The Bossier banner., 1891-09-17
NUMBER 20
scIENcE ANp lNpusrRY.


lone of Tampa's principal cigar fac.
tories viii turn out Is, 900, 900 cigars this
year.
The south will shortly supply the
country's lumber demand. There are
$500 sawmills running there already
French specialists, sent to examine
the condition of vineyards, report that
French vines grated on American stock
produce better wine than the native
vines. We have been for long time
sending over our wine to get the French
brand; now we will send over the vines
themselves.
The reclamation of the Okenseno-
kee swamp in Georgia by means OF
drainage canals running to the st.
Mary's is proposed The area of the
swamp is o76 square miles There will
be about sixty-four miles of main and
1000 miles of lateral canals and many
small agricultural drains.
The use of nitrogen as an anBs.
thetic was recently successfully tried
in England. Nine patients took the
gas, and in every case the result was
the production of complete an@sthesia.
The pulse was first full and throbbing,
then feeble. In the advanced stage the
respiration was deep and rapid and
there was lividity of the surface, the
pupils were dilated, and there was
more or less jactitation Of the limbs.
"A recent official report states that
all over Russia British goods are pre-
| ferred to those of German and French
make, but owing to the considerable
difference in price, the excessive trans
port charges and the unwillingness of
the British manufacturers to alter their
patterns to suit the requirements Of
Russia, the goods of the latter countries
are rapidly ousting those originating
from Great Britain.
The Philadelphia Bulletin is author
ity for the statement that the phonograph
has been employed in New York to re-
port the utterances of monkeys, scien-
tific men having become convinced that
their chattering is a language intel
ligible among themselves. Their pho
rographed talk has been repeated to the
animals with startling effect, and they
have endeavored with their long arms
to draw out the ape concealed in the
instrument
The new spectroscope without .
lens consists of a paper tube with a
two-and-one-half-inch adjustable slit,
similar to parallel tube at one end,
and prism at the other, the length OF
the tube being such as to allow of the
slit being at the distance of distinct
vision, equal to the purposes of observa-
ton; for, though the spectroscope ia
destitute of lens, the eye acts the
part, and produces the image on the
retina, which image is dispersed by the
interposed prism. Comparison prisms
or mirrors easily can be placed before
the slit.-N Y. Sun.
Among the results of Prof. Angelo
Hellprin's study of the geology and
paleontology of the eretaceous deposits
of Mexico, made during his expedition
to that country in the spring of 1890.
are the conclusions that the deposits,
covering or scattered over large part
of the country, are continuous with the
cretaceous area of the interior basin Of
the United States; that they are part
of the middle or upper cretaceous series;
that no true lower eretaceous beds have
been so far identified in Texas or Arkan-
sas; and that no marine deposits of un-
equivocally lower cretaceous age have
thus far been determined in the United
States east of the Rocky Mountains.
"A discovery more curious than any
other. yet made with the Lick telescope,
which, as all will recall, is the most
powerful glass in the world, is the re-
cent one of new moon. The early
morning observers at Mount Hamilton,
Cal, have lately kept sharp eye turned
upon the shadow of one of the moons
of the planet Jupiter. This shadow
seemed double, indicating that the tiny
moon which cast it is also double.
Since the first hint of the discovery
many observations have been made
through the Lick glass, all tending tc
confirm the original impression to wit
That this particular satellite of tbs
greatest of the planets is double-a dol
of moon revolving around the mair
|