The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1891-04-23
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

The State mine inspector of Indiana
reports that there are eseventy-seven coal
mines in the State, with capital of
81, ,0S1, 900 The output last year was
8,676, 900 tons.
The total area under ditch in Ell
Paso County, Col, (of which Colorado
Springs is the chief city, is 11,946 acres.
There are thirty-one reservoirs con-
structed, at an estimated total cost of
100000, and four partially completed
reservoirs, which when finished, will
have cost S31, 900. There are in all sixty
bitches.
"A Russian physician has found that
microbes were always present in great
numbers in the fasting stomach of a
healthy person. During the earlier
part of digestion they are always quite
numerous. The gastric juice, however,
tends to destroy the microbes, though
no effect on digestion appears to be
exerted by them.
There are in European Russia 223
sugar factories, producing sugar from
beets. This year 269,594 desyatins of
land were occupied with the cultivation
of sugar beets, and produced acrop of
300, ,389, ,O84 poods. The yield of sugar is
estimated for the current year (1S90-91)
at 28, 3O5, ,324 poods from all the working
factories, about q, 1,0O0,000 of which is
required for use in European Russia
| N. Y. Sun.
If NJ. Jansen can persuade the
French authorities, it is probable that
| before the century is ended we shall
have an observatory as near the summit
of Mont Blanc as it is possible to erect
a habitable dwelling. That will put the
observatory on Ben Nevis quite into the
shade, and even the Lick Observatory
will be in the second rank. M. Jansen
has recently been up the mountain, and
has made careful note of the difficulties,
but gives a decided opinion that it is
possible to establish station on what
is practically the summit" of Mont
Blanc-or at least an elevation of Is, 600
feet or more above the level of the sea-.
Curious persons may like to test the
accuracy of some observations by DIR.
Terc, an Austrian physician. He as
| serts that persons stung by bees are
exempt for several months from the eff
fects of further stinging, protection be-
ing afforded in the same manner that
vaccination protects from smallpox.
He has also noticed that many stings
are required to affect sufferers from
acute rheumatism, but that after evi-
dence of poisoning, the persons are not
only secure from further stings, but
frO,,, fha 1.ha11Il1 n tir1,7 itca1f
"A prominent English statistical
writer, in speaking of the cotton manu-.
facture in England estimates that the
capital invested in the various branches
of the same in Great Britain alone car
not fall very far short of SIS, 900, 900, ol
S375, 900, 900. He basis his calculations
as follows: Taking the spindles at ths
figure of It's. Cd. each, and the looms al
et6 each, the amount invested in plants
will touch 5,OOO,O 900, and adding t.
this a floating capital of 100000, OOt
fully, which win be necessary to the
trade in importing the raw material
converting it into fabric, and distrib
uting the same to the world, total i
obtained which indicates what is a
stake in this mighty industry"
When, in protoplasm, the matte
out of which the plant cell is built VI
was discovered, it was believed we wer,
nearing the problem of the origin o
life. But no one has ever made it an,
clearer than before how life came to b.
given to even this pristine, organic ma
terial Dr. Julius Wiesner now con
: tends that even protoplasm is made u
of plasomes, and that the whole mass o
/ material is formed from the origina
plasome by division, just as one cell i
| by division formed from another cell
) Whence the life in this original, minut
} and almost inconceivable plasome is de
rived is as much mystery as eyer.-N
= Y. Independent.