The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-03-04

OF all kinds In the United States In 1871
was III, 1856, ia gallons This exceeded
the product of any previous year, ex-
cept 1881, when the aggregate was 49,
$3.50
Algeria is the greatest cork-produc-
ing country in the world. having 2, $780,
0O0 acres of cork forests, of which $780,
600 are made to yield regular crops
The finest cork is obtained from that
province.
Without opening single additional
scam, there is probably enough coal in
view in New South Wales to enable
10. 900. 900 tons to be pnt out annually
for some years to come. This amount
is more than double the present pro-
duction
How thick is the soapy envelope Of
q bubble? When the bubble has be-
come thin enough to be iridescent the
thickness of the envelope where it
shows violet is 1-240, 600 of an inch.
When the bubble has still farther ex
| banded the thickness of the black patch
which shows itself near the pipe is
about IL, 0O0. 900 of an inch.
Most people do not know plant
has lungs, but it has, and its lungs are
in its leaves. Examined through thigh
power microscope every leaf will show
thousands upon thousands of openings
infinitely small, of course, but each pro-
vided with lips which, in many species
are continually opening and closing.
Insects generally breathe through
special pores in various parts of their
boiy, and If these pores are closed by
oil they are suffocated. Anyone may
test this by dropping sweet oil on the
thorax or back of a wasp; 1t very soon
dies. For this reason oil has been found
one of the best things to USE for the de-
struction of insects.
Many thousand goats and kids are
slaughtered annually in OF about Paris
for the sake of their skins. but as yet
thre has not been observed In these
bodies any case of tuberculosis, which
leads to the suggestion that goats milk
will be far safer for our use than the
milk of cows which are more or less af-
fectei with tuberculosis everywhere.
The oldest East Indian manuscript
in the world, and one of the Oldest
existing manuscripts of any kind. has
recently been dug up just outside OF
subterrancan city near Kuchar. 1t is
written on birch bark. and contains
two medical sections, two collections OF
proverbial sayings and one invaluable
charm against snalxe-bite given by the
Lord Buddha himself to Amanda
Whether at the poles or the equator,
the worlds people are really travelling
around the sun with the earth itself al
the rate of about 81, 900 miles an hour
The earth's motion is one of compare
lively slow rotation, yet Of swift pro
gress on it, orbit This motion ID moi
perccptible. any more than passenger
J at sea, who is shut up in his state room
below, knows how fast he 10 going.
M. CASTOR Tissandier has recentl,
; drawn attention to what he CALI
: Photographic mirage" Three year
ago NJ. Paul Roy photographed hi
! young son in the open day. and on de
: veloping the picture found to his sur
prise q vague image of himself in tn
background, as he stood in the act o
e removing the cap from the lens to TAX
the photograph. AS a matter of fact
e his image had been formed on the al
e mospheric haze, and. although invisibl
to his eyesight. it was strong enough t
' affect the plate-Boston Transcript.
( Cats are not the only creatures tina
9 enjoy q plurality of lives; MANY animal
have remarkable power of existin
|. while apparently dead. Infusoria hav
l. been dried, and restored to life by mois
n ening after remaining inert dust fc
n twenty-seven years, and the drying an
I" and resuscitation have been success
+" fully tried eleven times on one lot I
i rotifers. Frogs and many fishes suf-s
a no injury from freezing solid; while,
II few cases. even warm-blooded an
mails have been restored to life-afts
apparent death from freezing.
:" Weighing the earth is a probes
t. which has often interested and amuse
scientists, and various efforts have bee
e made to determine with some degree
q accuracy the probable approxima'
= weight of the globe on which we liv
:; In IRA q series of curious experiment
q was made by Prof. Maskelyne in Moul
rs schihallion, in SCOTLAND, by which
- determined the singular fact that Il
- attraction exerted by the mounta
&c mass ON the plumb line caused it to
~ viate nearly six seconds from the pc
= pendicular. Long and abstruse cdlc
a lations followed. on the details of whi'
20 it is not necessary to dwell, but the !
a. suit was, taking the diameter of Il
n, earth as 7,9124i miles and the weig
~ of cubic foot Of water as 81. SO pound
- the weight Of the earth was calculat
n to be s, s42, 900. 000 900. 600, OoO, 900 tons
nc 2. $40 pounds each. Baltimore Sun.
=. Obsolete Bridal Customs.
~, There was q certain old custc
n which, unluckily for the brides of
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