The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1894-04-21

SSSeNCE AND INDUSTRY.
New York il the FIRST manufactur.
ing city in the country. 1t has ii. 00C
factories. which make every year $780,
600, 900 worth of goods, including $780,.
900. 900 Of clothing. s25, 0oo, 900 of books
and papers, and e1s. 0O0. 900 Of cigars
Central park covers s6s acres and cost
81, ZOO, 900.
Chicago has over thirty elevators,
which handle 140, 600, 900 bushels Of
grain every year. The Union stock
yards cover $50 acres and cost %, 00o,-
600. They have eight miles Of streets
and receive 5000. 900 head of STOCK
every year. The meat exports exceed
800, 600, 900.
On the Andes. in latitude two de-
grees, the limit of perpetual snow is
IA. go feet. In Mexico, latitude nine
teen degrees, the limit is 1880 feet;
on the peak of Teneriffe, II, 454 feet;
on Mt. Etna, 5000 feet; on Caucasus,
$500 feet; ON the Pyrenees, 8, 400 feet;
in Lapland. 800 feet; in Iceland, 1890
feet.
IN. Gaulp, writing to Paris publ
cation from Russia, says that the cul-
tivation of cotton in the Zarafshan
district of that country has developed
wonderfully since American varieties
of the plant have been introduced. At
first the natives were SO prejndiced
against the new plants that the expert
ment failed.
Chicago manufactures every year
e16, 000, 600 of agricultural implements,
IS, 600. 900 of carriages, %. 900, 600 of fur
niture, Is, 900. 900 of clothing, %, 500. 600
of leather, $40, 000. 900 of iron and steel,
SIS, 0OO, 900 of planned lumber, q, 500, 900
of malt liquors, g, 500. 900 of distilled
liquors, IS. 600. 900 of soap. IS, 0o0, 900 of
tobacco and cigars, $1,000. 900 of cut
stone.
"A celestial body is said to be
eclipsed when it is immersed in the
shadow of another. Thus . lunar
eclipse is caused by the moon entering
the shadow of the earth. Jupiter's sat
elites are frequently eclipsed by pass
ing through the shadow cast by their
primary. A solar eclipse is due to the
Interpolation of the moon between the
sun and earth. and the phenomenon is
strictly an occultation. but the former
term Is retained for convenience.
z The Massachusetts, State Board OF
Health concludes. from investigations
of artificial ice, that artificial processes
OF freezing concentrate the impurities
of the water in the inner core of the
portion last frozen; that the impurities
are least If distilled water is used; that
the number of bacteria in artificial ice
is insignificant under the prevailing
methods of manufacture, and that the
amount of zinc found in ice is insult
cient to cause injury from its use.
Micro organisms are present In the
air, the water and the earth. They
are not only on the earth. but the
upper layers of terrestrial crust are
with them. They are carried
by the atmosphere rs dust, and de-
posted upon the surface of all objects.
They exist in vast numbers upon and
In the human body. They are present
with the body in life, and do not leave
Il in death until it is resolved into the
elements. Hence there can be NO doubt |
but they are an important factor in
nature.
"A mining expert sent to investi-
gate some Arizona properties for Dem
yer capitalists reports the finding of q
most remarkable bridge formed by
tree OF agatized wood, spanning .
canyon forty-five feet in width. The
tree had at some remote time fallen
Ind become embedded in the silt Of |
'ome great inland sea or mighty water
overflow. The silt in time became !
and the wood gradually
passed through the stages of minerali-
sation. until it is now q wonderful tree
If solid agate. In after years, water
and ate away the sandstone
Until canyon forty-five feet in width
las been formed, the fiint-like sub
stance of the agatized wood having
assisted fha erosion Of fha nm ka,.Aoxr<