The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1892-09-03
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

Southern California produces lSO,-
600, 900 oranges year-not enough 10
give three oranges to each inhabitan'
of the United States.
The chief of the bureau OF statistics
has made a report showing that the OK
ports from the United States for the
twelve months ended March 3lst
amounted to 8, 0O6, 2s4.506, as against
ss72, OOs, 2s6 in the previous year The
imports were valued at $S72 ,05S,5S5 as
AGAINST $685., $3.50, 1854 in the previous
year. .,
"A new case of mimicry observed by
Siard is reported. One is saw fly and
the other is fly. When both insects
are Quiet they resemble each other per-
fectly in color and patterns, and as the
saw fly is protected by its unpleasant
smell from the beaks of birds, 1T is prob
able that the fly is mistaken for 1t by
birds. on account of the bad taste OF the
insect it resembles.
M. Napias pointed out that the at
titude of the body during work has
great influence on health. The sitting
position congests the digestive organs;
the bent position Qike that OF boot
makers) leads to cardiac affections. The
standing position imposed on shopgirls
and women was productive OF much
suffering and disease, and should be
forbidden those who serve in them
1T is claimed that person dreams
almost from the first hour of existence.
Let babe have but one experience,
either that of light, warmth or the more
plcasurable one of suction, and in its
sleep that experience may and probably
will be recalled. If child's mouth be
watched in its first sleep its lips will be
seen to be in motion, the action of suck
ing Is going on-the child is dreaming
of its first meal.
The present prospect for the fruit
grower of California is favorable. The
fruit crop in the east is expected to be
only about one-half as large as usual
Although the output in California will
be less than that of last year, the size
and quality of the fruit will be i'm
proved SO much that it will command
advanced prices The value of the fruit
| crop this wear in California is estimated
| at 500, 000, 900.
The monograph has been intro
ducee into medical practice. DIR. q. A.
Leach, of Washington, has beeu expert
menting with the talking machine with
such results that he expresses the opin'
| ion that deafness can be cured by a
| ouickening of the ear drum with vibra.
| tions from its disk. His theory is that
| the vibration will dislodge the forma
| ton or coating on the inner bones OF
| the ear which produces deafness, and
TINS restore the process of hearing.
| The largest cattle ranch in the
| United States belonging to a single in.
| dividual is forty-five miles south OF
| Corpus Christi, Tex, and is owned by
| Mrs. Richard King. This ranch covers
| zoo. 900 acres and is occupied by 1O0,o 900
head of cattle. The property is under
| the management of Mr.. r. J. Klcberg
Mrs. Kings son-in-law, and the super
intendent employed by him has charge
of 500 cowboys.
Dr. Tassenari, a learned man o
| Rome, has successfully proved tina
smoking kills all kinds of germs HI
demonstrated the fact by filling severa
| glass globes with germs, each of diff
| ferent malicious disease to the others
| then he filled the globes with tobacco
| smoke-it is not said of what brand
\ and 10! in ten minutes the whole 10
were dead, including the germs of tn
deadliest cholera and pneumonia
Philadelphia Record.
| Plans have just been completed TO
the constructing of another great irri
eating canal, with reservoirs, in Arr
IONA, in the Santa Cruz valley, ant
when it is completed 300, 900 more acre
| of the Great American desert will b
supplying the finest kind of fruits AM
grains and other products for the east
ern markets. The canal will be sevent,
miles long and thirty feet wide at tn
bottom, and the construction of tn
works will cost about 81, 2O0.0 200.
Prof Swift, of Rochester, says tn
new comet is the largest that has bee
visible in the northern hemisphere sine
the great comet of 1882, and the frs
one since then that could be photo
graphed. The rapid changes that hav
taken place in the tails make the mos
remarkable comet that ever appeared
As far as now known, this comet ar
pears to b, hyperbolic. 1t never wa
here before and never can be agar
Assuming that it came from the neares
sun, it must have been on the roa
about 100000 years in order to hav
arrived at its present position at thi
time.