The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1891-06-18
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

Wis, district for 1890 foots up OO,OOO,-
600 feet.
I'm the new discovery for photogra-
ply in natural colors, when the prints
are viewed by transmitted in place of
reflected light each color isreplaced by
it's complementary one.
Statistics of lumber production on
the Pacific Coast during 1890 show that
| Washington produced 1920, III, 900; Ore
gon, S29, 200, 900, and California, 1884,
916,O feet, making total output for
the three Pacific coast states So, ,52S, $780,.
900 feet.
The other day the town of Auburn,
| Ala, was entirely enveloped in dark
ness at nine o'clock a. m. Negroes and
ignorant whites ran out of their homes
screaming and frightened, thinking the
day of Judgment had come. The phe-
nomenon was purely local.
A gigantic pyramid, the most inter
esting relic on the American continent,
lies a few miles to the west of Pueblo
in old Mexico. Humboldt describes il
as work of such magnitude and vast
ness as, next to the pyramids of Egypt,
has never before been seen in tho
world It's height is 172 feet and the
sides of its base 1855 feet, being 275 feel
lower than the great pyramid of Cheopsi
and 627 feet longer.
AT Port Blakely, near Seattle,
Wash, is situated the largest lumber
mill in the world. The huge machinery
of this great mill occupies building
102 by AS feet, while there Is a fireroom
100 by 65 feet and shop 40 by so feet.
Geared up and in trim it could increase
its great regulation cut from 800, 900
dav to 500, ,O00or 600, 900. The only diff
fculty would be in getting the colossal
quantity of sawed lumber out of the
way.
The New York Commercial Bulle-
tin reports as to the extent of new
buildings in twenty-five cities of this
country, having an aggregate popula-
ton of 7,500,O 900, that the number
erected during the year 1890 was 81, 400,
and the estimated value 1926, 351, ,691.
The total population of the country was
about eight and one-half times that of
the cities named, the cost of the new
buildings during the year in all other
cities and towns of only half as great
per capita as the cost in the cities
named would aggregate about $3.50, ,000,-
, 900, making the total for the entire
country over 81, ,076, ,OOO 600.
The respiration of insects has been
) the subject of study by M. Contejean,
{ who has found that, contrary to what
/ takes place in vertebrates, the move
J ment of inspiration is passive and that
of expiration active. The air is driven
: from the body by contractile effort.
Hence, when the insect is wounded the
! flow of blood occurs at each expiration.
e The respiratory movement not inter-
e rupted by cutting off the head, nor by
} the absorption of curare, which pro-
: duces an immediate cessation in man.
S The Prussian authorities have re-
. Gently published table showing the
3 progress which has been made in rail.
q road service in that country in the last
e ten years-the decade which has elapsed
. since the acquisition of most of the
t railroads by the government. The com
e parison is raade between the whole gov
L ernment system in 1890 and the CORE
e spending systems of roads in 1880
e whether owned at that time by the gov
d eminent or by private corporations. II
v this time the mileage has increased 2:
l per cent, the number of stations 40 pei
n cent The number of locomotives ha'
-e increased 27 per cent, of passenger cars
o 35 per cent, and of freightlcars, 80 pc
t. cent.-Railroad Gazette.
n The poisons used by the natives Q
n Africa to render fatal the wounds mad
20 with their arrows. as described by Mr.
"a Stanley in his recent work on Africa
IS are, when fresh, of most extraordinar.
Is power. Faintness, palpitation of tn
in heart, nausea, pallor, and beads of pers
ID piration break out over the body wit
10 extraordinary promptness, and dealt
e. ensues. One man is said to have die
Of within one minute from mere pin-hol
vs. puncture in the right arm and righ
v breast: another man died within a
at hour and quarter after being shot;
al woman died during the time that sh
was carried distance of a hundre
dis PAGES; others died in varying spaces {
IF. time up to hundred hours.
er The ether day Professor Charles 4
Sc Young, the eminent Princeton astront
of mer, was chatting about astronomy
lie the court of the Palace hotel, San Fra1
MT cisco, when some one asked him: "Wha
is to you, professor, the most wonderfI
and startling fact in astronomy?
''Wen," said the professor, Il shoul
he say the fact that your great Lick tell
a scope reveals about 100000, 900 of star
DIV and that every one Of them is SUI
ed theoretically and by analogy givin
a light and heat to his planets. Yc
ter know the Lick telescope reveals sta
,ut so small that it would require 10000
ex- them to be visible to the naked eye
On A Startled Organist.
nm A curious incident disturbed co
nts c,rao,a+ion at ST Miehael's church. Folk