The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1890-10-23
scIENcE AND lNpusTRY.
Germany manufactures over e., ,Ooc

-Germany manufactures over a2, 00O,.
900 worth of children's toys every year.
About 800 species of wild bees are
known, of wasps. 1,1OO, of which ITO and
16 respectively live in Britain.
The water barometer in st. Jacques
Tower, Paris, has a glass tube over Al
feet long, and about q inch in diameter
the largest yet made.
The largest fruit farm in West Vir-
| ginia is the Becker farm, near Harper's
Ferry. 1t contains 5000 apricot trees,
$4,000 peach trees, 5000 plum trees.
! 5000 miscellaneous fruit trees and 35,-
900 grape vines.
Dallas, Oregon, claims to handle
more wool direct from the producer than
any other city in the United States.
| Large wagonloads come to town every
day, and 5, 900, 900 pounds will be handled
this season.
American inventive activity is on
the increas as is shown by the fact
that during the past year 8, 785 more pat
! ents were taken out than in the pre-
ceding year. The number stood %. 800
! for 1889.
On November 1, 1887, the aggregate
| annual capacity of the completed iron
furnaces in the entire country was TO-
990,993 net tons, and by November 1,
1889, these figures had grown to 13, 1885,
233 net tons, an increase of 2,177, 80
tons in two years.
Quill toothpicks come from France.
The largest factory in the world is near
Paris, where there is an annual product
of 20,0oO,OOO quilts The factory was
started to make quill pens, but when
these went out of general use, it was
converted into toothpick mill.
The influence of the electric arc on
vegetation is said to have been striking
ly shown in Berlin in the spring of this
year. On some large lime trees, the
branches under the electric light dis
played new leaves of considerable size
while the buds on the opposite branches
where the light does not strike were
only just beginning to develop. -Arkan-
saw Traveller
Cooperation has not been successful
in Berlin. Thirty-five cooperative so
cieties have been organized there for
!
Thirty of them wound up their affairs
after an average existence of six years
each. Five still exist. The various
reasons for discontinuing business were
lack of funds, differences of opinion
among members, and dwindling away
of membership.
Mr.. Adametz has just made some
microscopic researches upon the micro
scopic organisms that inhabit cheese.
From an examination of Emmenthal, a
soft variety of Gruyere cheese, he has
obtained the following results: In each
gramme of the cheese, when fresh, from
900 to 14O,0 microbes are found.
This number increases with time. Thus,
acheese II days old contains 500, 900 bac.
terra per gramme. The population OF
a soft cheese 25 days old and much
denser than the preceding is 200, ,OOO
and that of cheese As days old il
1000, 900 microbes per gramme. = La
Nature.
1t is well known that moths and
butterflies give off odors either from the
wings or the hinder end of the body.
Certain moths, as the parent of the
common red and black "bear" cater
pillar, and of the salt marsh cater
pillar, have retractile organ which,
when thrust out throws out strong
odor, somewhat like laudanum. The
other evening we caught white female
miller (SpiEOsonaG 0jrginicG), which, after
rough handling, threw off very pecu-
liar strong odor, somewhat reminding us
of laudanum, and which remained on
the fingers for several hours. The moth
did not dart out the repugnatorial ap
pendages found in the other arctians.
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