The Bossier banner., 1894-01-18
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

year z, 600, 900 baskets of peaches and
makes ever 10000 gallons of apple
jack.
Louisiana has but tenth of the
arabic land under cultivation, but pro-
duces 12O, 200, 900 pounds of rice, $50, 900
hogsheads of sugar and 500, 900 barrels
of molasses.
The American locomotive is finding
its way into every quarter of the globe
Chile has now given an order for twelve
at cost Of S160, 900. During the past
two years we have sent 355 to South
America and seventy-five to Australia.
Brazil, it would seem, orders all the
headlights used on its locomotives IN
this country.
The cave animals of North Amer
lea, according to Prof. A. S. Packard,
of Brown university, comprise one
hundred and seventy-two species of
blind creatures, nearly all of which
are mostly white in color. He de-
scribed their anatomy and discussed
their origin in an exhaustive paper
Sciences.
The physiological mechanism of
blushing has been carefully studied.
and shown to be n momentary fainting
fit provoked by certain emotions, the
heart stopping for second, after
which the organ starts with new force
and sends the blood bounding through
the physical blush and the feeling
which causes it has not been ascer-
tanned.
Over forty railroads have gone Into
the hands of receivers thus far this
year. They represent about $4,000
miles of road, with nearly 900 millions
of bonded debt, and 1925 millions of
stock debt In the disastrous years of
1S73-74, the mileage of roads which
fell into receivership was IS, 347 with
bonded debt of 5532s millions and
stock debt of 37215 millions-Wall
Street News.
This seasons orange crop in Florida
was much above the average in guam
tity, being estimated at 1000, 900 boxes,
and was much earlier than usual.
While during the whole of last season
some IS, 900 boxes were shipped through
Savannah to New York City, more than
So, 900 boxes have already been shipped
this year. Usually large shipments
have also been made to Europe, where
Florida oranges are now beginning to
compete successfully with Mediterra-
mean fruit.
The much-disputed question of the
loftiest mountain on the North Ameri-
can continent has at last been settled.
John Partridge, secretary of the Geo
graphical society of the Pacific, has
received letter from the chief of the
United States coast and geodetic sur
vey, Washington, D. c., stating that
Mt. Orizaba in Mexico, is the highest.
Mt. St. Elias, Alaska, has for many
years past been considered the highest,
but Orizaba has been proved to be the
higher by 299 feet The exact figures,
as forwarded to Secretary Partridge,
are: Mt. Orizaba, 1854 feet; Mt st.
Elias, 1S,O15 feet.
The total heat of combustion of one
pound of hydrogen is 50, O32 units, and
of one pound of carbon IA, 500 units. 1t
requires 1894 units of heat to convert
water at temperature of zero to steam
of 100 pounds pressure, but as steam is
generally generated from water aver
aging about sixty degrees the total
heat required to convert it into steam
is only l, 1884 units, and one pound Of
bituminous coal of average quality con-
tains heat enough to convert twelve
and one-half pounds of water at this
| temperature into steam of 100 pounds
absolute pressure.
-Overproduction has become a sub
| iect of serious concern with those in.
terested in several prominent industries
of the west. There is a prospective de-
crease in California's vintage, little
money in cattle raising, and horse rails
ing has similarly slumped. A few days
ago the Missouri State Horticultural
society occupied itself in serious con.
sideration of the topic. Secretary Good.
man said that SO many millions ofapple
trees have been planted in the past few
years that soon there will be portions
of the country where it will not pay to
gather the fruit. Something like 100.-
900 acres have been planted with apple
trees in the past three years in south
ern Illinois, Missouri and Arkansas.
One speaker thought the fruit business
would meet general failure soon, and
later would become success with a
few after many had gone to the wall
Rose Cloth.