The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1890-06-05
scIENcE AND lNpusrRY.

"A ffenCn physician has been sue
cessful with much larger percentage
Of vaccination on the leg than on the
arm.
The aim, as far as smokeless DOW.
ders are concerned. where high ex.
| plosives are used, is by chemical and
mechanical means to render detonation
impossible, and to convert a violent ex-
plosive into trustworthy and control
liable propellant.
Professor Mansfield, speaking of
electric cars, says that in case of a
thunderstorm you are safer in an cleo
trio car than in a horse car, as the ma
chinery is so constructed that the cleo
| tricity can be run to the earth in the
twinkling of an eye.
Warts have their bacillus. 1t has
just been found in the prickle layer by
DIR. Kuhnemann, and it is in the form
Of exceedingly delicate, slender rods,
most plentiful when the wart is recent,
and seldom entering the surrounding
skin.
1t is said that the coming car for
electrical surface roads will have motors
dltferentially connected. 1t will not
only excel in ease of riding and COM
fort, but will double the present life of
wheels, with great economy in track,
truck and motor repairs, as well as in
power, lubricants, ETC.; this, and more,
at schedule speeds of ten to twenty
miles per hour, and without sacrifice of
safety.
hydrogen gas has been liquefied,
but it requires a pressure of 10000
pounds to the square inch, and a tenn
perature of twenty-five degrees below
zero. 1t forms blue liquid, which by
the cold produced by its own evapora-
tion, may be frozen for an instant to a
solid with metallic lustre, thus con-
drming the theory that hydrogen is
gaseous metal, just as mercury is
liquid one.
An interesting astronomical dis
covery is announced from Italy. After
ten years of investigation, Schiaparelli
has found that Mercury, the planet
nearest to the sun, has rotation like
that of the moon. The planet turns
once on its axis during the period of its
revolution round the sun, so that the
same side is always turned toward the
sun.
The total quantity of Bessemer
steel rails made in the United States in
1889 by works producing their own in
gots was 1,468,066 gross tons, gain of
102, 145 gross tons over the production in
1888. The production of Bessemer steel
ingots was about 400, 900 gross tons larger
than in 1888, thus indicating how rap
idly the demand continues to increase
for steel for miscellaneous products
which were formerly made of IRON
Railway Age.
m. Jean Luvini supposes that the
electrical manifestations of the atmos-
phere are produced by the friction OF
PARTICLES of water and ice, and such
other substances as may be lifted to the
upper regions and dispersed through
several miles of thickness. The differ
ences in the character of the manifesta-
tions are dependent upon differences in
intensity. Auroral lights are due to
discharges in rarefied air.
"A correspondent of the Pharmaceut-
ische Zeitung, speaking from his own
experience, says that tannin can not be
too highly recommended as an appliea-
ton to burns, especially when very ex-
tensive, the skin being entirely lyremoved.
A five per cent. solution is squeezed
from sponge over the denuded sur
face, which is then dressed with some
soft ointment, either with or without
tannin. Pain Immediately abates, and
the healing process is wonderfully rapid.
The tannin solution must, of course, be
freshly applied as often as the dressings
are renewed. Drug. Circular.