The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-12-21

When q girl falls in love she stops
saying her prayers, but after she u
married she begins them again. =
American Globe.
The newly invented apparatus for
feeding the fires Of electric-light plants
does away entirely with the necessity
of handling coal after it has been
dumped in tho fuel room.
The manufacture of luminous paint
has been begun in Austria on large
scale, at about sixth Of the cost hith-
erto. A special paper is supplied for
use when the paint is applied to walls.
--Brannerite is the name of a new
mineral recently discovered in the
northern part Of Arkansas by Prof w.
Albert Chaplain, OF Lead Hill. and
named ia honor OF Prof. John G. Bran
ner, the Arkansas State Geologist.
1T is reported from birmingham,
Ala. that a Scotch chemist named
Archibald has discovered process by
which all phosphorus may be removed
from iron and the ore converted into
Bessemer pig at cost Of only fifty
cents ton. The process is said to
have been successfully tested.
Recent Investigations in French
medical institute show that death from
hydrophobia il the result of brain and
spinal Inflammation rather than blood
poisoning. Hydrophobia could not be
caused by incubation Of the blood. but
followed FROM incubation of the nerve
tissue. as was shown by experiment
IA peculiar industry has sprung up
ncar Albany. N. r.. since 1SS8-that
Of supplying crushed stone for asphalt
and macadamized roads. The quarry
from which the stone is taken Is oper-
ated night and day. One thousand tons
Of rock day are crushed. and $50 cars
are used in transporting the fragments
Of rock to all parts Of the country.
"A young German student of Assy.
rioiogy has been experimenting with
soft tiles and q stylus, and concludes
that the Assyrians wrote their cuniform
lines with cube-shaped instrument
having pointed end, which was made
Of wood, not metal. He processes to
find it very easy to write cuniform az
rapidly as German with such stylus.
"A Russian engineer has invented .
device for utilizing the power of run.
ming streams. His apparatus consists
Of az endless cable, carrying series
of canvas cones, which open and shut
like an umbrella. The cable passee
over . double drum on board . pom
toon, and at the other end over a pull.
ley suspended from a buoy. On the
lower part Of the rope the cones are
opened and forced forward by the cur.
rent Of water. thus setting in motion o
shaft or drum.
"A wonderful revolution In -four
barrel making Is promised by patent
which has been granted for the making
of barrels out Of cotton duck instead OF
wood. The new material Is impervious
to water and resists fire for . long time.
It weighs 70 the barrel about fifteen
pouu6s less than the wood. and can be
manufactured ten per cent. cheaper.
The cotton duck barrel can be rolled up
into small space and returned to the
mills for frequent use.
Most railroads in this country when
renewing their rails order heavier ones
than have previously been used on
their tracks. A better road bed and
heavier rails are required for increas-
ing trafic. heavier locomotives and
greater speed. A short time ago the
standard weight Of rails was fifty-six
pounds per yard, requiring eighty
eight tons per mile Of single track. Az
q sixty-dve pound rail takes little
over ono hundred tons per mile Of
single track, although only nine pounds
per yard heavier than a fifty-six pound
rail. It is easy to see that the tonnage
Of rails manufactured during the year
Is steadily increasing to an enormous