The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1891-07-30
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SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

"A BuSuer Oh In6 urSb magnitude
has been bored in the Batoum oil re-
gion. 1t flows 5000 tons of pure naptha
daily, and has depressed the price nearly
two-ffths
The new census shows that Phila-
delphia is the greatest manufacturing
city in this country, exceeding New
York. The value of Philadelphia's an
nual manufacture is 500, 900, 900, and
New Yorl1's $3.50, 900, 900.
"A Franco-Russian syndicate with
capital of 81, 900, 900 has been formed for
the purpose of manufacturing artificial
granite. The factory will set up at
South River, New Jersey. At this
place, it is said, a certain kind of clay
has been discovered admirably adapted
to the production of the pseudo-granite.
During the season of open naviga-
ton last year there were exported from
the port of St Petersburg 9O,00O,-
900 eggs OF this number 50,000,000
were shipped to Lubbock and SO,0O0,0OO
to London, the remainder going to Hull,
Leith, Hamburg, Dundee and Amster-
dam. These exports are valued at 2, ,0GO,-
600 rubles.
s
the f1fty-second parallel of north lati-
tude, between Valencia, Ireland, and
Orsk, Russia, the conclusion is reached
that the earth's surface on this parallel
is not that of an ellipsoid of revolution.
This confirms the conclusions reached
in this country when the forty-second
! parallel was measured, and shows that
the earth is not perfect spheroid.
| DR. Oliver Wendell Holmes believes
that body and mind are much influenced
by food He says: 81 am persuaded
that a too exclusively porcine diet gives
a bristly character to the beard and
hair. can never stray among the vil-
lage people of our windy capes without
now and then coming upon human
being who looks as if he had been split,
salted, and dried like the salt fish which
has built up his arid organism.
The ether will transmit speech as
well as horsepower. The photophone
of Prof. Bell shows that it is possible to
talk along beam of light between two
distant points which are not connected
by wire. Up to the present time it has
not been possible to speak in this man
ner for a greater distance than few
hundred feet, but the wonderful fact
has been demonstrated that ray of
light, and, therefore, the ether can
transmit speech.-Electrical Review.
Coal has lately been sent from
Philadelphia to Hamburg, Palermo and
Cuba, Colon, Porto Rico, Martinique
and st. Thomas by steamers, and
shipped in sailing vessels to San Fran
cisco, Laguayra and Mexican ports.
These shipments were not made in bal
last, but on orders for commercial use.
Coal is going from the Virginia coal
fields to Spain and Brazil. From this
time forth it is evident that the worlds
supply will be drawn less and less from
the deep mines of Great Britain and
more and more from our own mines
Philadelphia Record
Effects of Yariously colored lights
on insane persons have been observed
by the director of the Milan insane
asylum. A melancholy patient in
rosy light improved perceptibly in
twelve hours. In twenty-four hours he
called for food, although for many pre-
ceding days nourishment had been ad-
ministered to him against his will.
Thereupon the director had rooms fur
nished in solid co1ors and confined pa
tients in them Green and blue were
, found to be the most quieting, rose the
most cheering, red the most exciting.
All the patients in the asylum will be
! confined hereafter in apartments fur
nished in colors to suit the nature OF
their maladies.
; The reports of the production OF
8 naptha in Russia for the year 1890 have
Just been published. On the Apsheron
! peninsula (Bakoo) the yield was $780,
600, 600 poods,. of which 169, 027, 700 pools
were worked into various products
(kerosene, grease, etc., and the rest
: shipped raw. In northern Caucasia The
e yield of naptha was 1,656,O00 poods
D This shows remarkable increase II
s the production for the last eighteer
a years. In 1877 only 12,OOO,00O pood
e were produced on the Apsheron PENN
n sula; in 1885 the yield reached 10000,
e OOO and Last year it amounted to 2S9,
} 900, OOO The expectation of naptha wa
s enlarged correspondingly. In 1880 onl.
r, IA, 600, 900 pools were exported; in 1888
IS 81, 200, 600 poods were exported by SCI
e and 12,O00,O 900 by the trans-Caucasial
n railroads. Last year liz, OO0, 900 wer
d sent across sea and So, 364, $40 pools b.
r the railroads
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