The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1892-02-20
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY

A French professor has recently
and found that they will kill every mi
crobe; with the exception of gangrene
and tetanus bacillus. With this discov.
cry he hopes to render service to the
French hospitals.
Clouds tend to form around storms
in continuous sheet, thickest near the
center of the storm. and thinnest and
highest at the outer limits The tenn
perature is high in front of storms and
low in their rear. The first indication
of an approaching storm are the finely
drawn-out fibrous clouds, which may be
one hundred miles in advance of the
storm.
The marsh lands back of Atlantic
City are to be filed in and reclaimed.
The dredgings of three hydraulic steam
dredging machines in the inlet are to be
forced through pipe a mile and aquar.
ter in length to the main land. The pipe
is to be supported by scows or pom
toons. The centrifugal pnmps are to
have capacity of ten cubic yards a
minute in stiff blue clay, and d larger
capacity in lighter material from the
bottom of the inlet
The interesting claim is made for
Arkansas of furnishing the finest whet-
stones of any to be found in the United
States for the sharpening of fine-edged
tools. there being in that state remarka-
BILE beds of the substance called novoca-
lite, or what is scientifically known as
an altered schist; this means deposit
of fiinty nature, usually combined
with limestone, the rock thus produced
being changed in such manner MOLE
cularly, by processes not altogether un-
derstood, as to supply a surface pecu-
liarly suitable for grinding.
Humboldt estimated that Asia
stands at an average height of !. $50 feet
above the level of the ocean: South
America, 1.13O; North America. $50; Eu-
rope, $40 feet. The average height Of
all the land above sea level--omitting
Africa and Australia, which are mostly
south of the equator-is about $40 feet.
The landed surface of the Northern
hemisphere is about $4,000, 900 square
miles; that of the southern hemisphere
about $4,000. 900 to 100000 square
miles, leaving a difference OF, say 2S.-
900. 900 square miles of land of an aver
age height of o20 feet above the sea
level
An ingenious kind of stop motion
for cording engines is being introduced.
In this arrangement the shaft of the
upper calendar roller is prolonged be.
yond its bearing for short distance and
a worm affixed to the end gearing into
worm wheel mounted on a stud at
tached to a bracket on the framing. the
wheel also having affixed to its face a
pin which engages with lever, the lat
ter ia turn acting upon one end of
another lever The other end of this
last named lever is bent in such man.
ner as to pass under catch pivoted to
one side of the doffer lever. the latter
being supported in working position by
the catch
Three colossal statues ten feet in
height, of rose granite, have just been
found at Abukir, Egypt, few feet be-
low the surface. The discovery was
made from indications furnished to the
government by local savant, Daninos
Pasha The first two represent in one
group Rameses II. and Queen Hent-
mara seated on the same throne, an ar
rangement unknown before among
Egyptian statues The third statue
represents Rameses standing upright
in military attire, a scepter in his hand
and crown upon his head. Both bear
hieroglyphic inscriptions and both have
been thrown from the pedestals face
downward. Their site is ON the ancient
Cape Zephyrium, near the remains of
the Temple of Venus. at Arsinoe.
Relics of the early Christians have been