The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1891-09-19
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.
One of Tampa's principal cigar fac
tories viii turn out Is. 600, 600 cigars this
year.
The south will shortly supply The
country's lumber demand. There arr
$500 sawmills running there already.
"A schooner at Provincetown, Mass.
has just from twenty months
mackerel fishing cruise in African
waters. She sent home 1000 barrels,
and brings fifty barrels more.
French specialists, sent to examine
the condition of vineyards, report that
French vines grated on American stock
produce better wine than the native
vines. We have been for long time
sending over our wine to get the French
brand; now we will send over the vines
themselves.
The reclamation of the Okenseno-
kee swamp in Georgia by means of
drainage canals running to the St
Mary's is proposed The area of the
swamp is 676 square miles There will
be about sixty-four miles of main and
1000 miles of lateral canals and MANY
small agricultural drains.
The use of nitrogen as an anes-
thetic was recently successfully tried
in England. Nine patients took the
gas, and in every case the result was
the prod ;tion of complete an@sthesia.
The pulse was first full and throbbinp.
then feeble. In the advanced stage the
respiration was deep and rapid and
there was lividity of the surface, the
pupils were dilated, and there was
more or less jactitation of the limbs.
"A recent official report states that
all over Russia British goods are pre-
ferred to those of German and French
make, but owing to the considerable
difference in price, the excessive trans
port charges and the unwillingness OF
the British manufacturers to alter their
patterns to suit the requirements OF
Russia, the goods of the latter countries
are rapidly BUSTING those originating
from Great Britain.
The Philadelphia Bulletin is author.
lty for the statement that the photograph
has been employed in New York to re.
port the utterances of monkeys, scien.
tific men having become convinced that
their chattering is a language intel
ligible among themselves. Their pho
nographed talk has been repeated to the
with startling effect, and they
have endeavored with their long arms
20 draw out the ape concealed in the
instrument
The new spectroscope without a
ems consists of paper tube with a |
'wo-and-one-half-inch adjustable slit,
similar to a parallel tube at one end.
md prism at the other, the length of |
he tube being such as to allow of the
lit being at the distance of distinct
'ision, equal to the purposes of observa-
ion; for, though the spectroscope is
destitute of a lens, the eye acts the
art and produces the image on the
etina, which image is dispersed by the
nterposed prism. Comparison prisms
r mirrors easily can be placed before
he slit-N. Y. Sun.
Among the results of Prof. Angelo
iellprin's study of the geology and
aleontology of the cretaceous deposits
I Mexico, made during his expedition
that country in the spring of 1890,
re the conclusions that the deposits.
overing or scattered over large part
the country, are continuous with the
retaceous area of the interior basin of
1e United States; that they are a part
the middle or upper cretaceous series:
lat no true lower cretaceous beds have
cen so far identified in Texas or Arkan-
is; and that no marine deposits of un-
Iuivocally lower cretaceous age have
lus far been determined in the United
tates east OF the Rocky Mountains.
"A discovery more curious than any
her yet made with the Lick telescope.
hich, as all will recall, is the most
'werful glass. in the world, is the re-
mt one of new moon. The eariy
orning observers at Mount Hamilton.
H., have lately kept sharp eye turned {
BON the shadow of one of the moons
the planet Jupiter This shadow ;
emed double, indicating that the tiny /
DON which cast it is also double.
nee the first hint of the discovery |
any observations have been made
rough the Lick glass, all tending to 6
nfirm the original impression to wit: !
lat this particular satellite of the {
eatest of the planets is double-a dot I
moon revolving around the main
BON.
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