The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1891-04-30
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

"A tusk seven feet long and tooth
weighing over seven pounds, supposed
to have been part of a mastodon, have
been unearthed at Monson, Iowa.
-Seven-eights of all the spools used
In the world are produced in Maine
and New Hampshire, or are made from
lumber manufactured and shipped from
those States. No wood for spool is
as good as canoe birch.
The sting of the bee is so peculiarly
constructed that if you pull it out, in-
stead of relieving the pain, it adds
greatly to it, for instead of pulling out
the poison You push it into the flesh.
This is not generally known, hence the
severer pain from the sting. Scrape the
sting out Immediately with knife, and
you scrape the poison out also, and soon
forget that you have been stung.
Lace curtains are made in but one
place in this country. In Wilkesbarre,
Pa, few looms turn out these goods,
but large factory is soon to be started
in Philadelphia, and machinery for this
purpose is now being procured in Not
tingham, England. American worlmen
are in England and France, making
careful study of the processes by which
the rarest and most delicate curtains
are made, and it is expected that fabrics
as beautiful as the most costly imported
goods will soon be made in America.
1t is reported that leading Hebrews
in San Francisco are to raise fund of
$3.50, 900 for relief of their persecuted
brethren in Russia. The plan includes
the purchase of /, 900, 900 acres in Mex
leo, on the Pacific coast, which will cost
only 81 per acre. This tract will be
divided into small farms and on it will
be located large numbers of these
Colo SITS win be sent out through the
English Society of Israelites.
Professor Bruckner, of Berne,
Switzerland, has recently called atten-
ton to the existence of chronological
periods of about thirty-five years for the
whole globe (more marked in the in-
terror of continents). The years 17O0,
174O, 1850, 1915, 1850 and 1880 appear as
centers of cold, wet periods; while the
years 1920, 1850, 1795, 1880, 1860 are CEN
ters of warm, dry periods. During the
warm periods the passage of oceanic air
to the continent has been hindered, and
during the cold it has been favored, in-
creased rainfall occurring in the latter
case.
1t may comfort some nervous and
emotional women to know that French
physician has declared in favor of
''good cry" He encourages groaning
and crying during surgical operations,
and is of opinion that such patients as
yield to their emotions and let natures
grand outlets for allaying pain be nm
choked recover more quickly than those
who from feeling that it is weak to ut-
ter groans and cries restrain them. He
cites a case of a man who brought his
pulse down sixty beats by giving him
self up noisily to his strained and nerv
GUS condition for two hours. So cry,
good sisters, if you want to, and rest in
the belief that science sanctions tn.
Y. Times
Prof. Il. A. Hazen, in Science, dis
cusses the possibility Of dissipating the
energy of tornado by artificial means.
He is of the opinion that serious damage
may be warded or from town or
village by an extensive forest to the
west and southwest. The electric ten
sion might also possibly be relieved by
properly arranged network of wires
and poles placed in the direction Of usual
approach. ga tornado is exactly the
same as a waterspout at sea, he says,
land if ships have broken up such a
spout from the conclusion produced by
the firing of cannon, there seems no
reason why the energy of atornado may
not be largely diminished by the ex.,
plosion of gunpowder or dynamite. F"