The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1894-03-22
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

The bee works harder than most
people would believe. There are about
sixty flower tubes in every head of clo-
yer, and only tiny morsel of honey in
each. In order to get enough sugar
for load the bee must visit about
5000 different flowers, and each bee
trips day.
Notwithstanding the fostering care
of the French government, sheep breed
ing has declined in Algeria, and official
reports show that for several years past
there has been a progressive decrease
in the number of sheep. The present
number is estimated at S,S96,00O, the
estimates being based on official fig
ures
During the last seven years the
area devoted to indigo in India has
been about 800, 900 acres, but in 1912
it sunk nearly one-third. A favorable
season and a rise in the price of indigo
the industry in 1898, and the area of
cultivation was estimated at $50, 900
acres. The output was about so per
cent above the average rail exports
for the last twelve years.
If the reported results of recent
researches in diphtheria by the Bacte-
biological bureau of the New York
health department are confirmed, they
are extremely important. The power
to transmit the infection of diphtheria,
it is found, fingers sometimes for as
much as twelve days and occasionally
three or four weeks in patients who
have made an apparently perfect re-
covery from this most deadly disease:
N. Y. Herald.
DIR. William C. Braislin shows that
in negroes the nasal canals are wider,
shorter and less deep than in other
races, and thereby less protection is
afforded the lungs. The author be-
lieves that the African nose, being
adapted to a tropical climate, is not
suited for the colder climates, and that
in this lies the greater susceptibility of
the negro to consumption and other
diseases depending upon irritating
qualities in the atmosphere.
Experiments in magnetizing and
concentrating the low grade soft, red
ores of some southern districts are in
process, and said to be so far promising
of good results. The consulting chem
ist of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and
Railroad Company, operating upon
5000 pounds at time of the crude ore
which contained 40 per cent. of iron
and 20 of silica, has been able'to secure
81 per cent of iron and reduce silica 10
per cent.-Age of Steel.
Obstinate nose bleeding is fire.
quently one of the most difficult things
to check. Several aggravated cases
have lately occurred at the hospital of
the University of Pennsylvania. AS
last resort DR.. D. Hayes Agnew tried
ham fat with great success. Two large
cylinders of bacon were forced well
into the postrils and the hemorrhage
ceased at once. This is very simple
remedy and one which should be re-
membered for cases of emergency in
the country.
The deepest boring of which we
have any knowledge up to the present
time, says Revue Scientifque, is at
Parvschowitz, in the district of Rib
mix, in Western Silesia. The depth
attained is G, 56S feet, and the diameter
of the hole is only ATS inches The
work has been temporarily stopped, in
order to lower especial thermometers,
which have been made with great ac-
curacy, into the hole for the purpose
of obtaining the temperature at differ
ent depths. The boring will then be
resumed, and it is hoped that the depth
of 8, 200 feet will be reached.
I'm German medical journal DIR.
P. Furbinger treats of the peanut as
an article of food rich in albumen, of
which it contains Al per cent, together
with 10 per cent. of fat and non-nitro-
genous extractive matters. He recon-
mends the use of roasted peanuts in
the form of soup or mush. On account
of their cheapness peanuts are recon-
mended as a popular article of food,
especially in poorhouses and the like;
moreover, they are recommended as an
article Of food for the corpulent, dia-
betics and for the subjects of kidney
disease, in the last mentioned of whom
foods rich in animal albumen are to be
avoided.-N. Y. Tribune.