The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1894-03-24
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

-"One deplorable result of excessive
meat eating" says Mrs. Ernest Hart,
in the London Hospital, is the ILL
temper, which is said to be a chronic
complaint in England. In less meat
eating France urbanity is the rule; in
fish and relocating Japan harsh words
are unknown, and an exquisite polite
ness to one another prevails even
among the children who play together
in the streets"
Children should be trained to eat
slowly, no matter how hungry or what
important business is pressing. Much
safer little food well ground than q
hearty meal swallowed in haste. Cold
food is even more difficult to digest
than hot, if taken too rapidly. The
normal temperature of the stomach is
about ninety-eight degrees; food has to
be raised to this temperature before
digestion can take place.-People's
Health Journal
According to tho state board OF
health of Michigan the statistics of
sickness have demonstrated the law
that generally influenza ia grippe) is
quantitatively related to the atmos-
pheric ozone-the more ozone, the
more influenza; and the law that inter-
mittent fever is inversely related-the
more ozone, the less remittent fever.
The cultivation of both coffee and
the rubber tree (Castill@n elastica) Is
increasing rapidly on the isthmus of
Tehuantepec, Mexico. In ordinary cof-
fee plantations, trees otherwise useless
are planted to shade the coffee trees,
but the substitution of the rubber tree
provides shade that in seven years
pays all the expenses of the plantation
both coffee and rubber. One rubber
tree is planted for every four coffee
trees.
1t is reported from France that M.
Egasse, of Archevilliers, in the depart
ment of Eure ct Loire, produced an
average crop of eighteen tons of pota-
toes per acre on forty acres. The tons
were what Americans call long tons"
of Q, $40 pounds This result was at
tanned by heavy manuring, the land
having received, In addition to farm
yard manure, dressing of $50 pounds
of superphosphate, 224 pounds each Of
sulphate of potash and nitrate of soda
per acre.
I'm the process of extracting gold
from its ores molten lead is used in
stead of mercury. The lead is melted
on shallow hearth and the powdered
ore is fed in at one end and carried for
ward as film over the surface of the
lead by means of an agitator moving
over it. 1t is thus brought to the other
end, where it escapes through a hop
per. In order to prevent oxidation of
the lead, the chamber is kept filed
with carbonic oxide from gas pro-
Queer.
Between go, 900, 600, 900 and 100, o00,-
600, 900 codfishes are taken from the
sea around the shores of Newfound-
land every year. A single cod yields
something like $500, 00o, 900 eggs each
year. and over 5000, 900 eggs have been
found in the roe Of single cod. A
herring of six or seven ounces in
weight is provided with 10000, 900 ova.
After making all reasonable allow
ances for the destruction of eggs and
of the young, it has been calculated
that in three years single herring
will produce 154, 200, 600.
Scientists affirm. that red hair
means an abundance of iron in the
blood. And the analyst says that 1t is
the matter that enters the red hair
that imparts vigor, the elasticity, the
great vitality, the overlooking, thor
oughly healthy animal life which runs
through the veins of the ruddy-haired,
and this strong. sentient animal life
is what renders them more intense In
their emotions than their more languid
fellow-creatures. Philosophers notice
it is a peculiar fact that red-haired old
maids are very rare.
Experiments are in progress at
Yale to determine the relation of mus
cular action to the nerves. Tests will
be made on some of the most cele-
brated swordsmen of the country to
determine the exact time it takes the
mind to realize that certain action
has taken place and how long time is
required to make simple muscular
action. This is being done to establish
the theory that what is known as
muscular strength does not depend
upon the size of the muscle, but upon
the strength of the nerve center and
the quality of the muscle.
Bound to Kick.
The man with two cork legs was in a
bad humor because he couldn't go