The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1891-02-14

SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.
Two hundred and four American
carpet mills, running H. 600 looms, en-
ploying $1,000 hands, made, in the year
1889. &c. SOC, 600 yards of carpet
-Perique tobacco, which, 1t is said,
grows to perfection only in st. James
parish, Louisiana, will be but scant
crop this year, owing to the late hoods.
Cincinnati is q wire center, and
claims to make among other things
90, 900 birl cages. %. 900 rat traps, 100, 900
fly traps and 800. 600 sleeves annually. 1t
is q big industry.
"A person born in hot weather stands
the heat great deal better than one
born in the cold months of winter; of
course the rule works vice versa. Those
born in the spring are usually of more
other time of the year.
"A cold wave, as defined by Prof. +.
Russell, is fall of temperature in
twenty-four hours of 20 deg. over an
area of so. 900 square miles, the tempera-
ture in some parts of this area d scend-
ing to Sc deg. Between 1880 and 1890
no less than COL cold waves were re-
corded in the United States.
1T has been suggested that good
way to rid the town OF moths would be
to set up powerful electric light on
the outskirts The moths's instructive
fondness for light, and especially the
electric light, would thus keep them
where they could iutter their wings
without fear of disturbing men and wo-
men that don't like them.
Twelve years ago India could only
boast of Sc mills, employing !, 49,, 794
spindles. Now Bombay alone has 20
mills, with 1896, $50 spindles, and the
total for all India is 1877 mills, with q
working capacity of 1874, 1876 spindles.
Japan will, before long. also be able to
supply large proportion of the yarns
she consumes, and the cotton-spinninR
industry has secured strong footing in
Gilman. Y. Star.
AT the recent meeting of the French
Association, M. CODES. of Buenos Ayres.
read paper in which he contended
that all living animals have surface Of
absorption and respiration; and that
oxygen introduced by hypodermic in.
lection Is absorbed by the capillaries in
the same way as the oxygen which is
inspired by the lungs. The artificial,
or hypodermic. respiration thus set up
is suggested as likely to be useful where
the proper action Of the pulmonary APP
paratus is defective. - English Me-
chanic.
The New York Engineering News
says that the nickel appropriation OF
81. 600, 900 ordered by the late Congress
for armor plate ''has resulted in the
discovery that there are only about a
dozen nickel mines in the world, and
only three are on this continent The
output of these mines is doubtful, and
one source may not be sufficient Other
nations may also see the advantages OF
the new alloy, and it is said that
Krupp's representative is already seek
ing to gain possession of the Canadian
mine. The other two American mines
are in Nevada and in Lancaster County,
Pennsylvania"
Prof. Wickens Of Vienna. has re-
Gently published some interesting OBJ
servations upon the transmission Of
color in horses English thoroughbreds,
both sire and dam being of the same
color, transmit their color to the of
spring in $50 cases out of 1000. When
the parents are different in color. that
of the mare generally results Bay is
the more frequent color, black the
scarcest, and there are only about 100
black mares per 1000. Two of the same
colored Arab horses will give their hue
to their offspring in 1877 instances out OF
1000. The Arab is usually white. and
729 times out of 1000. If the marc ia
white and the stallion is not. the foal
| will be.
On stone at Winsford Hill. West
Somerset, England, on the estate of Sir
Thomas Acland, an inscription has been
found reading ''Carataci NepuA" The
first word is the name Caractacus found
in Tacitus, which recent editors read
Caratacus Prof. John Rhys writes tc
the Academy to say that the name il
identical with the Welsh Caratauc, later
Caradog, and with the Irish Carthach,
now Carthy. The nepus he explains az
Latin translation of Irish O. before
names, and therefore meaning grandson
or descendant Carataci Nepus would
be equivalent to Ia Carthaigh. or, -
we would now write, OCarthy. He does
not claim that the stone represents the
grave of the Caratacus mentioned BY the
Roman historian.
MERCANTILE hvpOCRtSY.