The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1893-06-22
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY,

legs while fast asleep; dogs bark and
growl, and in many other ways ex-
hibit all their characteristic passions.
Les annales politiques ct litteraires
draws attention to the fact that as
phyxiated people may be saved by sys-
tematic traction of the tongue. The
movement does not only consist in
raising or lowering the tongue with
the fingers covered with handker-
chief, but in using reiterated and, to
some extent, rhythmic movements.
The winter weather this year has
proved great bonanza to the rubber
shoe manufacturers and dealers, who
have sold out nearly all their stock. So
great has been the consumption it is
estimated that the output of 1898 will
have to be increased by nearly 20,000,-
900 pairs. This will tax the capacity
of the mills.
During the five years previous to
1891 there were built 24,173 more new
buildings in Philadelphia than in New
York, and 5,162 more than in New
York, Boston and Baltimore combined.
The greater number of these were small
houses intended as homes for one
family.
The natives of the southern parts
of West Virginia have a queer way of
conveying an idea of distances. The
traveller who asks how far it is to
certain point is likely to be told it is
couple O. looks,'' or "two looks an
hoot." A look is as far as you can see,
and hoot is the distance human
voice is supposed to carry.
Nearly $50, 900 cars passed through
the st. Clair tunnel of the Great Trunk
railway last year, and the business for
the current year will probably reach
275,O00. The traffic eastward and west
ward is about equal, III, 1913 freight
cars having moved east and 110, ,004 west;
the passenger cars numbering 10, ,766
east and 1881 west.-Railway Review.
A sudden loss of blood by the lam
Get or from a wound, or a rapid drain
on the vascular system, as in cholera
or diabetes, causes the intense sensa-
tion of thirst. The thirst of fever, on
the other hand, is not caused by the
lack of fluids in the system, but by the
dryness of the throat, mouth and skin,
caused by the unnaturally high tenn
perature of the blood.
Man prides himself on his stupen-
dous reasoning powers, but it is doubt
full whether other creatures have not
the same faculty in a much greater de-
gree when in connection with their pc
culiar needs. There is little doubt but
often the same bird comes to the same
locality it frequented the year before,
though it has migrated hundreds of
miles during the season. It requires
judgment to distinguish between what
the bird has or has not seen, SO as not
to take the wrong path, and Judgment
is the residuum of reason.
From the report of her majesty's
inspectors of mines, which have just
been published in their usual blue
book form, we learn that the total
quantity of mineral wrought in the
United Kingdom during 1892 amounted
to 191, ,954, 908 tons, of which 181, 1855, S71
tons were coal and 5,644, 4S6 tons iron
stone, the rest being fire clay, oil shale
and other materials. Compared with
1891, there was a total decrease of
5,73s, ,6s4 tons, the decline in coal being
3,692, ,225 tons, and in ironstone 1884,
664 tons.-Westminster Review.
The total tonnage launched in
Great Britain in 1892 was 1,300 142 tons;
about the same as in 1891 and 1890, but
40, 900 tons below $780, Excluding war
ships, the merchant tonnage fioated
was 1,131,s16 tons, considerably less
than in 1891. A larger proportion of
the total is sailing tonnage-22 per
cent, as against 1871 per cent. in 1891.
AS to material, 50 per cent. of the ship
ping built was of steel. There was a
decrease in the proportion of tonnage
built for foreign orders, which has
been falling off for several years.
Railway Review.
A physician writing of vertigo, de-
scribes five kinds, or speaks of five
causes of dizziness. ~ diseases of the
brain or spinal cord, (a) disease of the
eye or of the muscles which aid in
vision. 81 disease of the blood vessels
generally, accompanied with disease of
the heart, kidneys, liver, and other
organs, (4) toxic state of the blood or
blood impurities arising generally from
digestive arrangements, and (5) irrita-
tions in distant regions of the body,
| stomach, intestinal, uterine, etc.
Probably the most common cause OF
dizziness is indigestion of some sort
with it's consequent train of blood i'm
| purities.
Prof. o. D. Hopkins, entomologist
at the West Virginia Agricultural Ex'
pertinent station at Morgantown, is
| at Charleston, w. Va, on his way to
Raleigh, Webster, Pocahontas, Ran,
dolph and Tucker counties in an at
tempt to save the pine forests in those
counties from destruction by small
insect. During last summer he spent
some time in the Black Forest of Ger
| many, and has found a small, prolific
insect which feeds upon the injuriou
ones, multiplies rapidly, and is no
harmful to timber. Several thousan'
have been imported, and Prof. Hop
kins is now distributing them.
Expert Testimony.
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