The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1890-09-25
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

The sales of Dresden china at the
works in Meissen last year amounted to
S475, 600, the greatest sum ever realized
in single year.
To coat tin dishes to Withstand the
action of chemicals used in developing
and toning photos, use quick-drying
asphalt varnish, as that for bicycles.
The highest military authorities
have determined to build in the neigh
borhood of st. Petersburg large fac
tory for the use of smokeless powder.
One hundred boys and girls of Wood
land, Cal, whose ages range from twelve
to nineteen years, have formed Co
operative Fruit Canning and Drying
Union.
1t is reported that an effort is being
made at Atlanta, Ga, to organize COM
pany with $500, 900 capital to establish
newly-invented system of electric mo-
tive power.
1t has lately been shown that if two
coins are placed on opposites sides of
plate of glass and electrified for two
minutes they will leave perfect image
of themselves upon the glass.
Herr Meyer, in a recent address in
Heidelberg, announces than we may
reasonably expect that chemistry will
teach us to make the fibre of wood
source of human food. Wood fibre con-
sists essentially of cellul ose, from which
it is hoped to make starch.
"A thermometer valued at ten thou
sand dollars-the finest in Americas
among the instrumental resources Of
Johns Hopkins university. The gradua-
tions on the scale are so fine that a
microscope is necessary for reading them.
The latest report states that twenty
one observatories are now engaged in
the international undertaking of photo
graphing the entire heavens Each OBJ
servatory will have to take about 700
photographs in the zone assigned to it,
and it is hoped to finish the work in
three or four years.
There is talk in France of utilizing
watercourses as a railway motive power.
1t is proposed that the track shall be
laid on an embankment in the middle Of
the current, and that the locomotives
shall have two paddle-wheels dipping
into the water and revolved by it.
in his electrical treatment of wart,
DR.. Patrick, of Oppeln, first moistens it
with a warm solution of salt, then
thrusts both needles through it just
above the skin, and gradually turns on
the current until pain is felt. Five
cells are sufficient battery. In most
cases two sittings of five minutes each
destroy the wart, which gradually dries
up and falls away.
M. de Malarce recently informed the
French Academy of Sciences that the
use of the metric system had in 1887 be-
come compulsory in countries having an
aggregate population of 302, 900, ,000
being an increase of SO, 600, 900 persons
obliged to use it in ten years; use was
optional in countries having nearly o.,
900, 900 inhabitants; and it was legally
admitted and partially applied in coun'
tries having an aggregate population Of
395, ,00O, 900.
An important advance in surgery
the successful substitution of catgut,
ivory and bone for defects in bone
muscles and nerve sinews-was illus
trated by Prof. Gluck at the surgical
congress at Berlin. The inserted ma
terial sucks up the juices of the body
establishing the junction of the sepa
rated ends without any shortening o.
the part. Prof. Gluck presented cases
in which mobility had been restored tt
defective fingers hitherto impossible
feat-by insertions of from two to foul
inches Of catgut; case in which the re
moval of tumor from the thigh hat
left defective bone, which was RENE
died by the insertion Of ivory, shorten
ing being prevented; and case in whicl
large piece of nerve in the groin hat
been replaced with catgut, with nj
serious impairment of functions. AR
kansas Traveller.