The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1890-05-15
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

London Industries, i'll its annual re-
view for 1889, says: 'It is to Americans
that we owe almost all the most recent
developments in the steam engine.
Novel boilers, valve gears and Trainings
are all of American origin"
Northern manufacturers are inter-
ested in the statement that the finest
brick made in the South are from the
refuse of slate quarries. They have a
double resisting power and absorb only
one-third as much water as ordinary
brick.
"A use has been found for sour
canned corn. Hitherto it has been con-
sidered worthless. But demand for it
has sprung up in the great German
American centers of Cincinnati and New
York, where it is used to mix with saur-
kraut, the quality of which, it ID said, is
improved by it.
in the new process Ior spinning and
weaving glass into cloth the warp is
composed of silk forming the body and
groundwork on which the pattern in
glass appears. Not less than fifty to
sixty of the original glass strands are
required to form one thread OF tine weft,
and not more than yard of the cloth
can be produced in twelve hours
The resident surgeon of Sit Barna-
bas Hospital, Minneapolis, Minn., re-
ports an operation of a very painful kind
performed on boy of seventeen years
without the use of other an@sthe tic than
the power of hypnotism. The patient
was led to and from the operating table,
and even assisted the operator by as
suming any position ordered, yat suf-
fered no pain, lay perfectly quiet two
hours and then called for food, as the
operator had suggested he should do at
a certain time.
"A famous Viennese occultst says,
for the benefit of the people who have
to earn livelihood with the pen:
''Never write on white paper if you can
get yellow paper. A sheet or card Of
the same shade placed on the wall over
the desk will assist in giving the eyes
rest, and this will facilitate the work.
He has made the suggestion to many,
and in each case has received the
thanks of those who have been benefited
by it. 1t is simple and does not require
any philosophy to prove it.
Terra alba, or white earth, useo
exclusively for adulterating caudies,
vet no less than 5000 tons of this sub
stance were recently imported through
New York. Lozenges made entirely of
this earth are dipped in sirups favored
with peppermint and other essences and
then sold as genuine sugar loze 1ges.
When it is known that terra alba is a
mineral insoluble by the gastric juices,
tho extent of tho evil of this adultera-
ton may be understood. 1t means grave
danger of incurahle disease to thousands
of Young children. - San francisco
Chronicle.
Surgeons are DOW endorsing meth
cd of treatment in cases where foreign
bodies have been accidentally swallowed
which originated not in the medical
profession, but through the smartness
of deft members of another profession
the London pickpockets. When sur
reptitiously acquiring small articles o
iewelry, these are often quickly swal
J lowed, and in order that they may pass
through without harm to the individual
or the iewelry, the gent lives on an ex
elusive and abundant potato diet, unit
the coveted article is again recovered
: Prof Bi1roth, of Vienna, says that thi
t plan has proved so successful that opera
tions of opening into the stomach TO
nails, teeth, ETC., are no longer necessary
An electrical shoal water indicate
has been devised by two Mexican inven
tors. 1t consists of strong cylinde
= filled with shot, so that when hung b
: a cable from ship it will remain pei
fectly upright in the water. Embedde
in it's center is glass or vulcanite tub
: half full of mercury, the two ends bein
: closed by metallic plates, which are i
= communication, by insulated wires cal
: ried by the cable, with an electric bat
8 tery and bell on the deck of the shiI
: The action of the apparatus is as follow!
;; When the vessel approaches shallo'
: ater the cylinder drags on the groun
: below, and is consequently no longe
upright, but is thrown on its side. Tn
= causes the mercury in the tube to touc
= both the metallic plates attached to thu
u tube, as above explained; the eleetric'
q circuit thus becomes complete, and I'll
: warning bell on the ship instantly ring