The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-08-17
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

The amount Of lumber used in this
country Is enormous. 1t requires !, 400
BOO feet for cigar boxes alone.
The discovery Of the cellular
structure of plants is credited to the
naturalists of the seventeenth century.
White lead is manufactured by the
new Hannay method direct from the
ore in the space OF q few hours, while
by the old process it was . matter Of
several months.
The French chemist who discov-
ered oleomargarine has now invented
process for treating steel by which
steel bronze and bell metal can be
made at fabulously low prices.
"A cigarette-smoI<ing boy will not
make strong man. He will have Inn
paired digestion. small and poor mus
cles, irritable temper, and lack OF
capacity for sustained efforts OF any
kind. Bartholow.
Mr.. Edison says: ''Undoubtedly
the next great discovery will be some
method Of getting electricity from coal
direct without the Intervention Of
boilers to make steam, steam-driven
engines to run 6ynamos, which In their
turn, with the Intervention Of magnet
ism, do work, whether In operating
motors or in making light"
The Queen Of Italy has re-estab-
lished the manufacture of Burano lace.
The industry had almost wholly died
out. The Queen found an old woman
who knew the stitch. and had her
teach number of younger women.
The result is that Burauo lace hal
again become a source oflarge revenue
to the people Of Burano.
-Petrole is the name given to q man
ufactured substitute for coal. made BY
q firm in Minneapolis, and is the direct
outcome of the scarcity Of fuel which
has retarded the birth of manufacture
ing industries in that city and in fact
the whole Northwest It is made from
saw-dust, the residuum Of crude petro-
leum. and number OF other ingredi
ents which are not made known by the
inventors.
The walnut that grows in Persia
Asia Minor. and Circassia, makes the
costliest of all cabinet woods. The
veneers are cut to one hundred and
twentieth of an inch in thickne and
sometimes as thin as LIS to an inch
The veneers used on furniture are some.
what thicker; the thinner ones being
used on picture frames and covering
for walls, after being backed will
strong, tough paper.
-Algarobilla is q tanning materia
that Is used in the Argentine Republic
South America, and gives satisfactory
results. English tanners have expert
mented with Algarobilla and some o
them employ it to-day in their tanner
les in England. tits very rich in tannin
The pods Of this plant contain forty t.
sixty per cent of tannin, and are gath
cred before becoming quite ripe.
this Is neglected. the tannin. which 4
yellow powder. would be lost.
-One of the difficulties of cotto
spinning, an exchange says, is . lac
of moisture in the atmosphere; but thu
has now been overcome in some meas
ure by the invention Of q fog ma
chine. which generates what at nrs
glance appears to be steam, but whic
is really q spray of water separate
into so fine q mist that it has the al
pearance Of one of natures fogs. B
the use Of this spray the temperatur
Of . spinning room can be lowered t
the right degree, and the humidity
which Is the more important consider
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