The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-03-11
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.


The total production of white lead
IN the world is about $50, 900 tons per
annum, OF which the United States pro-
duces about one third.
The old theory that the deepest
place in the ocean will be found to cor
respond almost exactly with the height
Oh the highest mountain has been dis
proved by measurements taken within
year, which show ocean depths 10, 600
feet deeper than the highest mountain
peaks
An experiment of Marcy's proves
that mastication will accelerate the
now OF blood through the carotid artery
and serves to show the wisdom of an
editor who used to eat figs while writ
ing leading article, and even of those
VINO INDUCED in the practice SO dis
agreeable to their neighbors of chewing
tobacco
The difference in the height of the
perpetual snow line is due to tempera-
turc. The western slopes are warmed
by warm winds from the Pacific Ocean,
the eastern slopes by land winds, hence
the difference. In the Himalaya noun
tains the difference in the altitude of
the snow line on the two slopes is still
more apparent
The potato crop in Jersey has not
been as profitable to growers this year
MS last The average crop for ten years
past has been 2,072 900 bushels, worth
1880, 900 annually. The 1892 crop was
2,1S4, 600 bushels. only 1880 less than
in 1891, but its value to farmers was
sl,Ss5, 900, as compared with ~, $40, 900
Tor the 1891 crop.
In British Guiana magnificent tim
Der covers thousands of square miles,
some of the woods being very handsome
and suitable for best cabinet work,
while others are very valuable for
works of public character. There is
plenty OF good land suitable for cocoa,
coffee and cotton, and no agricultural
industry is carried on except sugar
culture.
The hair on the ordinary doll is
made from the hair of the Angora goat;
this product is controlled by an English
syndicate and is valued at $40, 900 900 a
year. After the hair is prepared it is
sent to Munich and made into wigs by
girls, who receive twenty cents a dozen
wigs. Human hair is used only for
what are known as the ''last dolls"
that is, dolls for big girls, who like to
do mp their dolls hair in the latest style.
In Queensland, there arc 1000 acres
of land under cotton cultivation, and
farmers everywhere are turning their
attention to its further growth. Owing
to excessive rain the season has been
against them, but in some cases a ton
OF cotton per acre was secured, the
quality being pronounced excellent by
local experts in the colonies who also
claim that it is much superior to ordi-
nary American cotton.
To form some idea of the largcncss
of this earth. one may look upon the
landscape from the top of an ordinary
church steeple, and then bear in mind
that one must view 900. 900 similar land
scapes to get an approximately correct
idea of the size OF the earth. Place 500
earths, like ours sid. by side, yet Sat
urn's outermost ring could easily en-
close them. Three hundred thousand
earth-globes could be stored inside of
the sun. if hollow.
"A Mons Moricourt has invented a
process for metalizing textile fabrics,
whereby it is claimed that they are
rendered proof against the attacks of
microbes. The materials, wool, flannel,
calico. etc, are immersed for about an
hour in an ebullient bath composed of
kilogrammes of suiphate of copper,
lsilogramme of sulphate acid and 1000
liters of water. On removal from
the fuid the fabric is calendered
and dried The finish thus obtained
will, it is said, bear two or three wash
ings before it is again required to sub
ject the cloth to the metalizing opera
tion.-ScientiHc American.
Bees arc very fastidious in the mat
ter of smells; they appear to object
to the human breath, especially
that of persons recovering from illness;
therefore, to approach hive with
safety be cautious how you breathe.
1t is probably chiefly by the sense of
smell that bees and ants recognize
their friends-that is, the members of
the same hive or colony-for bees
sprinkled with scented strip and then
introduced into strange hive will not
be molested, as other intruders inva.ia-
bly, are.
A had Habit.