The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1892-09-17
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.


manv imported from Sweden ana NOT
wav 14s. $50 tons of iron ore, OF winch
81, $50 tons went to Westphaia anu o.
o41 tons to upper Schleswig
The daily capacity OF the Pilisoury'
Washburn Flour Mills Company Is d.
800 barrels; of the Northwestern Con-
solidatcd Milling Company, lo,aoo; OF
the Washburn-Crosby Company, 1O,0oo,
and of the Minneapolis Flour Manufac-
turing Company, $500.
The microscope has revealed many
wonders, among others that the com
mon caterpillar has 1000 muscles In ms
BODY: that the drone bees eyes eacn
contain |. 800 mirrors, and that the largo
prominent ewes of the brilliant dragon
flies are each furnished with 2s,ooo poi
ished lenses 90.
Tobacco has been cultivated, Win
more or less success, in southern Queens
land for many years. the duty on Inn.
ported leaf being thirty-five cents, ana
upon manufactured tobacco seventy
Ave cents per pound, while the local ar
ticle paws no duty. There are ten cigar
factories in the colony.
The amount of whalebone taken
annually does not now much exceed
200. 900 pounds. The largest OF this II
taken by the whalers sailing out Of
ports ON the Pacific coast. A few years
ago the amount taken reached as nlgn
as 500, 900 pounds, annually, ana IN
some years it went above these figures
The price has gone up from so cents
| pound to % wholesale.-Boston Tran
script.
in Russia there are 10000 acres
planted to sunfowers. One variety
has small seeds for the production OF
oil; the other has larger seeds and Is
used for consumption, like our peanuts.
The average yield is 1850 pounds per
acre. and the seeds sell at one and
one-half cents per pound, the farmers
income being $50 per acre.
] The total area cultivated in En-
gland in 1891 was 4S,179,47S acres, as
against 4s,O45,755 acres in 1890. The
cereal crops in 1891 covered ., ,oo9
acres, as against 9,574,349 acres in 1870;
green crops, 4,510,653 acres in 1891, and
,534,145 acres last year; hops, So, las
acres, against 81, 555 acres; small fruits
go, 1877 acres, compared with 46, 1888 acres
in 1890.
"A scientist states that in the course
of about 100000 years from now the
forces at work on the earth will have
completely leveled its surface, so that
there will no longer be hills or valleys.
continents or distinctive oceans. All
the land will have been washed down
into the sea, which will then cover all
with watery mantel and render i'm
possible any life except that which can
exist without dry land
M. Lipmann has terminated, for
time, his experiments at LaSarbonne in
obtaining colored photographs. He has
succeeded in getting four, which are to
be presented to the Academy at the
next sitting. One represents fragment
of q painted glass window, with four
colors; the second basket of oranges;
the third two flags, those of Russia and
and France; the fourth a superb macaw.
The colors are most brilliant, but the
learned experimentalist grieves to say
that he cannot yet master the repro
duction of several colors, but hopes for
success by means of that all-powerful
aid perseverance-Phil Record.
Many tons of beeswax are imported
to his country from tropical and sub
tropical parts of this continent and
from Spain. Much of this comes from
Cuba, where tropical vegetation sup
ports and employs an enormous number
of bees Much of the Cuban wax comes
in great masses shaped like the frus-
trum of a pyramid, and weighing from
sixty-five to seventy pounds each. In
spite of the fact that various substi-
tutes for wax have been discovered, it
is still used in great quantities in the
manufacture of cand les, especially for
ecclesiastical use. Much of it, too, is
used in the manufacture of wax lay fig
ures, not only for m useums and the like,
but for milliners and mantua makers.
1t is now reported that an efficient
anecdote for poisoning by carbolic acid
has been discovered by an Italian tailor
who swallowed by mistake thirty
grammes of carbolic acid. DIR. Morett,
of Ancona, using a rubber sound, imme-
diately introduced by slow degrees into
the patients stomach a strong solution
Of sulphate of soda, which forms with
carbolic acid a harmless mixture. In
an hours time the patient, who had
been in most critical condition, began
to revive, the pulse became better and
the respiration improved. Limitations
of ammonia were then used to hasten
up the process, and little by little the
poisoned man rallied SO much that an
emeHc, followed by q dose of lime
water, finished theeure.
A Rural Directory.
"My little man, can you tell me
where Mr. Sanford lives?"