The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1890-11-13
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

SCtENCE AMI iNDOS hTs
More shoes are manufactured at
Haverhill. Mass, than in any other
city of the United States.
Apples ten and twelve inches in cir
cumference are raised in southern Flor
ida. They are said to be of fine flavor
and juicy.
As the result of weighing two hum
dred and three newly born children, to
determine the weight of brain, the male
infants brain weighed 11.9 ounces and
the female 11.6 ounces, the weight OF
the brain being to the body as one to
weight or thereabout
A feature of the international cleo
trical exhibition in Frankfort, Germany,
will be the transmission of electric
power. A firm in Lauffen, on the Nee
kar will furnish currents of 500-horse
/ power over copper wires from station
140 miles from the exhibition.
The effects of steam in the destruc-
tion of bacteria do not depend, accord
| ing to the researches of Won Esmarch,
| so much upon the temperature as upon
the degree of saturation of the steam.
If there is air with it, the power of de-
stroying organic germs is very much
diminished.
The Rrophor is new invention
from Germany of great Importance in
textile factories, and is being intro
duced into the factories of England as
we'll as Germany. 1t is an apparatus to
diffuse moisture necessary for spinning
without injury to health or machinery.
The enormous development of our
iron industry is shown by the statistics
of the Iron Age, in which the produc-
tion of iron for the first six months Of
1890 is placed at 1910, 900 tons, which is
the largest amount of iron ever ma6e in
any country in the world in that time
Boston Journal.
"A process for marbleizing silk plush
without pressing or enclosing it has
been discovered. By this process the
light and dark effects are reversed when
looked at from opposite points. The
finish is nicely preserved and does not
give the appearance of having been wei
as shown in many goods of this charac
ter.
Glass blowing is an art nearly 4,0Ot
years old, and perhaps much older. Yet
there never has been any means discov
cred of dispensing with the human
. lungs as the instruments of the blowing
An English company is experimenting
with mold and mechanical bellows
, which does satisfactory work at bottle
blowing and other coarse work.
The production of steel rails in thi'
! country during the first six months o
this year isgiven by reliable authorit!
as approximating very closely to 800,
, 900 tons. This is said by the same au
thority to be 225, 900 tons or more in ex
/ cess of the production for the SAM
I period last year This indicates yer,
healthy condition of the streel-rail trad
= for the year SO far, and the indication
: are that this activity will be continued
;. American Manufacturer.
Ten years ago there were. only IA
cotton mills in the South, of 542, 900 spin
I dies, consuming 181, 600 bales of cotton
}, In 1899 there were 346 cotton mills, i
highly prosperous condition, usin
1000, 600 spindles and consuming 500, 90
bales of cotton a year. In this industr
the South is just beginning to move; te
\, years ago they manufactured one-fol
tieth of the cotton crop of the Soutl
e and now they manufacture one-twelftt
u In the manufacture of paper thi
II country has been making tremendou
r strides during the last few years. Th
W industry has been brought to such
a high state of Development, and the pr
a duction reduced so much in cost by in
'e proved machinery and the successfl
IS use of wood pulp under special process
y that large export trade has been e
III tablished, particularly with Englant
g. A market has also been found in Austr
IL liza and elsewhere.
s, by submitting different seeds to Il
20 action of the electric current their d
s. velopement is rendered more rapi
m Experiments made in Russia show tn
u when the electrical treatment is apple
I to vegetables there is larger crop al
ID the vegetable grows to larger siz
u, Barley ripened ten days quicker; pot
# toes were better and not SO prone
Id disease, and vines that have bet
e. treated have been cured of the diseas
which have attacked them. 1t is al
ne suggested as a remedy for the evil
BY the potato bug.
Street Car Propulsion.