The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-04-13

In the single industry of iron ana
steel in this country 81, $50 men arc
employed, who receive every swo
weeks $9S9,50O in wages, or szo'40''
A little girl of Boston who re-
Gently wrote composition about ".
Holmes remarked that "he was ior
several years professor OF monotony at
the college," -
"A sleeps eye resembles tho human
eve. Young opticians often use .no
eve of q sheep in learning many OF the
most critical points connected Will
their profession. Y. Press.
Popular science has information
that the hippopotamus will become eS-
tinct within the next twenty years. 90
many have been killed off by natives
and sportsmen that they are now haroiy
to he met with.
"A single plate of perforated zinc
about a foot square. suspended over
gas jet, is said to retain the noxious
emanatiops from burning gas, which u
is well known destroys the binding OF
books, furnishes the gliding and VIII
ates the atmosphere for breathing.
Mrs. Millicent Garrett Fawcett' In
a recent lecture. called attention to the
fact that the heaviest brain ever
weighed was that a famous naturalist'
and the next heaviest. that OF a washer
woman. The natural inference is that
there is no well-established relation De-
tween brain weight and brain power.
"A still body Of water at tempera-
ture of from seventy-five degrees I'd
eighty degrees, which is about the or
binary summer temperature, will evap-
crate about three-eighths OF an inch In
twenty-four hours il there is no wind.
With the wind blowing at twenty miles
an hour, the evaporation will be about
half an inch.
DIR. Dorpfeld, German archHalo-
gist, thinks that the Greeks borrowed
their different styles OF architecture
from Egypt, and from several OF the
ancient peoples of Asia The remains
of the edifices at MycenB and Tiryns.
he says, bear wonderful resemblance
to the Jewish temple at Jerusalem.
They have an improved method OF
lasting shoes in some OF the Maine shoe
factories by which cement is made to
take the place Of pegs and tacks. The
device, which is patented, costs twenty
per cent. less than all other articles for
the purpose, and is said to do three
times the work.
Water is made up of two different
things. hydrogen and oxygen. 1t has
in it two measures of hydrogen and one
Of oxygen, but the later is so much
heavier than the former, that nine
pounds Of water contain eight pounds
Of oxygen and only one pound Of n.y.
drogen. The way in which this COM
position is proved is by means of vol
taic electricity with an apparatus
made especially for the purpose. 1t
will be found minutely described in all
standard textbooks of chemistry.
The art of bread making has been
known from the earliest times, and as
early as the period of the Jewish
exodus the process Of leavening was in
general use. In the Museum at Naples
there are exhibited loaves of bread
taken from q shop at Pompeii and
stamped with the name of the baker.
They are perfect in shape, but are
quite black. probably from the heat of
the volcanic ashes which were cast
upon the city from Vesuvius.
"A German photographer. Herr
Ottoman Anshultz, has succeeded in
preparing Photographic plates SO sem
sitive that an exposure of 1-5,00Oth of
q second is sufficient to procure per-
feet impression. A very small lens must
be used, SO that the pictures are gen.
orally only 7-16th of an inch in length
and breadth Enlarged to an inch
and half on glass plates. and rotated
in series Of twenty-four before Geiss-
Ter tube. the pictures are used for re-
producing the motions of an animal on
large screen.