The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-01-14


One million and half men work !,
the coal mines of the world. OF thes,
England has 5s5. 900; United States, $50.
600; Germany, 2s5, 200; Belgium, 100, 900
Russia, 1900. The worlds miners @
metal number 1000, 900.
Cocaine sometimes kills. This fac
was forcibly demonstrated in the case O
Benjamin NJ. Noe at Bellevue hospital
New York, recently. Death came al
most as soon as the drug was admin.
lstered and the doctors do not doub,
that cocaine was the fatal agent
"A French technical journ Il recon-.
mends the use of coal tar for water.
PROBING masonry. A small amount oI
India rubber dissolved by benzine will
increase its durability. 1t should be
applied boiling hot. AMI if the color
should be objectionablei it can be busted
with plaster of paris before drying.
1t was lately quoted in British ship
ping circles as proof of the depression
affecting the shipping trade that a
splendid four-masted iron bark of . ono
tons register, owned on the Clyde, came
into port from Australia in ballast. was
unable to get cargo, and sailed back
Tor the antipodes again with the same
ballast she brought with her.
The whale industry was taken ND
early by the New England colonies,
and at first the fishery was prosecuted
by boats from the shore, In the first
part OF the eighteenth century, how
ever, the whales had been driven off.
and vessels were now fitted out for their
pursuit from Nantucket, Caps Cod.
Martha's Vineyard and New Bedford. In
1854 the traffic reached its elimination.
Clouds continue to form around
storms in a continuous sheet, thickest
near the center of the storm, ali thin
nest and highest at its outer limits.
The temperature is high in front of
storms and low in their rear. The first
indication of an approaching storm are
the finely drawn out, tibrous clouds.
which may be one hundred miles in adj
vance of the storm.
"A correspondent of Nature gives
the following interesting facts relating
to the strength possessed by certain
animals. The shell-less limpet pulls
1854 times its own weight when in the
air, and about double when immersed
in water. Fasting fleas on an average
pull ], 493 times their own dead weight,
while the Mediterranean cookie, Venus
verrucosa, can exert a pulling power
to 2,071 times the weight of its own
body. So great is the power possessed
NV the tba< - =
equal to 1319.5 times the weight of its
body is required.
"A ray of light moves with such
amazing velocity that it might wrap
itself eight times round the earth be-
tween five ticks of the clock, and vet
it would take that ray of light fifty
years to come from the North star to
this earth. When we look at that stead
last, unchanging star at night we see it !
in the light that left it half a century |
igo; and if the Omnipotent hand that |
formed it, set it in its place and called it |
BY name should suddenly destroy it, we |
would continue to see it in it's own light |
ifty years after it had ceased to exist.
Some silk worms lay from !, 900 to
1000 eggs, the wasp 5000, the ant from
1000 to 5000. The number of eggs laid
~ the queen bee has long been in dis
'ute. Burmeister says from 5000 to
1000, but Spence and Kirby both go him
everal better, each declaring that the
queen of average fertility will lay no
ess than 20, 900 and probably as high as
1000 in one season. Ternes fatalis
he white ant, is possessed of the most
egg-laying propensities
I any known creature; she often pro-
uces SO, 400 eggs in a single day. From
he time when the white ant begins to
~ until the egg-laying season is over
usually reckoned by entomologists as
n exact lunar month-she produces
500. 900 eggs. In point of fecundity
he white ant exceeds all other crea-
ares.
One of the difficult problems that
rchitects have to consider in erecting
cry high buildings is wind bracing.
he variation of practice is wide, show
lg that ideas differ in regard to details
nd the amount and operation of forces
} be resisted. In designing metal struc-
Tres engineers agree substantially, the
reatest differences being in regard to
lie use of cast iron and the relative
erits of hollow tile walls and of iron
steel rods as vertical bracing. 1t is
id that some architects depend wholly
1 ordinary partitions for lateral sta
lily, no matter how much they may
; weakened by openings. 1t is all
ght to have the exterior walls mere
,terior curtain to shield the interior
etal frame, but the frame should be
'aced efficiently. Vibrations due to
RS, trucks and dynamos have to be +,
nsidered also
WHAT Is A GIRL RACHEL Opp