The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1888-01-12
SCIENCE AND INDUSTY.


started at Lynchburg, Va.
"A prize of $500 has been offered
for the production of the best practical
elementary textbook of tropical agri-
culture specially applicable to Jamaica.
manuscripts to be submitted to the gov
ernment of Jamaica on or before Au-
gust l, 1888. S.-ArkansaW Traveler.
OF late years much careful atten-
ton has been devoted by physicians to
the relations between the temperature
and the death-rate due to different dis
eases. One of the facts most clearly
established in this field Of investigation
is the hostility of a high temperature
to the diffusion of smallpox. Heat has
a most marked effect in checking the
prevalence of this dreaded malady.-
N. Y. Ledger
Though discovered in 1879 saccha-
rine is just beginning to be manufact-
ured on a large scale, near Magde-
burg, Prussia. Having 800 times the
sweetening power of cane sugar. this
remarkable product is adapted to many
uses. 1t is expected to be especially
valuable in medicine on account Of
its absolute harmlessness. .-ArkdnSaW
Traveller.
The production of locomotives in
Europe during the year 1886 amounted
in England to 2.200; Germany, 5000;
France. 1000; Belgium, 500; Austria,
400; Switzerland, 120; Italy, 20; Sweden,
so; Russia, 40, and Holland, 20; in all,
6.400 engines: The largest works in
the world are the Baldwin Locomotive
Works, in Philadelphia, which are CT
pable of turning out 600 per year.
Borsig, in Berlin, can produce 800 in
that time.
The wheat-growing interests of the
Northwest, the mining interests of the
far West, and the cotton-growing in
terests of the South are counting on a
great increase in demand from home
sources on account of the spread OF
population in those regions. The low
price of wheat for years past has kept
the farming interests close to the wall,
but with the spread of industrial Ca
pacity toward the Rocky mountains
brighter prospects are looming up and
better prices are in sight. The same
influences are at work in the South.
Public Opinion.
"A recent meeting of the Academy
of Natural Sciences. the president, DR..
Leidy, stated that he had recently re.
| ceived for examination from the Geo
logical Survey in Washington collec
ton of fossil bones from ten miles cas-
of Archer, Levy County. Fla. The
specimens are generally much broken
although the original texture is mostly
preserved and they show no trace O
being rolled or water worn. They con
sist chiefly of the remains of rhinoceros
mastadon and llama. A new specie
of horse was also indicated by teeth ant
ankle bones, for which the name Hippo
therium plicatile was proposed. d.-Bosso,
Budget.
There will be five eclipses in 1889
three of the sun and two of the moon
A total eclipse of the sun will occu
January l. partly visible at Washing
ton as partial eclipse, the sun settin,
eclipsed. The second eclipse. being
partial eclipse of the moon, will occu
January Is. visible at Washington ant
generally in Europe. Africa, North ant
South America, and the Atlantic an
Pacific oceans. The third will be a.
annular eclipse of the sun, June 81, in
visible at Washington. The fourt
will be partial eclipse of the moon
July II, invisible at Washington. bu
visible generally in Europe, Asia, Al
RIGA, Australia, the Atlantic ocean, an
the easterly portion of South Americs
The fifth will be total eclipse of til
sun, December 2l and %, invisible g
Washington.
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