The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1891-08-08
SCIENCE ANb INDUSTRY.

learning and ability nv r-.t %
nave the materials fo, s.t,I;,,,~ -,
x;ops - regarding the subdivi
upper lip or iabr,lm, and The n,,n,S sn'
w. In the head of insects which
appears to be six, two in front of the
'"ou Al and four behind.
according to thf Boston Transcript
e P,oouction OF Taper in the entire
world is estimated to be 3. 600. 600 o0O
pounds per year. There arc ss4 naner
ns ana l,io6 panfr machines in this
un.ry. Germany Aas 500 mills and S9l
onines' france 40 mills and 525 ma
chimes, England SD mills and 5a1 ma
chimes, Scotland ed mills ana 90 ,,.
chimes, Ireland Is mills and IL machines
Kussia 13S mills and 1877 machines and
austria 20 mills AMP 270 machines.
"nat is termed the infinite variety
oie world OF Organic beings that we
car see, bears no lcomparison ~ the
Immense variety in the invisible world
~, ich only the MICROSCOPE can show us
The scientific serials and publ;cat;ors
aevo'ed 70 classification are full to over
no"ing or"ew specifs continually being
discovered and described In the last
issue of the Proceedings of the Pb;l.-
aeiphia Academy, lMessrs. Ellis and
N'erfardt describeI ninety-nine new
species OF microscopic plants.
,Fof Joseph Leldy, of Philadelphia,
and his brother, Dn Philip Leidv. he
2neathed their braibs to the Anthropo-
metric society, of which the professor
was founder. 1.-THE brains of the two
orothers,' Philadelphia newspaper
tells u.s. were OF thu same weight to a
fraction of a grain. Both were notice
ably below the normal size, confirming
the deduction of ANTAGONISTS that oual;tv
of tissue rather than quantity distin-
guishes the valuable brain from the TO-
norant."
means OF taking panoramic
photograph of long stretch of country
in fact all around the horizon - has
been devised by NJ. Ilamoiseau, a French
inventor. 1t consists of camera.
winch Is pivoted on horizontal plate
supported on three legs, after the man.
her OF theodolite. The camera slowly
moves round on its lpivot, while at the
same time the sensidised paper moves SO
as to present a fresh surface to the
image, and the adjustment is so perfect
that the photograph is quite distinct in
every part
The boring of aftesian wells along
the coast of New jersey has afforded q
new field to the archaeological geolo.
g1st The result OF an examination OF
numerous wells in the southeastern
portion OF the state leads Mr.. Woolman,
of the Philadelphia academy. to the
conclusion that Their is greater thick.
ness of the Miocehe deposits in the
southern parts of the state than has
been generally heldlby biologists, and,
as a consequence, in creases the hereto
fore estimated dip of the underlying |
Cretaceous and Eocdne beds in that Sec |
ton of the state of New Jersey.-N. Y.
Independent.
The deepest holb in the world is at |
Wheeling. w. Va, where an eight-inch /
well has been sunk hearty mile. When |
1t has reached thai depth the govern |
ment will take up the work under the |
direction OF two expert officers of the |
geological survey hnd drill into the |
earth as TAR as HUMAN skill can pene- |
trate. The idea is 70 take the tempera-
ture and magnetic conditions as far as
possible and by means of an instrument |
constructed for the purpose, a complete !
record of the PROGRESS and ali discov-
cries made will be kept and placed in
the Geological Survey exhibit at the
worlds fair.
Most people ard probably not aware
that there is one at, least of the we'll
known stars compared to which the sun
is mere pygmy. Sirius, the dog-star,
which is also sun,lis believed to have
nearly five thousanal times the volume
OF our sum- Its immense distance, prob
ably hundred mill Jon millions of miles,
makes such measurement as is applied
to the planets impossible. Hence the
above estimate is thsed on a COMPARE |
son of the light of Sirius with that re-
ceived from the sJn. 1t is the most
brilliant star in thd heavens, being far
brighter than the first magnitude, and
its light has greehish tinge. During
the winter months dhe place to look for
Sirius is in the southern heavens.-Pop-
ular Science Monthly.
Years ago it kwas supposed that
Sirius was nearer ahe earth than any
other star, and its light requires over
three years to reach us. Now. how
ever, Alpha CentaJri, comparatively
star of the southern heav-
ems, is known to be our nearest neigh
Dor, and Sirius is 40 far removed that
the human mind fails to grasp the dis
lance when expressed in miles. The
fact that light requires from seventeen
to twenty years tolcross the space be-
tween our little earth and this giant orb
is scarcely more ehsy to comprehend.
II one would APPRECIATE the magnifi-
cence of this most brilliant of suns, he
should not think iof it as near, but
rather let his mind make the vain at
tempt to follow ray of light thither,