Facts And Figures

- Extensivo works for the manufacture of mineral paints frotu nativa Southern ores hare recently been erecteil at Chattanooga, Tenn. Tho machipory is of modern make and has a ap.-ieity of from five to soven tons a day. - California has nopes ai ranking amono; the cotton States and talks of building faetones nt once to work up the erop. The Merced cotton íields have shown what square miles of similar soil could do, and Kern County, further south, is now Irrigating 100 acres of cotton to prove that sho has 100,000 aeres more only waitine to bo watered to make good cotton tields. - In the coui'sc of inquirios as to the phosphorescence of tlie sea, a (crinan naturalist has discovered that the phenomenon oceurs whenever !-ca fislies are brought into three percent, snit solution. The luminous aspect begins in the eves, spreads over the whole body, and increases each day. Tlie phosphorescent substance is a kind of mucus, which is white by day and shines in the dark. - 1). A. Jones, an enthnslastio boekeeper of Beeton, ünt., and a memoer of the Dominion Parliamcnt, has been gathering queen bees in Cyprus and the Holy Land. Ho found a new and superior raee of bees in Palestine and had less dilliculty to secure bees there as crops were a (allure last year and starvation makes soiue move willing t. sell their hives. Mr. Jones brought back 200 hives but estimated that eacii queen cost him $100. - A. M. Buchner, a Prench rliomlst, discovored that a single drop of ttlooholic extract of oampeachy wood, placed upon pure ilour or bread, will cause a brownish yellow stain. lf the Üour contatos alum in the proportion of one or two per cent. the color will turn to a gráVish blue or violet graj'. ith oneIialf por cent. of alum the tint is reddish yellow, with a border of gray blue, and small blue spots can be Uisjovered by examining it with a lens. Ono-fourtn por cent. of alum is the limit of reaction, when the blue border disappears, although the small spot.s are faintly di.scernible. - Edward Atkinso-i says that we do not begin as yet to appreoioite Üui magOitnde of the wealth to be reaped from cotton culture in this country. He sa3rs the present erop of eotton will be twenty-five per cent. larger than the Iarge3t rop ever raised by si ave - that is, it vill exceed 6,000,000 ba!es. If it be oí liat amount. it will produce 3,000,000 ons of cotton seoil, besidei seod for planting, which will yield 00,000,000 gallons of oil, 1,300,000 tons of oil cake nd 1,500,000 tons of hulls suitable for making paper. Piach ton of oil-seed meal will keep live slienp six months. fljqa the cotton seed erop will support nillionsof gbeep and return to the land he fcrtilizer needed to grow more coton. He further says that the present otton acreajre of the South covers less han two per cent. of the cotton-gioivng area in the United States.