The Bossier banner., 1891-09-24
scleNeg ANp INnpsrRY.


is the fact that Alabama produces more
iron ore than Pennsylvania.
-Borers of the city artesian well at
Fort Worth, Tex are of the opinion
that, the drill will soon penetrate huge
volume of boiling water, as the tenn
peratare increases with every few feet
they go down, and at last accounts was
121 degrees, at depth Of 1900 feet
1t is mistake to suppose the.
weather is colder the farther north one
goes. The northern pole of greatest
cold is only about 800 miles northeast OF
Y Yalzutsk, Siberia, where the mean an
nual temperature is little lower than
in the highest latitudes reached by
Mares and Greedy, 1000 miles further
north. ~ .e.,7.se. z..ra.
If cloth can be made out of fine
spun glass, it would seem a simple mat
ter to make it out of wood. This is now
done by boiling strips of fine grained
timber, crushing them between rolls.
carding the filaments into parallel lines,
as with ordinary textile material, anc
spinning them into threads, from which
the cloth can be woven in the usual lway.
The majority of people die sooner
than they should. George E. Waring,
Jr., says: ''Disease is not consequence
of life; it is due to unnatural conditions
| of living-to neglect, abuse and want
And Dr. Stephen Smith says: Man is
born to health and longevity; disease is
abnormal and death, except from OLD
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ventable by human agencies"
The Reading Iron Company, OF
Reading, Pa, it is stated, is shipping
large quantities of iron tubing to the
Turkish and Russian oil fields. 1t re
Gently sent 5000 feet of six, eight and
ten-inch pipe to Batoum, on the Black
Sea. Ten-inch piping is being made fol
shipment to Australia, and ice-mal1ins
piping for Mexico.
According to an Austrian journal
one of the most extensive velvet manu-
factories in that country has adopted {
very original and effective method il
the publication Of its waste waters
Briefly, the water, colored with analine
and different vegetable dyestuffs, ant
which often looks like ink, is purified
by system Of cleansing basins. Ther
a mixture of sulphate of iron and sui
phate of magnesia, or bitter salt, il
made to flow into the escaping water
which, after standing some thirty
hours, is allowed to escape into th'
river or creek. = Philadelphia Tele
graph. gUist1a rHfag8f
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trio acid abundant in annual plants
and more or less in nearly all families
of plants. a. singular observation j
that where plants formerly supposed t.
be root-parasites, and now called sapro
phytes, are connected a with certain
bush-roots. Such roots have no nitri
acid. For instance, the cancer root !
only found under beech trees, and ye
no connection exists between the beec
! and this plant. These roots ought nc
to have any nitric acid, if Sarno
right, $50
I "A lover of antiquities in Odessa hs
$ acquired some archaic treasures whic
were dug from the soil of ancient 0lyil
/ now the village of Parootine, in Khei
: son. They consist of ancient ornament
? of gold, silver and alabaster of exquil
e ite workmanship. They seem to belon
t to the time when the arts of seulptur
( and engraving were, in their bloom
d Greece. The Russian papers ,regrt
s that such antiquarian treasures shoul
d be kept in q private house instead of
n public museum, where the student an
e the artist could freely examine them.
:, The board of managers of the Ge
r graphical society of Russia have mao
u an agreement with the managers of IL
X Academy of Science TO combine the
n ethnographical and archaeological M
n seums and to exhibit all their antiqu
ei rian and historical treasures in the hal
of the academy. This will eonstitu
d the st. Petersburgh Museum of Et
= biography and Archaeology, the richie
le in Europe, containing more objects
y curiosity than any similar institutio
u A catalogue of all the antiquities of Il
n museum will be issued by the Ge
a graphical society.
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