The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1894-02-24
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.


SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.
North Dakota has several wheat
farms of 10000 70 $4,000 acres each.
Over 210, 900 tons of buffalo bones, rep
resenting 1900. 900 animals, have been
exported from this state.
The public cannot too clearly under
stand that medical science has nothing
more valuable to offer than its nom
medicinal suggestions. grounded on
clinical and laboratory research
health maxims which, as the Paris
profigate told his doctor. ANY fool
knows" something Of, and which, l may
add, all fools decline to pay for except
in bitter personal experience.
CALIFORNIA; vintage this year will
be about 5000, 900 gallons. some $780,
900 gallons more than last years yield,
and the quality will be good. 1t is ex-
pected that the vintage of the state
will show decrease during the next
ten years, owing to the ravages of
phylloxera and to overplanting. The
low prices caused by overproduction
tend also to place check on the In
dustry.
-One way of toughening ourselves is
by means of q cold foot bath. We take
cold through the feet as often rs any
way; by putting them in cold water for
about ten seconds, morning and night.
and then rubbing them till they are
red. is grand remedy for all this, and
toughens us very much Ten or fifteen
seconds are long enough, and even less
will do in the first few times. 1t Is UNI
wise to prolong this bath, and may do
harm.
Speaking of snakes, in answer to
question by Ruslin .What use has .
serpent for its tongueY' Mr.. Hudson.
after denying that it Is an insect
catching organ, . decoy, or q tao
tile organ, suggests that the snake
uses its tongue to concentrate the at
| tention Of an intended victim upon its
head, while its body is being trailed
forward to effect the capture.
"A sort of anti-decay apparatus has
been invented for preserving pictures.
It is glass tray with solid back, and
the picture is put inside and hermet-
ically sealed. The air is then ex-
hausted with an air pump, with the
result that in this vacuum the paint
will preserve its pristine freshness pref
| ty well forever, unless the thing leaks.
New England mackerel catch this
season was 81, AS barrels, an increase
of some 1000 barrels over that of last
| year, 16, 600 over that of the year be-
| fore, and more than three times the
catch of 1890. This does not, however,
indicate steady growth Of the indus
| try, for the size of the catch huctu-
ates greatly. In 1883 it was over A, 900
barrels, and fell to between 16, 600 and
II, 900 the two succeeding seasons.
1T may not be known to the general
| reader that rife ball DETECTED from
| its course immediately resumes its line
of fight after trimming the object it is
unable to pass directly through That
| is to say, ball turned from its course
| by rib passes under the skin until it
reaches point mathematically oppo-
site to the point where it entered the
soldiers body and then passes out. re-
Stunning its exact line Of fight, If enough
of its initial velocity remains
Goat raising is. an important and
| growing industry in Oregon and some
other northwestern states. One rancher
| in Benton county. Ore. has . fine herd Of
$50 goats, which includes number Of
thoroughbred Angora bucks Twenty
two cents . pound il the lowest this
man has received for fleece in dozen
years, while frequently he has re-
ceived thirty to thirty-1ive cents .
pound The average yield from goat
is about four pounds, but eight to ten
| pounds is frequently obtained from
high grade goats The goats are not
only valuable for their fleece, but in
clearing OF land, as they subsist large
| ~ on brush and weeds
I'm the ice age the thickness of the
ice which covered northeastern Penn
sylvania has been supposed to be great
enough to rise twenty-five hundred
feet above the sea level Until short
time ago no signs of glacial action had
been discovered at q loftier elevation
| than this, but Mr.. John C. Bravner has
explored Elk Mountain, which is be-
lieved to be the highest point in north
ern Pennsylvania, and there he found
scratches made by the ice at an alti-
tude of about twenty-seven- hundred
feet. It is evident, therefore, that the
| ice sheet which over spead this region
during the glacial epoch must have
been thicker than geologists have hith-
erto thought
The True GentIeman.