The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1888-11-15
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

Analysis OF natural gas shows TIE
proportion of each constituent in 100
parts of the gas to be as follows: Car
bolic acid and carbonic oxide, Clio
each; oxygen, $40; olefant gas, L;
ethylic hydride. 5; marsh gas, 67; hy-
drogen, %; nitrogen. 8.
The handmade time pieces of the
Swiss and French, who have so long
held the supremacy as clockmakers, are
not now regarded as superior to those
ofAmerican machine make. The Amer
ican machine-made watch is as finished
and accurate as it's foreign competitor,
and is, of course, vastly cheaper.
An English fireman writes to the
London Fireman his belief that fires
may be put out by mixture of plaster
of-paris and alum. His plan is to
throw the mixture confined in COM
bustible bag upon the fire. An incom-
bustible pulley-block, to haul up the
bag, must necessarily be affixed to
every building to render his plan prac-
ticable.
DIR. Jastrow. Of the University of
Wisconsin, has collated considerable
evidence which goes to show that the
ear is the dominant organ of the mind
in some people and the eye in others.
Those in whom the ear is the dominant
organ are designated as ear-minded;
those in whom the eye is the domi-
nant organ are called eye-minded. A
| dog is usually smell-minded, or nose
| minded.
"A new method of weather predic-
tion has been discovered by Oh. Mon
tigny, a French physicist. He has OBJ
served that the scintillations of stars
increase before many storms, indicating
disturbance of the upper atmosphere,
| hours before the meteorological instru-
ments show any change. The fiercer
the storm, the more is the strength OF
the scintiilations increased.
"A belief has hitherto generally pre-
vailed that printing was invented by
Gutenberg, about the middle of the
fifteenth century. 1t is said, however,
that Professor Karabaceti has recently
| demonstrated, at conference at the
museum of Vienna, that movable types
of wood, both for letter press and orna
ments. were in use in Egypt 500 years
before the printer of Mayence.
Prof. Orruond Stone states that only
four cases have been found in which
the known motions of the principa
bodies of the solar system can not bt
fully explained by Newton's law o
gravity. The unexplained discord
ances are the motion of the perihelior
of Mercury, and the accelerations o
the mean motions OF the moon and o
Encke's and Winnecke's comets.
j The tops of pine and spruce tree
are now utilized in the manufacture o
paper. The discovery is of immens,
value, as it makes marketable vas
mass of what has hitherto been vast,
material. Hereafter the branches o
all evergreens will be gathered, AM
after process of steaming to extrac
the resinous matter will be grount
into dry pulp, which may be shipped
to any distance.
French physicians have adopted
new system of curing consumption
based on sulphuric acid in medicate'
inhalations. Sulphur slightly moist
ened with alcohol Is burned in
brazier, a little benzoin or powders
, opium being sometimes added to max
the fumes less disagreeable. The pa
tient is required to stand twice a da
| in this sulphurous chamber and inhal
the medicated atmosphere until hi
! lungs are saturated with sulphur
acid. The treatment is said to b
,, markedly successful.