The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1892-10-29
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

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Swiss watches out of the market. Oul
factories make $4,000 watches week.
There are more bee hives in the
United States, where there are 2,SO0,.
900, than in any other country. Greece,
famous for its love of honey, has only
80, 900 hives.
Canon Bagot stated at the British
dairy farmers conference that $1,000
900 had been expended in the erection
of butter factories in Ireland. and that
a factory in Limerick receives $4,000
gallons of milk daily.
OF the II, 10000 women in Italy
nearly 1905, 900 are employed in indus
culture. They are in the majority in
the cotton, linen and jute industries,
and in the silk trade there are III, 900
women employed, and but 17.70s men.
Excluding forests and pastures,
there are 10000 acres of cultivab BILE
lands in Italy. Returns for 1890 show
the main crops to have been: Wheat,
40, 900, 900 bushels; corn, IS, Goa, 900; bar
ley, 100000; rye, 8, $50. 900; rice, 10, $780,
600; beans, 1850, 0o); potatoes, 20, O00,-
900; tobacco, 5000, geo pounds.
The photographic bureau at WASH
ington for two years has been trying to
learn something of the characteristics
of the Atlantic ocean as great moving
body of water by bottles. AS a result
the whole Atlantic IS shown to be cir
culating round and round like an enor-
nous pool.
1t is claimed to be possible to dem
onstrate differences in the colors of ink
which cannot be seen, the one ink APP
pearing light and the other dark. 1t is
well understood the tints of the inks
that are called black are either brown,
red, green or blue Ia shade; such tones
have but little effect on the eye, as it is
chiefly sensitive to The yellow and red
rays.
The bladderworts are wonderful
things in the ponds just now. The
plants float upon the surface of the
water by means of countless little bags
full of air, joined to the seaweed-like
leaves. The ripc seed falls to the bot
tom, takes root and grows there in soil.
When the Towering time arrives, the
bladders fill with air, buoy the plant
upwards, dragging it, roots and all, to
the surface, in order that the flower
may breathe air and sunshine.
The want of sufficient strength to
withstand the pressure resulting in
boiler explosions is a fact to which con-
siderable attention has recently been
directed, and, although it is admitted
that the lack of strength may be inher-
ent in the original construction, the
opinion is expressed that it is most fire.
quently the effect of weakening of
the iron by strains due to unequal cx-
pansion; the cause of such unequal ex-
pansion, and also of weakening by
burning and blistering the iron. is
usually the presence Of deposit or scale
on the heating surface.
The railway mileage Of Canada has
just about doubled in the past ten
years. In 1881 there werc 1850 miles
of railway in the Dominion, and last
year there were 14,009. The earnings
last year were sis, 1872, 099, and the ex.
penses 34,960,449. The Canadian Pa
cific earned SIS, 672, ia, of which s7,134,-
040 was net. The Grand Trunk earned
Sl7, 423, $50, of which "a, 500. 3si was net.
Commenting on these figures one prom
inent Canadian newspaper congratu-
lates the country, but regrets that
growth of settlement has
not followed the extension of the rail-
way system, and points out that there
is much room for improvement on that
point.
"A new and convenient protective
for small abrasions of the skin is sug-
gested by an English chemist 1t is
by mixing equal parts by
weight of camphor and abs )lute alco-
hol, and dissolving gun cotton in this
in the proportion of one part
to forty. When applied to the skin it
rapidly dries and yields an elastic film,
which is an excellent substitute for
ordinary collodion. 1t readily dissolves
salicylic acid, carbolic acid, iodoform
and many other me1icaments intended
for external application. As a con-
venient protective it is likely to super
sede sticking plaster, as the skin film
formed is not unsightly, does not pre-
sent awkward corners liable to catch,
and is not washed off even when moder-
ately warm water is us.1. Healing of
small abrasioas rapidly follows the APP
plication of this solution, either alone
or when mixed with asmall quantity of
salicylic acid.
A Criminal LEOPARD.