The Colfax chronicle., 1890-10-11
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

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I'm nearly all Russian factories the
employees are required to work thirteen
hours per day.
DIR. Brown-Sequard asserts that
tonic will yet be discovered which will
give person from $50 to 200 years OF
active life
The light seen through the 7ew eye
piece Of the Lick telescope will be 1000
times as bright as that seen by the un-
aided eye.
"A stock company,lwith 500, 900 capi-
tai has recently been formed for the
purpose of raising peaches ON largo
scale in Houston County, Georgia.
"A company has been formed at Salt
Lake City, Utah, with a capital stock OF
100000, to bore for oil near Green
River, Utah. where large quantities OF
oil exist.
"A triumph OF engineering is re-
ported from California in the lifting of
the Feather river, fast-fiowing stream.
| fifty feet, and carrying it for more than
a mile in an artificial bed, at that height
above its old channel. 1t has been accom-
plished in little less than year. The
object was to drain the river near Ore
vile, in order to reach the rich gold de-
posits believed to exist in its bed.
"A correspondent writes: ut is .
we'll known law that energy is inde-
| structible, but case came to my notice
short time ago in which it is hard to
tell in what form the energy appears.
A metal spring is placed under tension,
and while in this state is fastened and
placed in acid until it is completely dis
| solved. What becomes of the energy
stored up in the spring? Is it turned
into heat, and, If so, how?"-Scientific
! American.
-"Where was the Garden of Eden?''
vas one OF the interesting questions on
which Mr.. Hormuzd Rassam discoursed
before the Victoria Philosophical Insti-
tute recently, Sir G. G. Stokes. M. p,
| in the chair. Mr.. Rassam has lately
been excavating Babylonian and As
syrian sites, but he has not found the
Eden sites, and no showed how utterly
impossible it was to locate in . land
where volcanic action and physical al
terations had in many places changed
the courses of the rivers in past ages.
In this sense it is really Paradise
Lost"
Mrs. Watts Hughes, according to
Casselrs Family Magazine, has made
some delicate Investigations into the
nature of sound, with remarkable re-
suits, the making OF pictures by notes
of music. An elastic membrane covered
with semi-f1uid paste is stretched over
the mouth Of hollow receiver. The
| musical note of the singer mirrors itself
in the paste in the most unexpected
forms, Of flowers. ferns and shells, the
form and size of the picture varying
with the tone and timbre of the note.
What application can be made of this
wonderful discovery remains to be seen.
DIR. Julius Nelson, of New York,
has examined four thousand of his
dreams, and finds that evening and noe
turnal dreams areconnected with events
of the day; but the latter have more OF
the terrifying element. The pleasant
est and most remarkable dreams are
those of the morning, after the rest oi
the brain. Fancy is then at her best
and gives the clearest visions. In this
connection it will be remembered thai
many famous men have thought over
their imaginative problems in the early
morning. The vividness of DIR. Nelson:
dreams is subject to regular fluctuations
of twenty-eight days, and varies witt
the seasons. They are most vivid II
December, and dullest in March and
April.