing gas and steam. Aluminium ex.
lists wherever there is q clay bank.
Formerly the cost Of reducing it k
metallic form was excessive, but now
the electric current is utilized in it,
production. which is daily being
effected at q cheaper rate. Aluminium
is . soft white metal which never rusts.
1t il little moro than one-third the
weight Of iron. and. combining well
with other metals, it becomes, when
alleged with copper. harder than steel.
Some novel processes in the manu-.
facture of paper have been suggested.
and it is ascertained by experiments In
this direction that the strength Of paper
Is materially increased by the employ.
ment OF sea weeds. which form with
water-certain kinds of them in par
ticular-glutinous liquids; resin soap
and aluminous cake or compound may
also be advantageously added, under
certain circumstances. Experiments
also show that very bright surface
may be given to paper by the following