The Opelousas courier., 1890-06-21
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

Electricity moves 2s8, 900 miles per
second.
Krupp has Just completed a gun for
the Russian Government that has a range
of eleven miles.
A farmer of Braintree, Mass, has just
died from CHAMBERS, having caught the
disease Of one of his horses.
The habitual drinking Of boiled water
would insure escape from sickness and
death to thousands OF the human race
yearly.
It is announced that q photographer
named Veresez, in Kla, Transylvanla, mas
succeeded in taking photographs in nat
ural colors.
Sionor succi, the Italian scientist, has
coma to the front again with his discov-
| ery of a liquid, the use of which enables
q man to 90 an unlimited length of time
without food.
A Russian officer has invented a lumln-
Gus proiectile to be thrown from a gun
It is claimed that it will be extremely
useful for discovering the movements OF
an enemy in a naval contest at night
Silks that are dyed in this country are
less heavily weighted md are not sub
iect to spontaneous combustion, but
the Frenchmen often use two pounds and
a half of dye stuff to n pound OF silk.
The rich magnetic iron pear Dahlonega'
Ga continues to excite much interest.
Thousands of acres are being conveyed
bv option to outside capitalists, who
ropos developing it when the railroad
is completed.
Cheese is one of the very few modern
food substances which are never grossly
adulterated. It's only adulterant, in TACT
at the present time is its colorlng ma
terial, which is usually annatto, saffron
OF common carrots.
According to reliable estimates not
more than one egg in 200 Matched natur'
ally in the waters produce a fish capable
of feeding itself, thus representing oy
far the greatest expectancy oil destfue-
ton in the number Of eggs laid by the
female.
In Europe iron Stag is cast into blocks
and used for street pavements ana mouse
building. In Cleveland, Ohio, there Is a
factory which converts it into mineral
wool. 1t is a mass of very fine hbrss
filed with CLASSY particles. 1t Is soIt'
plant and inelastic.
The substitution of steam for COM
pressed air in a gun intended to throw
shells containing dynamite oil other high
explosives is proposed in France, the al
vantages claimed being the furnishing OF
power direct from the boiler without the
use of air.compressing machinery,
One-seventh of the coal mined is lost
from being broken up too finely to De
burned with profit. A prominent rail-,
road company is now mixing the aus
with pitch, and COMPRISING it int
blocks that burn like hard coal, with the
advantage that they are entirely consumed
to ashes and leave no clinkers.
English stoats and weasels are belnsg
exported to New Zealand from England
in large numbers to kill off the rabbits,
ana the TaES WHICH nave beon NV
the stoats and Weasels in England are In
creasing enormously in many districts
There is talk of a movement to prevent
the expectation of any more rat destroy
ers.
The natives of Hayti, according to Dr.
r. P. Crandall, fear pulmonary consump
ton more than yellow fever or smallpox
and believe il to be both contagious AM
infectious. All property from a con
sumptive's ath-chamber-even jewels
and money-is destroyed or removed tt
a place Of deposit, and small houses arr
burhea
An elecftteisp, writing recently on tn
action of el~ectrioitson the human body
says that just what tSkssaplace in th'
human organism to produce~desSh from
an electric current seems to be- an I'm
solved problem. One of the theorie
sometimes advanced concerning it is tina
when a being suffers death from electri
shock it is a pure case of internal ruptur
or explosion from the generation ot ga
or vapor. .,