The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-01-05
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

The coffee crop of 1894 is esti-
mated at 10, 500, 900 bags, the largest In
the annals of the trade and 1000, 900
bags in excess of the consumption A
drop in prices is expected.
The New Orleans Times-Democrat
saws the south produced ss6,6o7, 69S
worth of lumber in 1890. To make
this output 5,7s4 mills were operated
and II, $50 hands employed. The prod
uct in 1880 was worth s3s, 5000. 1t
more than doubled in ten years"
The manager of q rural shirt fac
tory will not keep in his employment
long girl who cannot earn more than
S. a week. "Our machinery is run by
steam" said he, ''and the girl who
with a few weeks experience cannot
earn more than SIS or s. week is an
actual loss to us. She is not working
up to the capacity of the machinery.
and we are actually losing money Dy
her presence in the factory"
The United States chronological
commission has shown that our forest
trees are hotels, where a multitude OF
insects board and lodge. The oak pro-
yides provision and home for 300 spe-
cies of insects and lodgings for $50
more. The elm makes full provision
for the wants of 81 species and harbors
80 others. The pine bears the burden
of supporting from its own vitality Isl
species, while 20 more love its shady re-
| treats.
The latest hygienic craze in Paris
| is the use of porous glass for windows-
This is declared to possess all the adj
vantages of the ordinary window franz
ing. and, while light is as freely adj
mitted as through the medium OF COM
mon glass, the porous further adj
mits air, too, the minute holes with
which this is intersected being too fine
to permit of any draught, while they
provide healthy continuance ventila-
| ton through the apartment.
Without dust there would be nc
blue armament; the heaven would be
blacker than. we see it on moonlesa
nights On this black background the
| glowing sun would shine out sharply,
and the same sharp contrast OF intense
light and deep shadow would charac-
terize the surface of the earth. There
| would be nothing to subdue this sharp
contrast but the moon and stars, which
would remain visible by day.
An average of five feet of water II
estimated to fall annually over the
whole of the earth's surface. Assuns
ing that condensation takes place at ar
average height of 5000 feet, the forc<
of evaporation necessary to supply
moisture for such prodigious rainfall
must be equal to the lifting of 322, 600,
600 pounds of water 5000 feet every
minute, day and night, during the en-
tire year. To supply this enormous
amount of moisture a stratum OF thu
entire ocean surface of the globe mo-
less than seven and one-half feet thicl
must be taken up by the clouds and re
turned to earth once each 365 days.
An English writer, referring to TIT
common assumption that the Anglo
Saxon is adapted in a peculiar degre'
to all zones and temperatures, point
out that in Barbados, the oldest ant
healthiest of British tropical posses
sions, may be seen people known a
"mean whites" whose progenitors hav
lost through poverty the luxuries ant
advantages which, with constant infu
sion of fresh blood, alone keep tn
whites alive there. A different devel
opment is observable in New Zealand
whose position in the southern hemis
phere corresponds to Italy in the north
ern. There, it is asserted, the peopl
are undergoing a rapid process of alter
alton. that is, are becoming "dis-En
glished in respect to mental character
istics-are, in fact, losing the melar
choly, restlessness and anxiety said t
be characteristic of Englishmen an
are becoming cheerful and light
hearted, like the southern races Q
Europe.
Fruit Salad.
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