The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1891-06-06
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.


Two sugar plantations in Louisiana
have produced the past season 4,70o, 600
and T. 46S, 900 pounds of sugar respect
lively.
w. b. Richardson, the Boston nat
uralist, is exploring the forests OF Gen.
trail America in the interest OF the
British Museum. He has met with nu-
merous adventures, and has discovered
several new species of birds.
AT the mechanical fair held at
Worcester Eng, Browther Brothers
exhibited watch, in perfect running
order. constructed wholly of iron. The
object of this curiosity was to illustrate
the malleability of iron, and its conse-
ouent adaptation to a wide variety OF
of novel uses.
The accession of the Employers
Labor association of Liverpool with it's
$50 900 tonnage. to the English Shipping
Federation, raises the aggregate ton
mage in the association to the enormous
total of 1000, 900 tons, and makes it the
strongest federation of employing inter-
ests on record. Journal.
The tobacco raised on the Red Gate
Farm, near Newton, N. j. Hast season,
has been cured, and 1.-The quality of the
product shows that tobacco raising in
New Jersey is an industry which may
be followed with profit by the farmers
in the state"
1T may surprise many to learn that
the purely American commerce that
passes through the 800" canal, be-
tween Lakes Superior and Huron, is
much larger than all the worlds com
merce that annually finds its way
| through the Suez canal, both in the
number of vessels and their tonnage,
yet figures prove it.
"A new rolling-mill in the Krupp
works at Essen. Germany, is probably
larger than any other in the world. 1t
will roll plate about twenty-eight
inches thick and nearly twelve feet
wide. The rolls are of steel Each
pair, in their rough state, weighed 1oo.-
600 pounds.
"A stalwart young man at Leaven-
worth, Kan, recently accepted wager
that he could not stand quart OF
water dropped into his open hand, drop
| by drop, from height of three feet
Before five hundred drops had fallen
into his hand he almost cried with pain
and said he had enough. After little
water had fallen each drop seemed to
crush his hand, and blister in the GEN.
ter of it was the result.-Boston Jour
nal.
Prof. Vaughn, of the Ann Arbor
university, has manufactured lymph
for the cure of typhoid fever upon the
same principal as Rocks lymph. He
has experimental with the lymph upon
small animals. He will try it upon
human patients as soon as he has
thoroughly tested the Koch lymph, 1,00t
injections of which have been received
at the university.
"A New Comet. - The astronomer
Royal in England has been informed OF
another comet, the fifth seen this year
by M. Iona, of the Palermo Otserva
tory. 1t is said to be tolerably bright
and favorably situated for observation
in the northern hemisphere by astrono
mers in Europe and America provided
with moderate-size telescopes.
why do the newspapers all speal
of Koch's Iymph'?" asks physician
HE never calls his remedy lymph, ant
yet English-speaking people have giyel
the German physicians great discovery
this utterly inappropriate term. Lymph
is colerless fluid which passes through
the system in natural course, although
it does not circulate like blood Profes
sor Koch's precious fluid could not pos
sibly be lymph, and to SO call it i
merely to translate the German wor'
which means remedy, and nothing
more--improperly. The blunder is i'm
portant, us it is more or less mislead
ing"