The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-08-05
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.


Exports Of wheat from India, be-
tween April, 1892, and February, 1898,
amounted to %, 104 bushels, being but
one-half the quantity exported during
the corresponding eleven months of the
preceding year.
"A coatimondi, a species of ant-eater,
which is owned by Joseph Wallace, Of
Brunswick, Ga, does not confine itself
to destroying ants, but has committed
several robberies of jewelry, money
and other articles of value. All the
articles, however, have been recovered
In out-of-the-way places, where the
animal had hidden them.
in spite of the fact that emigration
last year was against the Argentine
Republic, and that the country was
undergoing financial depression, the
total area under crops was $3.50, 900
acres, against I, 4S7, 900 acres in 1891, an
increase, within q year, of 1880
acres. The only woods which come to
the United States from the Argentine
are the Cordova carpet woods from ma
tive sheep, shipped mostly to the Bos-
ton mills.
"A timber expert makes the inter.
esting statement that the spruce lands
of Maine are to-day worth more than
were the pine lands of fifty years ago,
mainly because of the development of
the pulp business. He estimates the
value of wild lands at $40 per acre,
reckoning only eighty-fve cords to an
acre. There are nearly $500, 900 acres
of wild land in Maine, and assuming
that only a quarter of this is covered
with merchantable growth, tho total
valuation would be something like
al, ZOO, 900.
America had, in 1890, 2,7O0, 900
bread-winning women and girls work.
ing outside of their own homes. There
were ITO lawyers, 1855 ministers, $40
authors, 58S journalists, 2,O61 artists,
2, 1876 architects, chemists, pharmacists;
2, 106 stock raisers and ranchers, 5.13S
government clerks, Ass physicians
and surgeons, Is, 1872 professional musi-
clans, $4,000 farmers and planters,
21,071 clerks and bookkeepers, IA, 4e5
heads of commercial houses, 1856, 900
public school teachers (based on The
census of 1S80.)
The following careful statement by
Prof. E. s. Holden on the power of the
eye and the telescope, as they are con-
trasted in actual experience, is of spe-
cial and permanent interest: II the
brightness of star seen with the eye
alone is one, with 2-inch telescope IL
is one hundred times as bright, with q
4-inch telescope it is four hundred times
as bright, s-inch telescope 1t is 1000
times as bright, 16-inch telescope It IL
$500 times as bright, S9-inch telescope
it is q, 900 times as bright, 36-inch tele-
scope it is 80, 400 times as bright That
is, stars can be seen with the 3o-inch
telescope which are 30, 900 times fainter
than the faintest stars visible to the
naked eye.--Chicago Herald.
Photography has been introduced
into the clinical laboratory of DIR. Char
cot, the Partisan specialist. Instanta-
neous pictures have been taken of pa
tients. One shows a woman just at the
point of being hypnotized. The condi.
ton is being produced by mere look
and the sight of diamond. Other pho
tographs present patients in various
lethargic and cataleptic conditions.
One of the most remarkable of these
photographs shows hysterical contrac-
ton, and in this a strange phenomenon
is apparent One of the middle fingers
of the patient reaches far over the
wrist Under Improvisation the pa
tient appears to develop the faculty Of
frightening the middle finger abnor-
mally
Bees and birds court the society of
man--that is, they seek the locality
where fields and gardens abound, for
they fare better when human industry
EFFORTS from the soil the products upon
which they subs'st A Maine bee cul-
turist says it is the rarest thing in tho
world to find bees away from the set |
Elements, or from openings where
flowers grow. 1t is in the small patches
of forest they are oftenest found, and |
generally not far from the edge of the |
woods. 1t is the same with birds. There
are no song birds in the northern Maine |
and scarcely anything that |
can be called bird life. Birds cluster |
around towns and villages.
"A lecture on the Photographic study |
of the spectra of the stars was recently
delivered at the London institution. |
After describing the methods by which
the light of star as seen through a
prism is photographed, the lecturer
gave some account of the additions to
our knowledge of stellar physics which
have been thus obtained. The most
related to the probable
age of the sun. There is
reason to think, he said, that our sun
and the star Capella are about equally
Did. Arcturus and Aldebaran--thet type
Of yellow stars-are younger. On the
other hand, Sirius, the dog star, Rigel
md Vega, are regarded as older thar
The sun.
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