The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1890-01-25

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Physicians Of eminence now advo-
cate swimming as = necessity in our
physical development.
"A machine that cuts matchsticks
makes 10000, 900 a day. They are ar
ranged over vat and have the heads
put on at the rate of 5000, 900 per day by
one man.
The secret of making Russian sheet
iron is owned by the Government, and
Is such an immense monopoly that 1T Is
currently supposed to defray the entire
expenses Of the government.
AT Padua the operation Of the graft
ing OF chickens cornea on the human
eye was recently successfully accom-
plished. The graft is said to have united
quickly and formed cornea which was
very transparent, shining, and convex.
The State of Vera Cruz raises about
5000 tons Of tobacco per annum, and ex-
ports about 700 tons. England is the
greatest buyer, taking R96, 900 worth of
manufactured and a5, 900 worth of raw,
or e101 900 worth out of a total of e140, 900.
-Honey-farming in Germany yields .
net income to the bee-keepers Of 7,000,-
600 marks (about four and quarter
million dollars), and is SO important an
industry that the Government affords it
the protection of special laws.
English municipalities sell gas for
from forty-five cents to seventy-fve
cents per 1000 feet, and the product is
better than the average furnished to
Americans. 1t is made from coal at
cost Of fifteen cents per 1000 feet.
The annual amount of sugar refined
In the United Kingdom may be put at
74o, 900 tons, employing 1920 men, or
whereabouts, in the refineries, which are
26 in number. This is exclusive of sub
sidiary and dependent industries. The
capital fixed and floating employed by
the refiners, on the basis of an estimate
for the district of Greenock only, may
be put at "a, s5o, 900, OF which 81, 700, 900
is fixed.
"A German trade journal advocates
the following method for testing the
quality of roof states. The samples of
the slate to be tested should be carefully
weighed, and then put into boiling water
for quarter of an hour. The water
must, however, be fairly free from lime,
saltpeter and ammonia. The states are
then reweighed, and those that show
the greatest increase of weight are those
most capable of resisting deterioration.
1T is said to have been demonstrated !
hat the cotton stalk, which has hither-
70 been regarded as waste, contains
fiber. A lot Of the stocks was
'ecently sent from Arkansas to a factory |
n New York to be operated ON in the
anne manner as fax and hemp. There
we're returned about twenty different I
trades of fibrous material, from coarse
trands OF the stock to the glossy fiber
IS soft as silk. Persons are now en-
aged in perfecting machine that will
pin the material. The fiber is sum-
iently strong to make the best of bag
ing as well as cloth as fine as linen.
Hitherto it has been supposed that
English wsuers in the middle OF the
ighteentn century first utilized parallel
ais, like modern railway tracks, in the
of burdens. In q ssDe-
cription of the World" by Sebastian
lunster, 1541, wood cut has been found
representation of little
our-wheeled cart loaded with ore, and
nth a man behind showing it along
arallel rails. The scene of the wood
ut is an Alsatian mine of the first part
the sixteenth century. Munster calls
ne car in question fnstrumentum tract
rum, and mentions that its four wheels
ere of iron.