The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1894-10-20
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

"A frozen soap bubble prons
t,vo and floating like an irridescens
transnarent egg she'll on the surface OF
q vessel of liquid air was one OF the
,,,os, marvellous sights shown by froi.
Dervar RECENTLY in lecture at the hoya.
Institution. London, on the enects VI
intense cold. =.
of total of 13.00O,O00 acres in
c.,t,, Carolina. 5000, 900 are improved
while the remaining s,OOo,ooo are u IN
improved. In Georgia out OF @''ooo'o9V
acres. only 9,50o.0o0 are improves.
Either of these states probably contains
a greater percentage OF unimproveu
land than any other in the Union.
The dragon fly, with 10000 lenses
IN his eve, darts from angle TO angie
With the rapidity of flashing sword
.nd ne RAPIDLY darts back, not turning
in the air. but with clash reversing
+he act;on of his four wings and instan.
t.neouslv calculating the distance o.
Tho objects. or he would dash himseii
to pieces But in what contorma'l W
of the eve does this power consist! NJ
one can answer. f.. 1000
The total catch of whales for ls9.
os Az. of which number the bones OF
sayartv-three will not come TO oah
Francisco until the fall of 1894. The 9TH
orc PRODUCED 363, 900 pounds, and there
Is on hand Al 900 pounds Taking on the
amount sold the visible supply Is reck-
oned at 1854, 900 pounds, as against 4oS'
300 pounds at the same time last year :
, 81 which date the bone was selling al
/ 81 to s. per pound.
: Agricultural statisticians estima.e
{ that since 1910 the worlds produc'ion
/ of meat has increased 81 per cent.
while that of grain has increased AZ
q nor cent. In 1855 the worlds total pro
, duct;on of wheat was only So0,O Oo,oU
7 bushels. whereas now it is 2, ,0o0,VV
: bushels. Beerbohen, the noted Engilsl
Il authority on the grain trade and cerea
crons of the world, estimates the yiei
a. nj wheat at about 104, 0O0,OO less ina
), the crop harvested last year.
n ADVANTAGE is taken of every e.
t. Incident to utilize the heat OF coal ~
ly der boilers. The most Important sue
err in this line is to secure the enos
IN angle iron bars to the interior OF u
} ho;lers' heating surface and pro]ectln
Il them through the water, and also pr
1g iect;no similar bars through the II
h chamber. whereby the heat is taken
hy the bars and conveyed directly
on a. water within. A test made on
cd boiler thus constructed showed
RS added efficiency of % per cent. IN u
re- heating capacity, which is certainly
,e. remarkable advance.
10 The adulterants OF beer or tne
ou If wine call all the discoveries OF
INT ence to their aid and make compour
lis rb;ch for SAVIOR, color and bouquet
ne, ca;ve all ordinary consumers. MAI
; or grains, hops, yeast and water the n
NAL materials for producing beer
ing all displaced. Glucose and giycer
on take the place of malt. For hops
de- used beef oil, aloes, quassia, aoslht
OPP pentian, Cologne, salacine, island ms
SELF Grange and lemon peel and varl
7 in o+her s,bstances. Alum is used to cl
IN It. The color is improved by caran
the chicory and various manufactured u
lures
Everybody knows that the ca
i,eo makes one complete revolution OF
n,on avis once every twenty-four hours.
-. few. however, have any idea OF
,ary b;ob rate of speed necessary to acc
nov rs nlish that feat The highest velo
ever attained by cannon Dali
-. 49, been estimated at 1,696 feet per sec
. - = which is equal to a mile in S.s seco
~ - The earth, in making one revoiutie
, a ,or, twenty-four hours, must turn WI
.tUI velocity nearly equal to that OF a
p.y non ball. In short, the rate OF spec
" was the equator has been estimated
ef' nearly 1900 feet per second or
go. every thirty-six seconds, or sever
!, I'm. miles minutes.