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

SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.
-Georgia sends ont every year about
LOCO, 900 bales of cotton and cuts every
year 900, 600, 900 feet of lumber.
Iowa produces 1866, 600, 600 of farm
products every year. The corn crop
reaches Sa2, 600. 600 bushels; wheat, ST.
100000; oats, $4,000, 900; potatoes, 20.
900, 600
"A new process of making rain was
recently brought before the Academic
des Sciences, Paris, by NJ. Baucoin.
His theory is that electricity maintains
the water in clouds in state OF small
drops and that if electricity be dis
charged the water will come down.
Colorado has 5000. 900 acres under
artificial irrigation. The farm prod
ucts exceed s12, 00O,0 900 a year; there
are 1900, 900 cattle, 2.000.0 900 sheep; the
coal fields cover 40, 900 square miles;
the supplies of marble, granite and
other building stone are inexhaustible.
1T may be doubted. says an English
writer, whether our measurement of
animal courage has yet been sufi-
GENTLY extended, for there appear in
stances in which the acts of daring are
prompted by a sense of obedience, of
discipline, and even of duty-something
similar in kind to that which marks
and distinguishes the highest forms of
courage in man.
"A novel kind of cab has lately been
tried in Berlin. In appearance it is not
unlike large bath chair with two
seats, and is propelled by petroleum
naphtha motor. 1t has three wheels,
and carries only two persons. including
the driver. The motor is of nearly two
horse power, and produces, on good
roads, a speed of about eleven miles an
hour.
Sir Charles Lyall, basing his esti-
mate on notifications of certain spe-
cies of marine life. assigned $40, 600, OOo
years as the req uired length of geo
logic time. Darwin claimed 200, 900, DOC
years; Crowell, about "a. 900, 600; Geikie,
from 7s,0co,0oO upward; Alexander
Winchell, but 8, 600, 900; MCGEE, Upham
and other recent authorities claim from
100, DOC, 900 up to $50. OOo, 900 years.
1T is said by an Indian botanist that
some plants can see. This is as start
ling as the statement made some time
ago, and now conclusively demon
strated, that certain plants have the
sense of touch. Experiments have
shown that plants have tendency to
grow towards supports placed at a
little distance from them, and will
even grow away from the light in
order to reach objects about which
they may Irvine themselves.
-Polygonum sakhalim is the name
Of forest plant from the island of
Japan, of which lattering
accounts are given by M. Doumet
Adanson. who has cultivated q few
stools of it in France. He got it as an
plant, and it is really very
It grows to be about six
Eeet high in three weeks; produces q
foliage of which cattle
ire fond; and yields good second crop
after the first cutting. A section of
DOT planted will produce stool cover
ng square meter of surface. Il
axes care of itself.-Popular Science
Monthly.
Liquid chlorine is now being pre-
Jared on large scale in Europe for
Use in chemical work. The gas is
iquified by a special form of pump,
ind is kept or transported in iron or
teel cylinders, which themselves weigh
bout 100 Kilograms and hold fifty kilo-
rams of liquid chlorine. equivalent to
'bout 5000 liters of chlorine gas The
lensity of the liquid chlorine is about
.33; at Is degrees C. its pressure is six
kilograms; at IS degrees C. it is ten at
The cylinders are tested
or more than 100 atmospheric
The English coal strike extended
'ver twelve weeks; it kept $50, 900 men
nut of employment and reduced tens of
thousands of families to restitution;
he loss in miners wages alone is COM
'uted at So, 500. 600 and the loss in in
Iustries dependent upon coal mining
S put at s23, 500, 600; the miners funds
Exhausted by the fight amounted to
], 100000 and the public charity was
rawn upon to the extent of s., soc, 900.
these losses together amounted to
SO, 000, 900, and it is said that the loss