The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1894-12-29
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY

THAT lizards viii and eat but
tGfies is stated by Jane Frazier in an
article in London chronological j6ur-
nal In the Samoan islands she saw a
skipper butterfly when lighted
caught and Instantly swallowed by a
beautiful golden-green lizard with
bright blue tail.
The British Medical journal states
that the comparison of figures obtained
from various sources leads to the belief
that down to the middle of July the
mortality from the plague in Canton
alone amounted to 10000 people. In
striking contrast stanes ont the health
of the foreign community in Canton,
who passed through the epidemic un-
scathed. This immunity they owe in
large measure to the excellent sanitary
arrangements that prevail.
Engineers have completed trip
up the st. Joseph river and its branches
in the interest of the project of Toledo
capitalists to build canal to Chicago
across Lake Michigan to Michigan
City, to Elkhart, through a series OF
lakes and rivers to the Maumee, close
to the state line, down the Wabash
canal, taking in Defiance and Napoleon,
O., and making Toledo the terminus.
The principal reasons that we feel
objects that are cold, when brought in
contact with the skin, quicker than
those that are warm, is that the skin,
being very poor conductor of heat,
absorbs heat slowly from an object of
q higher temperature than itself;
while other objects, which are cooler,
and which in nearly every instance are
better conductors of heat than the
skin, absorb heat quite readily from
the skin, and hence a sensation OF cold
is felt at once.
The railways centering at Pitts
burg carried a very heavy passenger
business on the occasion of the recent
Grand Army reunion in that city. On
Tuesday, the 18th, the Pennsylvania
railroad brought into the Union sta
ton 5000 people, through and local;
in the first four days of the week the
Baltimore & Ohio, including Pittsburg
& Western, brought in $1,000, and the
Pittsburg & Lake Erie about $4,000,
through and local. On Monday and
Tuesday the. Pittsburg & Ft. Wayne
brought 1924, and the Panhandle
1884. The other lines also did big
business.
Several interesting discoveries re-
garding prehistoric man have been an
nounced. The remains recently found
in Switzerland show the existence in
the neolithic age of race of pygmies
in Europe. Herr Mascha has unearthed
within few days in Moravia many re-
mains of mammoths, and with them
the skeletons of whole human family
almost gigantic in size. The discovery
seems to settle the disputed point
whether man was coexistent with the
mammoth. In Guatemala an explorer
reported the discovery in an ancient
mound of many small jars, each con-
tanning the remains of little finger
from the human hand. 1t is supposed
to have been the custom of mourners
in some prehistoric race to make this
sacrifice.
The development of chick within
the egg is one of the most wonderful
things in nature. At the end of the
fifty-eighth hour of incubation the
heart begins to beat, two vesicles are
seen, and few hours later the auricles
also appear; on the fourth day, the
outlines of the wings may be perceived
and sometimes Of the head also; on the
fifth day the liver is visible; on the
sixth, other internal organs appear; in
100 hours the beak is fully formed; in
200 hours the ribs are clearly devel-
oped; in 24O hours the feathers are
visible; in 26s hours the eyes appear;
in 2ss, the ribs are completed and the
feathers on the breast; in $50, the
lungs, stomach and breast have as
sumeda natural appearance. On the
eighteenth day the first faint piping Of
the chick is sometimes audible.
NATURAL HISTORY