The Colfax chronicle., 1890-11-15
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

More shoes are manufactured al
Haverhill, Mass, than in any other
city of the United States.
Apples ten and twelve inches in cir
cumference are raised in southern Flor.
ida. They are said to be Of fine flavor
and juicy.
AS the result Of weighing two hun
dred and three newly born children, to
determine the weight of brain, the male
infants brain weighed 11.9 ounces and
the female 11.6 ounces. the weight ol
the brain being to the body as one to
weight or thereabout
"A feature of the international elec-
trical exhibition in Frankfort, Germany,
will be the transmission Of electric
power. A firm in Lauffen, on the Nee.
kar will furnish currents of 50o.horse
power over copper wires from station
140 miles from the exhibition.
The effects of steam in the destruc-
tion OF bacteria do not depend, accord.
ing to the researches of Won Esmarch,
SO much upon the temperature as upon
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lfthere is air with it, the power of de-
stroying organic germs is very much
diminished.
The 9rophor Is new invention
from Germany Of great Importance in
textile factories. and is being intro
duced into the factories of England as
we'll as Germany. 1t is an apparatus TO
diffuse moisture necessary for spinning
without injury to health or machinery.
The enormous development of our
iron industry is shown by the statistics
OF the Iron Age, in which the produc-
tion of iron for the first six months OF
1890 is placed at 4,610, 900 tons, which Is
the largest amount of iron ever made in
any country in the world in that time.-
Boston Journal.
"A process for marbleizing silk plush
without pressing or embossing it has
been discovered. BY this process the
light and dark effects are reversed when
looked at from opposite points. The
finish is nicely preserved and does not
give the appearance of having been wet
as shown In many goods of this charac-
ter.
-Glass-blowing is an art nearly 1000
years old, and perhaps much older. Yet
there never has been any means discoy-
cred OF dispensing with the human
lungs as the instruments of the blowing.
An English company is experimenting
with mold and mechanical bellows,
which docs satisfactory work at bottle
blowing and other coarse work.
The production of steel rails in this
country during the first six months of
this year isgiven by a reliable authority
IS approximating very closely to s00,-
700 tons. This is said by the same au-
'hority to be 1885, 600 tons or more in ex-
Jess Of the production for the same
period last year. This indicates a very
healthy condition of the streel-rail trade
or the year SO far, and the indications
ire that this activity will be continued.
american Manufacturers.
Ten years ago there were only 14o
otton mills in the South, of 542, 900 spin
lies, consuming 1sl, 900 bales of cotton
n 1889 there were $40 cotton mills, in |
Iighly prosperous condition, using |
200, 900 spindles and consuming soc. 900 |
'ales Of cotton year. In this industry |
he South is just beginning to move; ten |,
ears ago they manufactured one-for-
ieth of the cotton crop of the South, /
nd now they manufacture one-twelfth.
In the manufacture Of paper this
ountry has been making tremendous
tribes during the last few years. The
Industry has been brought to such a
Ugh state Of developement, and the pro-
uction reduced so much in cost by i'm
roved machinery and the successful
Sc of wood pulp under special process,
bat large export trade has been es-
particularly with England.
market has also been found in Austria
q and elsewhere.
by submitting different seeds to the
,tion of the electric current their de-
is rendered more rapid.
experiments made in Russia show that
hen the electrical treatment is applied
} vegetables there is a larger crop and
'e vegetable grows to larger size.
arley ripened ten days quicker; pota-
es were better and not SO prone to
sease, and vines that have been
eated have been cured of the diseases
hich have attacked them. 1t is also
ggested as remedy for the evil Of
q potato bug.