The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1894-09-22
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

The brewers Ol Now IOI wy PiO-
duced 5000 900, 900 glasses of beer last
year.
Counterfeit whalebone is coming |
into use as the genuine article becomes |
scarce.
A gas well at Montpelier, Ind, has
changed its tune, and oil flows freely
from its mouth.
1t is proposed by the Argentine gov
eminent to make an extended survey of
the mineral resources of that country.
Coffee planting was formerly the
most important single industry of Cey-
lon now tea is the principal article OF
export.
The casualties on all American rail.
roads in April, 1891, were less than in
any corresponding month for twenty
years.
-Aue.ralian provincial officials keep
| poisoned grain in their Offices for the
/ benefit of farmers who wish to destroy
| small birds.
| At the altitude of twelve miles the
| atmosphere has density of about one
tenth that of the surface; that is. the
barometer would stand at about three
inches.
Prof. Milton Whitney. of Johns
Hopkins university, has determined
that in an ordinary wheat soil there
are at least ten thousand million soil
grains in gram about a pint, and in
some of the finest soils this number has
reached twenty-four thousand millions.
The blue mould on cheese resem-
bles bread mould. 1t bears cluster OF
branches, each of which is layer OF
naked spores, like string of beads, all
breaking apart when matured. These
produce new fungi. This same mould
is found on old leather, and oftentlmes
develops on the surface OF preserved
fruits.
The results of examinations oil
European statistics by NJ. Lagneau &c
to show that as among occupations con-
sumption is most prevalent among per-
sons whose work is sedentary: while
persons living in the open air enjoy an
almost complete immunity. From an
other point of view consumption ap
pears to increase in towns rapldIy VIII
the density of population.
The large collection of Egyptian
papvrus documents discovered severa
wears ago at Ell Fayoum has lately
a been placed on exhibition at Vienna D!
the Archdul1e Rainier, whose property
they are. These papyri are said t.
= cover period of $500 years and to con
i tain evidence that the Egyptians in TIL
tenth century knew the use of type II
a printing. The documents are WRITER
: in eleven different languages.
- A Hungarian chemist, DIR. johann
= Antal. already honorably known TO
v his researches in toxicology, has re
!, ported to the Hungarian Society
II PHYSICIANS that he has discovered
a new chemical compound, the nitrate c
r cobalt. which. he says, is most ettici
% cious antidote to poisoning by cyaI
ide of potassium or prussic acid. II
h tried the antidote first on animals an
=. afterward on forty living persons VIII
had been accidentally poisoned wit
-. prussic acid. In not a single case di
10 the andidote prove failure.-Bosto
"A Journal of Commerce.
Masses of petrified fir wood an
~ bark. which show the lines plain
"a marked of the different stages
80 growth. are reported to have been four
1e in the regulation formation OF san
- stone reef in the mines at New Castl
w Washington. "a remarkable poi
~. about beth specimens is that on Il
: inner side of the bark is a deposit OF
~ white crystalline substance, ana ru
- ming in the veins through the wood
the same material. 1t is harder tn;
Is steel and cuts glass like diamond. b
,,s seems to be nothing but crystalliz
,s pitch. Another specimen is fir wood
=. more advanced stage toward CO..
~ with pieces of petrified resin imbedd
~ 4 lndnlr,i mia i .ndunr.