The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1894-02-17
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.
Nevada hss cent ont $500. ooo, 900 A
silver and gold. over 5000, o0o, 900 Of
which came from the Comstock mines.
Minnesota grows every year As, 000,.
900 bushels of wheat, As. 0o0, GOO Of oats,
q, 600, 600 of corn, and produces 472,.
900. 600 feet of lumber and 1s0, 600. 00o
shingles.
PROF. Hazen, of the weather on
reau, expresses the opinion that all
the conclusion experiments to produce
rain have been failures, and that those
conducted in Connecticut last summer
seemed to prolong the drought in that
section, while there was plenty Of rain
In all the region roundabout
"A vessel returned to San Francisco
from carrying supplies to the whaling
feet in the Arctic Ocean, north of
Alaska, reports that one whaler found
open water at the mouth Of the Mac
kenzie river, and had followed it in .
northerly direction until he reached q
point a little above 81 degrees, or
farther north than the Greedy expedi-
ton reached 1t will be interesting TO
know whether this report can be verb
fied.-Scientific American.
The whale feet sailing ont of the
port of San Francisco has this year
caught in Arctic regions no less than
1853 whales-probably larger number
than has been caught by whaleships
sailing from all the other ports Of the
country. Small steamers made larger
catches than were known in the his
tory of the whale fishery. The product
of this seasons catch would have been
represented by about s.. 900, 600 had
prices remained as they were about
three years ago.-San Francisco Call.
Thomas Kelly, Of Keokuk, IL,
writes that evidences of preglacial
river have been found, which in earlier
ages drained Lake Michigan westward
into what is now the Mississippi riDer.
Some of the places where this river run
are covered by nearly two hundred
feet of deposit. but the silt which occu-
pies the rivers bed is black, and con-
tains shells which show remains Of
earlier animal life, probable before
men lived on this planet z
1T is fact of striking magnitude
that more than 1900. 000, 900 of rail
road property in this country is now
in the hands of receivers There IL
likely to be a general reorganiza ton
of insolvent railroads, and the govern
ment proposes to take hand in the
reorganization of the Union Pacific, in
which it has q creditors interest Of
about So, 900, 900. Five great railroad
systems-the Union Pacific, Northern
Pacific, Reading, Erie and Richpond
Terminal-which now enjoy theS pro-
lection of receiverships, have q mileage
Of Is, 600 miles, combined funded in
of s517. 200. 900 and aggre-
gate assets exceeding ILL.,, 600, QD0.-
Post
The compromising advantages Of
fog are often overlooked. It would
appear that the special function of
log is to purify the atmosphere. Just
Is good shower of rain not bnly
,weeps the streets, but .'washes'( the
lir, so to speak, by dissolving such
Impurities as are capable Of solution;
70 the mysterious fog penetrating far
Ind wide searches for and gathers in
is embrace particles of carbon, organic
bases and all kinds of irritating insol- |
able ''specks,r mechanically suspended |
n the air. It is enough to see the pave
nent after the fog has in q measure
ubsided to realize from what impuri-
les we have been delivered.
-Georgia's experiments in tobacco
uIture have proved successful. A good |
rop was raised on the experimental |
arm at Waycross, and it has Just been
uccessful.y cured by the air-cc.ing |
'rocess. Experts pronounce The to- |
'acco very fine. It is to be made into
igars at Waycross factory. For sew
raj years the state government has |
cen doing much to encourage the to-
'acco industry in the state, yet the
resent house of Representatives in the
tate legislature passed bill week
r two since making it crime to ham
lie cigarettes, cigarette paper or cigar
tie tobacco, in any way and for any
The senate, hearing from
Vaycross maybe, threw out the bill
Prof Preyer, whose study of the
lfant mind is again attracting atten-
ON, returned somewhat ungracious
sply to the American women who
egged that he authorize them to Sc
'ct mothers in this country who
Mould watch the development of their
tile ones at home and send to him
,e result of their observations. He
quilted whether amateur work Of
lis kind. as it would be in every sense
the word, could be accepted as data
'r scientific conclusions, and most of
lie mothers who have learned what |
rof Preyer expects Of them in the
ay Of minute observation realize that
is only the woman Of rare intelli-
snce, skill, patience and ample leisure
no could hope to follow his instruc-
onA
The Agreeable Women. II
If, as Frederick Bremen says. 'the
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