The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-04-15
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

I'm thunderstorm it is unsafe To
take refuge under q white poplar. as
that tree seems to attract lightning.
M. Ovaroff, scientist of Moscow.
suggests that householders be COM
PEELED to plant white poplar before
each residence to prevent the houses
from being fred by lightning.
"A fine specimen of the egg of
Epyornis, the extinct giant bird of
Madagascar, and obtained from South
ern madagascar, was exhibited at re-
cent meeting of the Geological society of
London. twill be remembered that this
egg is about thirteen inches long and of
the capacity of $50 hens eggs.
cooperative or joint stock farming
Is being conducted on large scale in
the region of the Dombes lying between
Bourg- Enbresse and Lyons France.
Plantations, drainage, artificial ma
nures have in twenty years reduced the
area of marsh land by two-thirds, in
creased the population by one-third,
and in the same proportion diminished
mortality"
The staple of fool for the 500, 600
natives of Natal and the Zulus alone is
white corn. 1t is ground into coarse
meal and boiled with water making or.
binary porridge. Last years corn crop
was good one, leaving $50, 600 bushels
for export but this year there is short
age OF 200, 900 bushels. An importation of
corn began before the close of last year.
NO living germ of disease can re-
sist the antiseptic power of essence OF
cinnamon for more than few hours"
is the conclusion announced by M.
Chamberlain as the result of pro, onged
research and experiment in NJ. Pasteurs
laboratory. 1t is said to destroy mi
crobes as effectively, If not as as rapid
ly as corrosive subiimate Even the
scent of it is fatal to microbes, and Nj.
Chamberlain says decoction of CHINA
mon should be taken freely by persons
living in places affected by typhoid OK
cholera
Recent reports, mainly in the ma
ture OF sober statements of facts, iadi-
Gates considerable quantity of gold in
Nova Scotia. At Caribou, Halifax
county, the first week of this month, a
little over $50 ounces of gold was
smelted from trihe more than thirty
tons Of quartz The gold was worth
$4,000, and represented clear profit
OF $4,000 ever working expenses. Four
teen men were just twenty-six days get
ting out the quartz 1t is estimated
that the principal gold strike there is
worth 125 ounces 20 the ton of quartz.
During the year 1892 about 4. 100
miles of railroad were built in the
United States This brings the total
railway mileage of the United States
up to ia, 900 miles, or about As per cent.
OF the total railway mileage of the
world. The longest line constructed
was the Pacific extension of the st.
Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba railroad
to Puget sound, SIS miles, completing
another transcontinental route. Nc
railway was built in FIVE states; but
one mile was built in Kansas, and the
greatest mileage was built in Washing
ton, 42G miles.
There are very important evidences
of internal heat derived from the uni
versal PHENOMENON of fairly uniform
increase of temperature in all deep
wells, mines, borings or tunnels. This
increase has been usually reckoned as
dcgree +. for each 90 feet of descent !
but recent very careful estimate by |
Prof Prestwich, derived from the whole |
of the available data, gives l degree +.
for every 47.5 feet of descent. 1t is a
curious indication of the universa atty of |
this increase that even in the coolest |
parts of Siberia, where the soil is frozen |
TO depth of $50 feet, there is steady |
increase in the temperature of this
frozen soil from the surface downward. |