The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1894-01-13
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.


Holland excels the world in 4
average yield of potatoes That couu
try produces 1T bushels to the acre
Italy comes next, with 1914; Germany
fsl2i; France, 10a; the United States, "a
wells Science of Common Things
says that if our atmosphere could b,
condensed until it would occupy n,
more space than the same weight O.
water, it would only extend to an ele
vation of "a feet above the surface O.
the earth.
-"Onchyophagy'' is new word
coined by French doctor, who think:
he has discovered that when school
girls bite their nails it is because of q
deranged condition of the nervous sys.
tenn, for which supposed arrangement
he has invented the above name.
The problem of profitably produc-
ing beet sugar in the west has appar.
emily been solved. The factory al
Norfolk, Neb., has manufactured and
sent to market, within about four
weeks, fifty-two carloads of the best
graduated sugar, made from beets
raised in Nebraska soil.-Kansas CITY
Journal
The rice harvest on the farm near
Kissimme, Fla, that has heretofore
been worthless, yielded about sixty
bushels per acre for the first crop, and
the second crop will yield about twenty
bushels more. This will put Florida
rice in the market at time when there
is very little competition, and will
bring better prices than later in the
season.
When Lord Beaconsfield invested
something over $40, 1000, 900 of British
funds in the Suez canal enterprise
eighteen years ago, there was a great
deal OF moaning, but the investment
has proved a valuable one. The Brit
lsh treasury has received per cent. on
Its money, and the stocks are now
worth sss, $50, 600, or more than four
times their cost.-Milwaukee Journal.
-Four hundred and sixty-one degrees
below the freezing point of the Fahren-
heit thermometer lies mysterious,
specially indicated degree of cold which
science has long been gazing toward
and striving to attain, wondering mean
while what may be the condition Of
matter at this unexplored point It's
existence has long been indicated and
its position established.
1t is stated that Argentina wheat
can be grown-fifteen bushels to the
acre-at a profit of thirteen cents a
bushel il sold in Europe at seventy
cents bushel. The crop this year, #
is added, is IS, oO0 900 bushels over and
above the needs for home consumption.
In the eight months ended August 81
there were nearly 20, 900, 900 bushels Of |
the surplus exported. But one-twen-
tieth OF the area of Argentina suitable
for wheat growing is now under Guilt
vation.
"A very interesting topic, which Is
winning its way to attention, is the
periodic and secular variation of the
latitude OF places on the earth's sur.
lace. Prof Chandler has been labor
ously investigating these movements
Tor some time. He has examined rec
'rds extending over the last half cent
Try, and including $4,000 observations
u latitude, and has come to the con-
'lusion that the observed value of lati-
ude is the resultant arising from the
of two periodic fiuctua-
ions. These are-(a) one of 427 days
lue to separation of the axis of rota-
ion from the chief axis of inertia, and
81 an annual one due to the periodic
hitting of the earth's center of gravity
a connection with seasonal redistribu- I
ions OF moisture.
Thu fo111u,;x, A.
tructions for bringing on hypnotic
RANGES: Take any bright object and
old it between the fingers Of the left
and, about foot from the eyes of the
erson upon whom the experiment il
eing tried, in such position above
ne forehead as to produce the greatest
rain compatible with steady, fixed
axe at the object. The person must
len be directed to fix the mind on the '
bject he is gazing at. His pupils will '
rst contract and then diIate consider '
bly,, and after they are well di-
ted the first and second finger of the S
,erator's right hand (extended and q y
tile separately should be carried from Q
Ie object toward the patients eve. Il
hen this is done the eyelids will most a
close. Carry out these direc- d
ons and in few seconds the person G
III be thoroughly hypnotized. O
The earth has not been put in a n
ale and balance against known q
eight but mathematicians have cal
lated it's weight. Prof. Maskelyne fl
st attacked this subject in IRA. C
hen, by repeated experiments, he s
termined the attraction exerted at p
punt Schihallion. in Perthshire, Scot c,
nd, on plumb line, which it caused q
deviate from the perpendicular near b.
six seconds Piayfair, Cavendish. W
ltton and other scientists then deter w
ned that the structure of this noun d.
IN made it have density, as COM al
red to the mean density of the earth. w
five to nine. Then the comparative fl
nsity OF Schihalli6n to water was pr
and that of earth to water la