The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1894-01-20
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.


lin India, certain regiments with
$50 men were placed under obsorga
ton. They were divided into fre<
drinkers, moderate drinkers and alb
stainers. 1t was found that the death,
of the former were a per 1000, of the
moderate drinkers % per 1000, and Of
the abstainers only II per !, 1000.
The depth to which the suns rays
penetrate water has been recently de.
termined by the aid Of photography. II
has been found that at depth of SIS
feet the darkness was to all intents
and purposes the same as that ON q
clear but moonless night. Sensitized
plates exposed at this depth for a con-
siderable length of time gave no evi.
dence of light action.-Scientific Amer
lean.
The New York clearing house loan
certificates have all been cancelled. The
first issue of certificates was on June
II, when %, $50. 900 were issued. A total
of Sal ,490, 900 were issued. but the max
imum amount outstanding at any one
time was sSs, $50. 900. 1t is said that of
the $50, SEC, 900 of collateral deposited
to secure the certificates issued this
year not a single dollar, as far rs Is
known, proved bad.
Arkansas has 100, 900 farms which
produces SOC, 900 bales of cotton, 900,-
900 bushels of sweet potatoes, 1000, 600
pounds of tobacco. a., 900. 600 bushels of
corn, and 2,O00.0 600 bushels of wheat.
From the Arkansas forests are cut
over $40, o0o. 900 of lumber every year.
One art that seems to have vastly
improved within the last TWENTY-FIVE
years is that of annealing glass. The
lamp chimneys of to-day withstand
sudden changes of temperature that
would instantly have shivered those of
three decades ago. and it seems now
almost impossible to break one save by
q blow
1T appears from the official statis-
tics of the production of gold in Rus
STA In 1892 that the output Of the mines
has been greatly increased by the inn
provement of technical appliances. The
production of the precious metal has
reached a total of no less than 2, COL
puds as compared with 1852 puds in
1891 and only a,041 puds in 1885. TAX
ing the value Of the pud on the aver
age at IA, 104 roubles, there is thus q
total of &c. 67O, 900 roubles, or upward
of $25. 0OO, 600
Florida and California fruit is COM
peting successfully with Mediterranean
products in European markets this
year, and the shipments already are
largely in excess of those of previous
years Successful experiments have
also been made this year with ship
ments of California and Washington
fruit to japan and other countries of
the Orient. From twenty-acre prune
ranch Washington grower obtained
this year forty tons of dried fruit
which he sold in Portland at s150a ton.
The movements of the herring have
long been q sore puzzle to naturalists
and from the annual report of the fish,
cry board for Scotland they seem to be
, puzzle still 1t was originally sup
posed that the herring was bred in
Arctic seas and that, marshaled by q
'ort of king fish, dense shoals of them
every season came south. 1t is known
now that herring spawn of the English
coasts, but all efforts toward getting
It the truth about the migratory habits
nave been unsuccessful. All sorts of
have been tried, Five hun
ired fish were captured and released
lfter piece of aluminium wire bearing
! disc had been attached to their dorsal
in, but not one returned to tell its
ale. They fit about the coasts in the
most erratic manner. The one thing
positive seems to be that they never 90
'ery far away or for very long. If one
ishing town has an occasional lean
ear there is always an abundant har