The Bossier banner., 1892-09-15
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

I'm 1891, says Stah1 una Eisen, Ger
many imported from Sweden and Nor
way las, $3.50 tons of iron ore, of which
62,6s9 tons went to Westphalia and S5,-
941 tons to upper Schleswig.
The daily capacity of the Pillsbury-
Washburn Flour Mills Company is f5,ss
500 barrels; of the Northwestern Con.
solidated Milling Company, 10,5O0; OK
the Washburn-Crosby Company, 10000,
and of the Minneapolis Flour Manufac
turing Company, 5000.
The microscope has revealed many
wonders, among others that the COM
mon caterpillar has 1900 muscles in his
body; that the drone bees eyes each
contain 1900 mirrors, and that the large
prominent eyes of the brilliant dragon
flies are each furnished with 5000 poll
ished lenses.
Tobacco has been cultivated, with
more or less success, in southern Queens
land for many years. the duty on im-
ported leaf being thirty-ive cents, and
upon manufactured tobacco seventy
five cents per pound, while the local ar
ticle pays no duty. There are ten cigar
factories in the colony.
The amount of whalebone taken
annually does not now much exceed
200, 600 pounds. The largest of this is
taken by the whalers sailing out of
ports on the Pacific coast A few years
ago the amount taken reached as high
rs 100000 pounds, annually, and in
some years it went above these figures
The price has gone up from SO cents a
pound to So wholesale.-Boston Tran
script.
I'm Russia there are 750, 900 acres
planted to sunfowers. One variety
has small seeds for the production OF
oil; the other has larger seeds, and Is
used for consumption, like our peanuts.
The average yield is 1880 pounds per
acre, and the seeds sell at one and
one-half cents per pound, the farmers
income being $50 per acre.
The total area cultivated in En-
gland in 1891 was 4s, 179,47 acres, as
against 4S,O45,755 acres in 1890. The
cereal crops in 1891 covered Q, ,44S, 500
acres, as against 8, STA, ,349 acres in 1890;
green crops, 4,51O, 653 acres in 1891, and
1854, 145 acres last year; hops, SO, 145
acres, against 81, 555 acres; small fruits,
60, 1877 acres, compared with 40, 7S3 acres
in Is. O.
"A scientist states that in the course
of about 100000 years from now the
forces at work on the earth will have
completely leveled its surface, so that
there will no longer be hills or valleys,
continents or distinctive oceans. All
the land will have been washed down
into the sea, which will then cover all
with a watery mantel and render inn
possible any life except that which can
exist without dry land.
M. Lipmann has terminated, for a
time, his experiments at LaSarbonne In
obtaining colored photographs. He has
succeeded in getting four, which are to
be presented to the Academy at the
next sitting. One represents fragment
| of painted glass window, with four
colors; the second a basket of oranges;
| the third two flags, those OF Russia and
and France; the fourth a superb macaw.
The colors are most brilliant, but the
learned experimentalist grieves to say
| that he cannot yet master the repro
duction of several colors, but hopes for
success by means, of that all-powerful
aid perseverance, .-Philadelphia Record.
MANY tons of beeswax are imported
| to this country from tropical and sub
i tropical parts of this continent and
| from Spain. Much of this comes from
Cuba, where tropical vegetation sup
| ports and employs an enormous number
~R I.zaz NF,.al, ~ 41,o l,ar
in great masses shaped like the frus-
trum of pyramid, and weighing from
sixty-five to seventy pounds each. In
spite of the fact that various substi-
tutes for wax have been discovered, II
is still used in great quantities in the
manufacture of cand les, especially for
ecclesiastical use. Much OF 1t, too, is
used in the manufacture of wax lay fig
ures, not only for m useums and the like,
but for milliners and mantua makers.
1t is now reported that an efficient
anecdote for poisoning by carbolic acid
has been discovered by an Italian tailor
who swallowed by mistake thirty
grammes of earbolic acid DIR. Morett,
of Ancona, using a rubber sound, imme-
diately introduced by slow degrees into
the patients stomach strong solution
| of sulphate of soda, which forms with
T carbolic acid harmless mixture. In
an hours time the patient, who had
been in a most critical condition, began
to revive, the pulse became better and
the respiration improved. Limitations
| of ammonia were then used to hasten
up the process, and little by little tbs
poisoned man rallied SO much that ar
emetic, followed by a dose OF Inns
water, finished the cure.
A Rural Directory.
"My little man, can you tell ms
where Mr.. Sanford hves?"
"Thir?''