The Bossier banner., 1892-09-22
SCIENCE. AND INDUSTRY.

There are in Russia 312 match man.
ufactories, with an aggregate production
of 139, 704, 900 matches. Of these works n
per cent manufacture PHOSPHORUS
matches.
The wheat exports of india in 1891
were 46, 600, 900 bushels, as against 22,-
4O4, 116 bushels in 1890. The 1891 ex.
ports were the largest ever known, the |
next highest being 81, ,75S, 1873 bushels in |
1886. The crop of 1892 is promising bet
ter than was formerly reported, owing to |
good rainfalls coming late in the season. |
British India has revolutionized the |
worlds trade in cinchona bark and tea
by beginning the cultivation of these
two products until the Indian yield has
nearly doubled the worlds supply. The
government of Ceylon has now begun
the cultivation of the Indian rubber tree.
-Photographing under water has
actually been carried out, SO it is said.
Experiments were made in 1889 in the
Mediterranean to ascertain how far
daylight penetrated under water. In
very clear water near Corsica, and
eighteen miles from land, the limit OF
daylight was found by means of photo
graphic plates to be 1,5S0 feet. @
Europe has 10000, 900 beehives, and
produces 3O7, 100000 pounds of honey,
while the United States has 2,5O0,0O0
hives, and produces 6l.0So,oo pounds
of honey. The largest apiarist in the
world is M. Harbicon, of California,
who has 5000 hives, yielding 100000
pounds of honey yearly. 1t is estimated
that bee must visit 21s, 750 flowers for
each ounce of honey gathered.
The United States is fast crowding
Switzerland out of the watch market,
and there lis no part of the world, no
matter how remote, where the tick OF
the American watch cannot be heard.
To-day American factories turn out. 35,-
900 watches week. Almost the only
time-pieces imported are repeaters,
stop-watches and those having special
movements, which bring high price
San Francisco Bulletin.
"A gentleman in New York has re-
Gently tested the result of preserving a
turkey In a refrigerator for ten years,
SAYS the Boston Medical and Surgical
Journal. This time having elapsed. the
fowl was removed from the refrigerator,
and after being properly cooked was
eaten by party of gentlemen. While
putrefactive changes seem to have been
entirely absent it was found that the
meat was practically tasteless.-Science
According to the Colliery Guardian
. M. Daubree, professor of geology at thu
Ecole d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, hal
) found that the temperature attained il
several processes are not nearly so higf
as is generally supposed; for instance
: that of the Bessemer converter is from
, $3.50 to !, ,5s0e cen tigrade; molten stee
from 1850 to 1,64Oo; the Siemens fur
, mace from 1,O45 to 1890 O, and incan
, descent electric lamps from 1880 t
/ 9,100o.
{ ---Lime-water has "a tendency to max
children grow, and in countries wher
q the drinking water is heavily impreg
q mated with it, the. men are apt to b
(; tall 1t is now used very extensively il
|. the milk for children; but it should no
q be restricted to children. For perfec
9 sanitary diet alkaline water is needle
J. for every persons who eats heavily G
v meat; and this means nearly everybod
r excepting the vegetarians.
:. As rule, deep-sea animals have n
o eyes, showing that they have no nee
of them. The fact that they are sui
/. jected to enormous pressure is shown b
many of them bursting open whe
"a brought to the surface. Some of ther
y have very bright colors, and they al
q found most abundantly along the cours
of the great current, showing that thes
rivers in the ocean bring large amour
of food for the deep-sea fauna.
r oil has hitherto been the only mi
terial that has been successfully en-
So ployed for breaking the force OF tt
d. waves. An ingenious inventor viii
i. crossing the Gulf stream observed tn;
70 the vast fields of floating sea-wee
v though upheaved by the swell, alwa.
7a remained CLASSY and smooth, and tn
OF suggested to him the idea of device Fl
in lessening the force of the waves. II
"a invention consists of a thin cotton
ar silken net rendered non-submersible
ne being dipped in a special chemical COZ
IN position. The device is being expel
D. mented with By the Paris society for t
oy saving of life in shipwrecks, and it h
of been found to act as wave-dispeller
ed the same manner as the sea-weed in t
it Gulf acknowledgements News.
n Boys Thrilling Adventure,
OF At sugar mill on the island of B;
IS BADGES the men in attendance we