The Colfax chronicle., 1891-04-25
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

The state mine inspector OF Indiana
reports that there are seventy-seven coal
mines in the State, with capital of
s2,Os1, 900. The output last year was
$3.50, 900 tons.
The total area under ditch in Ell
Paso County, Col, (of which Colorado
Springs is the chief city, is 1l,946 acres.
There are thirty-one reservoirs con-
structed, at an estimated total cost of
$4,000. and four partially completed
reservoirs, which when finished, will
have cost S3l 200. There are in all sixty
bitches.
"A Russian physician has found that
microbes were always present in great
numbers in the fasting stomach of
healthy person. During the earlier
part of digestion they are always quite
numerous. The gastric juice, however,
sends to destroy the microbes, though
no effect on digestion appears to be
cxerted by them.
There are in European Russia 223
sugar factories producing sugar from
beets. This year 269.594 desyatins of
land were occupied with the cultivation
of sugar beets, and produced a crop of
300, ,3s9, ,0s4 pools. The yield of sugar is
estimated for the current year CS00-91)
at %, 305, 324 poods from all the working
factories, about 2l.0O0, 900 of which is
required for use in European Russia
n. Y. Sun.
Curious persons may like to test the
accuracy of some observations by DIR.
Terc, an Austrian physician. He as
serts that persons stung by bees are
fects of further singing, protection be-
ing afforded in the same manner that
vaccination protects from smallpox.
He has also noticed that many stings
are required to affect sufferers from
acute rheumatism, but that after evi-
dence of poisoning, the persons are not
Only secure from further stings, but
from the rheumatism itself.
If NJ. Jansen can persuade the
French authorities, it is probable that
before the century is ended we shall
have an observatory as near the summit
of Mont Blanc as it is possible to erect
habitable dwelling. That will put the
observatory on Ben Nevis quite into the
shade, and even the Lick Observatory
will be in the second rank. Nj. Jansen
has recently been up the mountain, and
but gives a decided opinion that it is
possible to establish station on what
is practically the '.summit" of Mont
Blanc--or at least an elevation of IS, ,O0C
feet or more above the level of the sea.
A prominent English statistical
writer, in speaking of the cotton manu-
facture in England, estimates that the
capital invested in the various branches
of the same in Great Britain alone can
not fall very far short of a75,0Oo, 900, OF
S375, ,000, 900. He basis his calculations
as follows: Taking the spindles at the
figure of lis. Cd. each, and the looms al
ZIG each, the amount invested in plants
will touch e45.000,OOO, and adding tc
this floating capital of ESQ, 900. .00o
fully, which will be necessary to the
trade in importing the raw material,
uting the same to the world, total is
obtained which indicates what is at
stake in this mighty industry
When, in protoplasm, the matter
out of which the plant cell is built up
was discovered, it was believed we were
nearing the problem of the origin of
life. But no one has ever made it any
clearer than before how life came to be
given to even this pristine, organic ma
terial. DIR. julius Wiesner now con-
tends that even protoplasm is made up
of plasomes, and that the whole mass of
material is formed from the original
plasome by division, just as one cell is
by division formed from another cell.
Whence the life in this original. minute
and almost inconceivable plasome is de-
rived is as much mystery as ever.-N.
Y. Independent.