The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1889-11-28
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.


A new marble saw cuts two and a
half inches minute.
In Norway they build all winter,
using unslaked lime, and the work is
superior to summer construction.
"A New England inventor, says the
Ironmonger. has perfected machine
that is warranted to make $4,000 nails
a minute, or three tons per day.
1t is a fact that sculptors and
painters find the old daguerreotype
better to work from than the photo
graph, for the discarded daguerreotype
registered far better the true modelling
of the face.
Brick tiling on fat roofs can not
be made tight with cement. The tiles
will absorb water; the cement will also
open little by the sudden shrinkage
from the heat Of the sun to the tenn
perature of falling rain.
All the horse skins used come from
Russia. The leather is a clear and
beautiful white and makes the finest
mems gloves. The Russians have a
peculiar breed of horses and very fine
leather is made from their hides.
The first so-called lead pencils
were made in the United States in
1880. 1t is estimated that the con-
sumption in this country is 250,000 a
. day; that, at an average cost of five
cents each. amounts to $3, 900, 900 paid
for pencils a year.
AT the Greenwich observatory
1.068 hours of sunshine were recorded
in 1888, about 250 less than the aver
age Of the preceding eleven years, and
333 below that of 1887. The aggregate
number of hours the sun was above
the horizon was 4, 465.
French scientists support the
theory that vegetable forms which now
cover our continents have spread
slowly and continuously from north to
south, recent species forcing back or
obliterating those of more ancient
origin.
According to a French astrono-
mer, the cooling of the terrestrial
crust apparently goes on more rapidly
under the sea than with land sur
face. From this he argues that the
crust must thicken under oceans at a
much more rapid rate, so as TO give
rise to a swelling up and distortion of
the thinner portions of the crust that
is forming mountain chains.
The new sugar produced from
coal, called saccharine, has been con-
demned by Paris doctors, because it
seriously impairs digestion. They
recommend that its use as an article of
diet be forbidden by law, and an or
dinance to that effect is said to have
been enacted. The good old cane SUI
gar seems likely to retain its place for
while yet, in spite of new inventions
and artifcially high prices.
During inactivity person will or
dinarily breathe about 480 cubic inches
of air minute, but while walking at
the rate of six miles an honr he will
breathe 5000 cubic inches. Singing is
an exercise which increases the action
of the lungs, perhaps even more than
walking, and vocal music is a gymnas-
tic exercise which increases the expan-
sion of the lungs and the development
of the lung tissue. Those nations which
are given to the culture of vocal music
are strong, vigorous races with expan-
siVe chests.
"A French electrician has submit
ted proposal to the municipality Of
Paris with a view to supplying the
electric light in a novel manner, which
would tend to conciliate interests
which at present enter ir.0 the ques
tion-namely, by obviating the neces
sity for laying down conducting wires
The originator of the idea has, it ap
pears, invented miniature gas motor
which he proposes to fix in the lamI
standard, aud above or below, the samt
as dynamo would be placed, to actu
ate an arc lamp on the top of the col
umn.
A Noted Female Pirate Dead.