The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1889-05-23
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.


The Greek letters, inverted from
eft to right, are almost identical with
the Phenician of Hebrew.
1t has been determined that crys-
utilization may occur during the period
when fused matter begins to solidify.
1t has been calculated that not
less than 10000, 1000 of meteors, each
large enough to be visible as ''shoot-
ing star" enter our atmosphere daily.
There are 81, ,O00 women in Ameri-
ca interested in the cultivation Of
fruit, and they include some of the
most successful orchardists of Cali
fornia.
Shells found in the lower levels OF
the caves at Dordogne, France, indi-
cate that the Neanperthal man made
common use of the oyster, which is
thus proven to be the Oldest domesti-
Gated delicacy known to man.
1t is claimed that persons addicted
to the use of alcoholic liquors can be
entirely cured by the new French
method of hypnotism. The patient is
hypnotized and then told by the doctor
that he must never want to drink
again, but must feel disgust for liquor.
This method of treatment is said to be
successful in every instance.
The question of the origin of the
dog has recently been discussed by
Prof. Nehring, who believes that it has
descended from various still-surviving
species of wolves and jackals. The lat
ter animals can be tanned; and many
attempts to domesticate wolves have
been successfully made in recent times
Herr Ronge has so completely tanned q
young wolf that it follows him exactly
Hs a dog mightdo.
OF 2,319 shoe manufactures in the
United States 1,013 are in Massachu-
setts, 1876 of them in Lynn, 40 in Hay-
erhill, Is in Brockton and Campello
In New York there are 358, of whom
140 are in New York City; in Pennsyl
vania 175, of whom 106 are in Philadel
phia; in Missouri, A, 20 Of them in St
Louis; in Ohio 68, 80 of them in Cincin
natl; in Maine 83; in Illinois 20, o
which 48 are in Chicago.
1t is said by scientists that fishes
and mollusks living at a depth OF more
than three miles under water have Il
bear a pressure of several tons, on &C
count of the great pressure of th'
superintendent brine. The reasol
they are able to bear this tremendou
pressure is because they have exceed
ingly loose tissues, which allow tn
water to flow through every interstic
and thus to equalize the weight. Whe
the pressure is removed they perish.
The great reputation of Frenc
shoes for fexibility and softness arise
from two causes-the good tanning {
their hides, largely due to peculia
qualities in the water of the tannin
districts, and the fact that most of th
shoes were sewed by women, who's
! weaker hands were not able to tighte
! the threads as men do, thus allOwin
the shoe to yield more easily to th
foot, but thus injuring its wearin
qualities.
-Salicylic acid is used in certai
parts of France to preserve eggs, it b
ing claimed not to penetrate the shell
but simply to act as an antiseptic c
the egg surroundings. 1t has bee
proven, however, that it does penetra
the shell and soon permeates the alb
men and yelk of the egg. In the viii
: !, it may be detected by heating Il
. albumep with little water, the liqu
, afterwards being acidulated al
= shaken with ether, when the acid m;
y easily be identified by the usual test
= The yoke should first be coagulated
: heat, when tho same process may
: employed.