The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1894-01-27
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

Washington has salmon fisherica
worth 81, 500. 900 year and catches To-
900 fur seals. 1t exports IS, 600. 600
worth of lumber and coal and raises
Is, 000 900 bushels of wheat.
1T is stated that ordinary bricks
boiled in tar for about twelve hours, or
until they are saturated with it, are
increased about 30 per cent. in weight,
are much harder than common ones
and unaffected by frost and acids as
well as perfectly waterproof They
form an excellent flooring for work
shops or storerooms, particularly IN
chemical establishments.
Some very industrious students of
microscopy, as applied to medical
| problems, have been Offering pretty
strong evidence that parasites are the
origin of malignant and cancerous
tumors; SO the Pathological society, of
London, appointed a committee to i'm
vcstigate the evidence, which commit
tee unanimously reports that, notwith-
standing the labor expended, the point
is not proved-the parasites are not
demonstrated.
According to the Medical Record,
DIR. A. e. Wright states it to be fact
that total color blindness is very rare;
also, that yellow-blue color blindness is
very rare. The common form is the
the grecn-red blindness Most color
blind men can readily distinguish yell
lows and blues, and the doctor pro-
poses that the red lights should have a
distinctly ycllowish tinge, and the green
lights distinctly blush tinge In this
way the difference between signals
could be readily made out by almost
all the color blind.
Ample food for reflection on the
possibilities of the English (?) lam
guage in the production of compound
words will be found in almost any
chemical journal We are told that an
eminent chemist when studying para
midotolueneorthothi acid
had changed this thiosulphonic acid
into the corresponding sulphinic acid.
On diazotizing the paraamidoorthoto
luenesulphinic acid, and decomposing
the diazo compound in absolute me-
thylic alcohol, he obtained a noncrys-
talizing acid, which he called oxyme-
thyloluenesulphonic acid" = Youths
Journal.
The treasury official statement of
the comparative receipts and expendi-
lures of the United States, issued No
vember /, shows that for the first four
months of the current fiscal year the
expenditures have exceeded the receipts
by s24, 600. 00O or at the rate of &72, O0O,-
600 year. The receipts are s27, 600, 900
less than for the corresponding four
months of the previous fiscal year, and
the expenditures are nearly 81. ZOO, 900
greater than for the same period.
There has been a net increase of $16,-
BO4, 764 in the circulation since tho LIST
of October, and the circulation per cap
ita is now $50. 40.
New York grows 5000, 600 tons of
hay and raises &c. 900. 600 bushels of POI
tatoes. The internal trade of New
York exceeds $4,000, O00, 900 year;
1850, 600, 600 of freight passes over the
railroads, $50. 600, 600 over the canals
and $3.50, 600. 600 over the Sound and
lakes. New York sustains over 1000 Z
newspapers and periodicals, has $780,
000, 900 in the savings banks, $500, 000,-
900 in insurance companies and $780,
600, 900 in capital and loans of the
banks. There are 5000 miles of rail-
roads. which cost over s60O, 200, 600.
There are 90, 900, 600 acres of farm lands,
valued at s1,o56. 00o, 600, and annually
producing SITS. O0O, 000
The production of cotton is rapidly
increasing in quantity in the transcas-
plan provinces of Russia. Last year as
many as ~, 565 tons of raw cotton were
transported across the Caspian to Baku,
and thence by the Transcaucasian rail-
way to Batoum and Poti. After re-
shipment at these places the cotton
was conveyed to Odessa and Sebas-
topol, and thence to the weaving mills
ut LODI, Warsaw and those ia the
Moscow district 1t being cheaper than
either American or Egyptian cotton,
which pays very heavy import duty,
It may be that in few years. when
the cotton crop of the transcaspian
provinces will suffice to furnish the
raw material required by the Russian
mills, American and Egyptian cotton
will cease to be bought in Russia.