The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1890-07-19

SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.
"a civil engineer IN Germany must
study and practice nine years under gov
eminent supervision before he AN make
independent engagements.
A vegetable flannel is made In Ger
many of fine leaves which are woven
into undergarments and clothing Of
various kinds. One great advantage Is
no vermin will lodge in clothes made
from the material.
The art of making red glass for
church windows. as practiced In the
twelfth and thirteenth centuries, was
lost for q long time and was only re-
covered In 1899. The modorA productf b
still inferior to the ancient
The mollusks that bore into the I'M
sulation of submarine cables arc pro-
nounced to be q species of teredo. The
embryo is said to penetrate between the
iron wires of the sheathing and Turk in
the jute until strong enough to cut
through the guttarpercha.
Manufacturing statistics show that
the State of New York leads in the
production Of underwear, while Penn
sylvania is far ahead in the making Of
stockings Seamless stockings are made
everywhere, but In the Western States
especially; in the latter ara also made
wooden gloves and mittens. in vast
quantities, particularly the filled NIT
tens, now so important in the trade.
Experiments have demonstrated
that the relation between the velocity
of projectile and the resistance offered
by the air to its motion differs ma
terially from Newton's theory that the
resistance is proportional to the square
of the velocity. For velocities which
are nearly equal to that of sound in the
air the proportionate increase of the
resistance is much greater than that Of
the velocity. y sl
"A firm at Bolivar, N. Y, Is engaged
in manufacturing gas from crude oil.
1t is claimed it beats old nature. Under
the new device tho gas can be sent to
any reasonable distance required. The
owners claim they can show more IRE
for heating purposes than any other gas
plant in the world and ct . lower cost
than any on record, or, in fact as cheap
IS natural gas. For portable gas
work for hotels atwatering places it is
said it can not be beaten
Flexible metallic tubing II now
made In Belgium. and is said to be
meeting with. considerable favor Is .
rival Of rubber hose. 1t Is formed by
wrapping strips of brass or other metal
spirally around o mandrel, the strips
being bent over at both sides and . thin,
narrow rubber bard inserted to prevent
leakage. The tubes bend readily in any
direction. and are perfectly tight, very
strong, and easily handled and repaired.
The substitution of steam for COM
pressed air in gun intended to throw
shells containing dynamite or other high
explosives, is proposed in France, the adj
vantages claimed being the furnishing
of power direct from the boiler without
the use Of air-compressing machinery.
The pressures usually carried in steam
boilers. would not be sufficient for this
purpose, but boilers are promised of .
special type which will supply steam at
pressure at from six hundred to eight
hundred pounds, and which will at the
same time be safe and easily handled
"A factory at Cronly, village near
Wilmington, N. c., is making bagging
for cotton made from pine needles. 1t
is believed that this new material for
bagging win not only break up the jute
trust but become . source Of great
wealth to the South. Dry pine needles,
or straw" as they are termed, serve Is
well as green ones, but on account Of the
difficulty of obtaining them in suiIi-
GENTLY clean state the practice is to
take the leaves fresh from the trees,
selecting the lower and older ones and
leaving the younger for the support Of
the tree.