The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1891-05-30
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.


The business men of Galveston,
Tex, have organized stock company
for the establishment of the ramie in
dustry in that state.
One million and half men work in
the coal mines of the world. OF these
England has 5S5. 900; United States,
300, 900; Germany, 2S5, 900; Belgium.
100, 200; France, 10000; Austria, 100, 900;
Russia, $4,000. The worlds miners of
metal number 4, 600, 900.
The most expensive thermometer
in this country is in use in the Johns
Hopkins University. 1t is known as
Prof. Rowland's thermometer, and is
valued at $4,000. 1t is an absolutely
perfect instrument, and the graduations
on the glass are SO fine that it is neces-
sary to use microscope to read them.
An excellent and abundant substi-
tute for India rubber is reported as hav-
ing been discovered at Goa 1t is the
solicited fluid which issues from the
Nivolcantem, which grows wild and is
generally used for hedges. Though
white when it flows from the tree, in its
dried state it is of chocolate color,
closely resembling guttapercha-
"A Paris physician, NJ. variot, one
of the best known doctors in the princi-
pal hospital, has for some time been
studying the project of metalizing dead
bodies entire. He has at last succeeded
SO that a body may be Theoretically In
closed in gold, silver, nickel, bronze,
copper, or other metal envelope, accord
ing to the taste or means of the mourn
ing relatives. 1t is said that Variot's
process is making considerable head
way.-Boston Journal.
Great anxiety is felt in Switzerland
concerning the decadence of the watch
making industry, which, next to the
textile industry is the mainstay of the
inhabitants of the country. The profits
are dwindling down, as the United
States and England are every year be-
coming more powerful rivals in this
field. The demand, too, for Swiss
watches is falling off considerably in
certain countries, notably in this coun-
try and in France.
Prof Dana concludes that during
the glacial period Long Island sound,
instead of being, as it now is, an arm of
the ocean twenty miles wide, was for
the greater part of its length narrow
channel, serving as common trunk for
many Connecticut streams and few
from Long Island. In these circum-
stances the supply of fresh water for
the Sound river would have been so
great that salt water would have barely
passed the entrance of the sound.
Mrs Carrie Williams, a silk cultur-
list of San Francisco, says the industry
will be brought into prominence at the
worlds fair. Over $500, 900, 900 is en-
ployed in the business annually in the
whole world and Americans have not
taken enough interest in it. A company
of Japanese, direct from Toxic, has
purchased tract of land in San Diego
county, California, and will engage in
the industry. San Francisco has a
Woman's Silk-Culture society, the only
one in the United States.
Not long ago Prof. Tillmans, of
Leipzig, performed the unique surgical
feat of removing lung which had be-
come hopelessly diseased. The patient
recovered, not only the operation, but
from the disease, and in few months
had lost the appearance of an invalid to
such AN extent that Dr. Tillmanns
failed to recognize him when he called.
Sir Morril Mackenzie says that this case
seems to open up great possibilities for
the combination of Koch's treatment
with surgery.-Rochester Herald.
The new industry of camphor pro-
duction gives promise of being per-
manently established in Florida. 1t is
believed that in ten years time there
will be more camphor trees than orange
trees in Floria, and that the camphor
industry will be more profitable than
that of sugar. 1t is stated that the
camphor obtained from the Florida trees
approaches more nearly to that of Japan
than to Chinese camphor, since the odor
of safro is distinctly recognizable
Louisville Courier-Journal.
DIR. Uspensky, of st. Petersburg,
has just laid before the Hygienic SO.
ciety there, as well as the Russian min
lister of the interior, an account of his
method and success in treating con-
it. He uses the Brown-Sequard elixir
to give the patient strength enough to
resist the disease, and then completes
the cure by means of prescribed diet
and mode of life. Heincludes in his ac-
count a large number of testimonials.
written by men who say they were
cured by him and bearing the endorse
mept of several of the hast known ,,bv.
sicans of st. Petersburg.
The lion is eaten by some African
races, but its flesh is held in small es-
TEEN. The Zulus find carrion SO much
to their liking, that, according to the
late Bishop Colenso, they apply to food
peopled by large colonies of larvae the
expressive word ''uborni, - signifying in
their uncouth jargon great happiness"
David Livingstone, that keen and ac-
curate observer, reminds us that the
aboriginal Australians and Hottentots
prefer the intestines of animals eft IL