The Bossier banner., 1893-10-12
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

BY contact with this planet meteor
ties are raised to temperature which
reaches from 5000, 900 to 1000, 900 de-
grees-high enough to consume the
hardest known substance almost in
stantly Thus only those of large size
reach the earth before being entirely
burnt up.
A constant and large increase is
noted in the output of the oil wells of
the Caspian region. About 5000 tons
are exported every working day of the
year from Batoum alone, and the ex-
ports of last year were 63,633 tons in
excess of those of the previous year.
Two wave motor pumps have been
in operation some time out near the
Cliff house, not far from San Francisco
that have raised 100000 gallons per
day into reservoir at an elevation of
100 feet The Pacific Lum herman says:
''This appears to be the best result
that we know as having been obtained
from the various wave motors that
have been tried during the past six or
seven years"
Winged ants always fly in COM
panies, sometimes very numerous.
When Col Augustus Frazier, on Octo-
Der 6, 1918, was watching the battle of
the Pyrenees from the mountain called
Pena de Aya he and his officers were
suddenly surrounded by such cloud
of ants that their view of the battle
was cut off and they were compelled to
seek another station.
The reimposition of the Mexican
duty on corn, and the satisfactory crop
in Mexico, which is the cause of it,
means good deal to Kansas and Texas
and Missouri which have been doing a
good business feeding the republic
south of us. The corn exports from
this country to Mexico, without meal,
were as follows, in bushels: 1890, 961,-
45s; 1891. 615, 1882; 1892, 754,54S; 1898
(eleven months), 6,544, 166.-N. Y. Jour-
hal of Commerce.
Coal first came into use i'll England
in 1884. During the last ten years there
were produced 11,0S6, 900, 900 tons, and
coal fields have been discovered in
every country in the world. 1t is es-
timated that the coal fields now known
demand for 1000 years, which will give
the world time to look round and either
discover more or find proper substi-
| tute.
The state farm at Roanoke, n. c.,
employs more than sec convicts, who
have under cultivation about 5000
acres. There will be an enormous crop
this season. The cornfeld contains
about 2, 900 acres, and will yield about
100, 900 bushels; the cotton crop will be
about 1000 bales More than 5000
| bushels of wheat have been harvested
and the pea crop will amount to about
| 10000 bushels.
DIR. Bowdler Sharpe suggested in a
recent lecture on the geographical dis
| tribution of birds before the Royal
Institution of London that there was
once great continent with its center
| at the South Pole, now submerged
under {, 900 fathoms of ocean. It en-
braced, he said. South America, NADIA
gascar, Mauritius, New Zealand and
Australia; and thus he explained the
| existence of the cognate struthious
birds that now exist, or once existed,
in those countries.
Chemists turn scrap iron into ink,
old bones into lucifer matches, the
shavings of the blacksmith shop into
Prussian blue, fusel oil into oil OF
apples and pears, the DRAWINGS of COW
houses into fashionable perfumery,
beggars' rags into new pilot coats, cess
| pool filth into ammonia, and tar waste
into aniline dyes and saccharine. In
Paris they first utilize rats to clear the
flesh from the bones of carcasses, then
kill the rats use up their fur for trim
fnings, their skin for gloves, their thigh
bones for toothpicks, and their tendons
and bones for gelatine wrappers.
1t is familiar fact that persons
born deaf are Iisttally mute not from
any congenital defect in the organs OF
speech. but from the fact that, never
having heard others speak, they cannot
initiate articulate utterance. It's prob
ably true, too, that the source of some
current errors of speech among those
who are not esteemed deaf lies in &
defect Of hearing. Many persons who
habituallv tack on the ''r' sound tt
words edding in ''w" say that they ar
unable to distinguish, for example, be
tween claw and 'lor."
Masks are of very ancient origin
IN tomb 5000 years old, at Mycenaee
DR.. Schliemann found two bodies will
faces covered by masks of gold. One o
the masks represented the head OF {
lion. Among ancient Greeks the liol
mask was sign of distinction. Wit
) the Peruvians of old it was mark o
royal lineage. In grave OF consider
able antiquity in Peru silver mas
J was found on the head of a mummy
The mummy of prince, who lived i
the reign of Rameses H., discovered
small vault at Memphis in Egyp
had a mask Of gold leaf over the face.
An Antarctic whaling and sealin
company designed to operate on larg
scale is being formed in Dundee. III
j promoters propose to fit up depot o
the Falkland Islands, where sealskir
could be salted, so that the ships coul
: make several trips from there to tt