The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1891-01-01
SCIENCE ANo INDUSTRY

bay City has the largest wooden
ware factory in the world
More than one-hfth of the land OF
the world has no outlet for drainage to
the sea, and in all that area evaporation
is greater thar precipitation.
The total imports uf bananas at
New York during the year 1889 aggrsa
gated 1886, 593 punches, to which Ja-
maica contributed about one-third, or
1886, ,OG2, while Colon sent 1852
The bones of some prehistoric giants
have been unearthed near Annistofis
Ala, One Of the thigh bones was sixty
two inches long, and the Skulls averaged
thirty-four inches in circumference.
-Thefe Is now more beet than cane
sugar consumed. In 1881 the total of
the worlds production of cane sugar
was 2,006, 900 tons, and of beet sugar
1,774,60o TONS In 1890 the total of cane
was 2,246, 600, and of beet 8, $50, 900 tons.
When Sir John Herschel was de-
Tending the character Of astronomical
science in view Of an error of nearly
100000 miles in estimating the suns
distance, the correction was shown to
apply to an error of observation so small
as to be equivalent to the apparent
breadth of human hair at distance of
125 feet
Prof. Ponfck, surgeon of Breslau,
Germany, has succeeded in removing in
rabbits portions of the liver amounting
to one-half, without killing them, and
has subsequently found that the dis.
sected organ grew again to more than
its original size, proving that the liver
has the astonishing power of repairing
lost tissue.
Prot William d. Parks, Supervis.
ing Engineer of the Edison Electric
Light Company OF Philadelphia, an
electrical expert, says he is willing to
stake his reputation as an electrical en-
gineer on his ability to construct an
electric motor that could take train of
cars from Philadelphia to New York in
thirty-six minutes.
-Nine-tenths of the raisins sold in
this country are made in California, and
yet California raisinmakers ship all their
best goods to New York and have them
boxed and marked as if they came from
Spain. They claim that the public
looks with more favor on imported
raisins, and for this reason they are OBJ
liged to go to all this trouble.
kerosene vapor is a palpable irritant
of the throat and air passages, and may
well have had something to do with the
alleged fact that in a recent epidemic of
diphtheria, in Hartford, Conn.,, the only
| fatal cases occurred in families who
used kerosene lamps, while the families
who used gas or candles for light in
sick-rooms escaped a fatal termination.
The Sanitary Era.
! The idea generally current that
death, following on disease, most fre-
quently occurs during the early hours
| of morning has been proved by a recent
investigation to be erroneous. DR..
Burns, of the Charity Hospital, New
York, has made observations in some
$4,000 cases, extending over twelve
years, with the result Of finding that NO
| particular hour or period of the day is
specially fatal.
Andrew Carnegie will have history
of the several industrial establishments
/ IN America WIN WDlCn ne mas De6u
connected prepared and handsomely
printed, to present to the foreign visit
ors who will come to Pittsburgh next
month to attend the international meet
ing of mechanics and metallurgical en-
gineers. The book will be handsomely
bound and profusely illustrated. The
history of the works and the various
processes of steelmaking will be care
fully explained.
The San Francisco Chronicle esti-
mates that the fruit shipments from
California to the East this year will
reach 10000 carloads, or 200, 600, OOC
pounds. 1t says: SAT an average price
of five cents pound-which may be
considered low. as the above embraces a
vast quantity of dried fruit, which sells
at from eight to twenty cents pound
our surplus for export will bring the
State at least 100000 This is a
pretty good showing for section in
which apples and pears sold freely al
$3.50 to So pound forty years ago, and
which at that time was deemed by most
persons unfit for any other purpose than
to dig gold and raise cattle for THEN
hides and tallow"