The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-02-04
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

SClENCE ANU tNOOSInIs
| During the last year nearly 8 900. 900
of skins were imported into England.
| Of Australian opossum there were z, 254,-
| 600: of muskrat, 1895, 00o; skunk, 554, O0o;
raccoon, $40, 100; fur seals, l25, 700; bear,
IL, 700; beaver, 1900; chinchilla, 7,70o,
and otter, 1900
1t appears that colored or dark
pigment in the olfactory regions Is
essential to perfect smell. In cases
where animals are pure white they ar,
usually otally devoid OF both smell and
taste; and some, the white cat for IN
stance, are aim ost invariably deaf.
The use of commercial fertilizers
in Japln is of comparatively recent
date. owing to their cost. the profits OF
japanese farmers being Ill There is
one factory making nearly $1,000 tons OF
superphosphate. annually. and about
5, 600, 900 pounds of bone are imported
from Corea.
notwithstanding the great re-
sources of New South Wales as timber
growing country, the importation OF
wood is very considerable, amounting
in 1890 to nearly 1000, 033 feet of dressed
timber valued at s325,0oo, and over
sc. 900. 900 feet of undressed valued at
81, zoo, 900, besides other kinds.
The earth reaches that point in its
orbit nearest the sun about the LIST OF
January, and the point farthest from
the sun about the 1st of July. We are
g. J0, 900 miles nearer the sun on the LIST
of January than on the LIST of July,
hence the southern hemisphere is
warmer than the northern.
The remains of carnivorous mar
supial mammals closely allied to the
existing couched wolf, or Thylacine, OF
Tasmania, have been made by Amsghi-
no in the tertiary strata of Patagonia
!, This will be of interest from the fact
, that no marsup ais except opossuuis
occur outside of Australasia.-N Y.
Independent.
An improvement in the prepare.
. ton of lubricants is soap, formed by
: treating wool grease with alkaline lye.
This is dissolved in water and filtered.
! and to this solution another of alum is
added forming brown precipitatc.
= From this, when dry, lubricating oils
: of any viscosity may be produced by
a simply dissolving it in fluid mineral oil.
Q But one species of venonous bird is
known to the student of pathological
oddities, the Rpir NDoob or bird oil
DEATH" feathered paradox OF New
Guinea. Persons bitten by the creature
are seized by maddening pains, which
rapidly extend to every part of the
body. Loss of sight, commissions and
lockjaw are the other symptoms, which
follow in rapid succession
Fatigue caused by brain work act
as a poison which affects all the organs,
n especially the muscular system Tn
" blood of dogs fatigued by long racing
u also acts as poison. and when injected
into other dogs makes them exhibit al
III the symptoms of fatigue. Sense of ia
N tigue seems to be due to the products
y of the nerve cells rather than to de
II ficiency of proper substance.
M Balland has communicated t
the Academy of Sciences, Paris. the re
suits of his investigations as to tn
corroiibility of aluminium, with specia
- references to its use for domestic COOS
- ing utensils, etc. He concludes tina
=. this metal is not SO easily attacked a
:. iron, copper, lead, zinc or tin by air
water, wine, beer, coffee, milk, oil
butter, gas, urine or saliva Vinega
, and salt attack it, bat not to such a
!. extent as to render its use undesirable
= Electrical Age.
Or The combined Australasian colo
10 MES have 1850, 900 hogs, and their i'm
n ports of hog products last year wer
valued at over $500, 900, almost the whol
e, of it being in bacon and hams The as
v, gregate value of the poultry, eggs an
ee honey products is s. 100000. With tota
n. products, in 1891, of 69,0oo,Oo) pound
ge of butter and 19,0Oo.0o pounds {
cheese, they imported 762, 900 pounds I
no butter and 1, S42, 900 pounds of cheese
Id The weaker teas of China are bein
H. displaced by the stronger teas of Indi
or and Ceylon, and within the past fiv
n years, while the import of Ceylon te;
". into Great Britain has increased fv
err fold, the quantity of China tea impor
NJ has diminished about one-half. This
illustrates phase of colonial policy TIL
20 is becoming very noteworthy over tn
y, water. Everything has been done to e.
III courage Ceylon tea-growing and make
IN market for the product in Great Britai
as "
-er FUN FOR THE GIRLS.
One of Them Discourses About Male Pr
IL chasers of Safety Pins.