The Colfax chronicle., 1891-12-05
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

SClENCe AMI tNOOStous
-Tea-growing is becoming ono Of the
leading industries in Fiji and it is an
ticipated that large traffic in the arti--
Gle will soon be developed.
The value of the goods manufact-
ured in Massachusetts, last year was
$3.50, 600, 900. It is predicted by IN OFF,
cial familiar with the condition of man
ufactures in the state, that before 1900
its annual product will be equal IN
value to 81, 600. 000, 900.
-Leuwenhock has computed that
10, 600 threads Of the web Of q afull-grown
spider are not larger than single hair
of a mans beard. He calculates that
when young spiders begin to spin. 400
of their threads are not larger than one
from a full-sized insect If this be q
fact, "A, 000, 600 webs of a young spider
are not as large as single hair from a
mans face.
Lord Salisbury, in recent lecture
made the following unique classifica-
ton of the three chief sciences: "Astron-
omy," said his lordship, is, in a great
measure. the science of things rs they
probably are; geology is the science OF
things as they probably were; chcmis-
try is the science of things as they are
at present"
Most of the picking of hops ON the
Pacific slope is done by Indians, who
come from all over the adjacent terri
tory and many even from Alaska Old
mariners are astounded by the daring
of the Siwashes in coming so many hue-
dreds of miles down the dangerous
coast in their frail birch bark canoes.
The Indians bring their families and all
| their belongings with them.
"A great steel railroad bridge is tc
beerected over the Columbia river q
VANCOUVER, Wash. 1t is to be 9, 100 feet
long and double decl<ed, with roadways
on top fbr teams The draw pier will
give an opening of 200 feet for vessels
to pass. In order to get foundation
for the pneumatic piers it will be neces
sary, on account of the sandy soil, to &
down eighty feet below low water.
The most extensive salt mine is il
Wieliezka, near Cracow, Austro- Hun
gary. For six hundred years it ha.
been constantly worked. and from I
IS, 900 tons of salt are annually taken
The mass of salt in it is estimated to b
FIVE hundred miles long, twenty mile
broad. and !. 200 feet in depth. Its col
lective galleries are fully thirty mile
in length, and its lower level contain
streets and houses, making it com
pletc underground village. .-Indianapo
lis News
1T Is announced that we are to hav
an American smokeless powder Prof
Charles E. Monroe, government chemis
at the naval torpedo station at New
port, has invented a powder that is prac
tically without smoke and that has bee
found to work admirably in tests wit
the new three and six FOUNDER rapi
Arc guns. Careful attention is to b
paid to developing and perfecting thi
compound, and it is confidently asserte
that it will be equally available 10
small arms-N. Y. Press
m. vignon's new method of analy
sis applicable to industrial water
which have to undergo chemical pur
fication. leads him to some interessin
conclusions, as published in the Mon
teur Scientifiquc. Among the stat,
| ments thus made is the valuable On
! that. in order to determine the element
of publication, or the anti-incrustaaio
! agents. it is sufficient to determine th
free or the half-combined carbonic acit
and to determine the quantity Of soil
BILE salts of calcium and magnetism
into carbonates which are chemical
, neutral.
, "A man lives in Turkalin, in I'll
: province Of Livonia. who can cure II
, worst cases of hydrophobia. His med
] cine for the disease consists of bugs I
the size of freely, which he gathel
, in the month of May in sandy place
lie keeps them in clean bottles mt
! they become perfectly dry and shri
elled to the size of the small cor
mon fly. Only one desc of two sue
, bugs kpeaded in bread is sufficient
cure the worst case OF hydrophobi
When the patient takes the dose h
7 temperature begins to rise. In abo'
: three hours he has fit of raving ma
I ness. after which he falls asleep. Whe
|, he awakes the disease is gone.