The Bossier banner., 1893-12-28
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

Washington has salmon fisheries
worth 81, 500, 900 a year and catches 1O,-
900 fur seals. 1t exports sS,O0O coo
worth of lumber and coal and raises
$4,000, 900 bushels of wheat.
1t is stated that ordinary bricks
boiled in tar for about twelve hours, or
until they are saturated with it, are
increased about so per cent. in weight,
are much harder than common ones
md unaffected by frost and acids as
we'll as perfectly waterproof. They
form an excellent flooring for work
shops or storerooms, particularly in
chemical establishments.
Some very Industrious students of
microscopy, as applied to medical
problems, have been Offering pretty
strong evidence that parasites are the
origin of malignant and cancerous
tumors: so the Pathological society, of
London, appointed committee to in
vestigate the evidence, which commit
tee unanimously reports that, notwith-
standing the labor expended, the point
is not proved-the parasites are not
demonstrated
According to the Medical Record,
DR.. A. E. Wright states it to be fact
that total color blindness is very rare;
also, that yellow-blue color blindness is
very rare. The common form is the
the green-red blindness. Most color
blind men can readily distinguish yell
lows and blues, and the doctor pro-
1o fe c1 l,or
distinctly yellowish tinge, and the green
lights distinctly blush tinge. In this
way the difference between signals
could be readily made out by almost
all the color blind.
Ample food for reflection on the
possibilities of the English (?) Ian
guage in the production of compound
words will be found in almost any
chemical journal. We are told that an
eminent chemist "when studying para
amidotolueneorthoth acid
had changed this thiosulphonic acid
into the corresponding sulphinic acid.
On diazotizing the paraamidoorthoto-
luenesulphinic acid, and decomposing
the diazo compound in absolute me-
thvlic alcohol, he obtained noncrys-
talizing acid, which he called oxyme-
thyloluenesulphonic acid" - Youths
Journal.
The treasury official statement of
the comparative receipts and eXpendi-
lures of the United States, issued No
vember /, shows that for the first four
months of the current fiscal year the
!, HoA 4 h g
by S24, 900, 600, or at the rate of So, 000,-
900 a year. The receipts are $27, ,0OO,0 900
less than for the corresponding four
months of the previous fiscal year, and
the expenditures are nearly 100000
greater than for the same period.
There has been a net increase of S16,
| 5O4, 764 in the circulation since the 1st
of October, and the circulation per cap
ita is now S25.49
New York grows 5000, 900 tons of
| hay and raises 3d. 600, 600 bushels of po-
tatoes. The internal trade of New
York exceeds s., 900, 600, 900 a year;
81, $50, 900, 600 of freight passes over the
railroads, $3.50, 900, 900 over the canals
and $3.50. 900, 600 over the Sound and
lakes. New York sustains over 1, 900
newspapers and periodicals, has $780,,
| 900, 900 in the savings banks, $500, 000,
300 in insurance companies and $780,
900, 900 in capital and loans of the
banks. There are 5000 miles of rail-
roads, which cost over 100000, 900.
There are %, 900, 600 acres of farm lands,
valued at 1855, 600, 900, and annually
producing S17S, 900, OOO
The production of cotton is rapidly
increasing in quantity in the transcas-
plan provinces of Russia. Last year as
many as ~, 565 tons of raw cotton were
transported across the Caspian to Baku,
and thence blythe Transcaucasian rail
way to Batoum and Poti. After re-
shipment at these places the cotton
was conveyed to Odessa and Sebas-
topol, and thence to the weaving mills
at Lodz, Warsaw and those in the
Moscow district. 1t being cheaper than
either American or Egyptian cotton,
which pays very heavy import duty,
it may be that in few years, when
the cotton crop of the transcaspian
provinces will suffice to furnish the
raw material required by the Russian
mills, American and Egyptian cotton
will cease to be bought in Russia.