The Bossier banner., 1894-01-04
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY,

| - A'NttS1 SSA GEtiIl regiments W1I1
o,5lO men were placed under observa.
ton. They were divided into free
| drinkers, moderate drinkers and alb.
stalners. 1t was found that the deaths
OF the former were A per 900, of the
moderate drinkers % per 1000, and OF
the abstainers only II per l 1000
The depth to which the suns ravs
penetrate water has been recently de-
termlned by the aid of photography, If
has been found that at depth of $50
feet the darkness was to all intents
and purposes the same as that on a
clear but moonlesS night. Sensitized
plates exposed at this depth for con-
siderable length of time gave no evi.
dence of light actiOn.-Scientific Amer
lean.
The New York clearing house loan
certificates have all been Cancelled. The
first issue of certificates was on June
II, when 81, $50, 900 were issued. A total
OF S41 400, 900 were issued, but the max
lmum amount outstanding at any one
time was S3S, $780, 900. 1t is said that of
the S55, $4,000 of collateral deposited
to secure the certificates issued this
year not single dollar, as far as is
known, proved bad
Arkansas has 1000 farms which
produces 100000 bales of cotton, 900.
600 bushels of sweet potatoes, /, ZOO, OOO
pounds of tobacco, AZ, 900, 900 bushels of
corn, and 10000 bushels of wheat.
From the Arkansas forests are cut
over $50, 900, 900 of lumber every year.
-One art that seems to have vastly
improved within the last twenty-five
years is that of annealing glass. The
lamp chimneys OF to-day withstand
sudden changes of temperature that
would instantly have shivered those of
three decades ago, and it seems now
almost impossible to break one save by
a blow
1t appears from the official statis-
tics of the production of gold in Rus
sla in 1892 that the output of the mines
has been greatly increased by the i'm
provement of technical appliances. The
production of the precious metal has
reached total of no less than 2, 6O1
puds, as compared with 2,3S2 puds in
1891 and only 2,041 puds in 1885. TAX
ing the value of the pud on the aver
age at IA, 104 roubles, there is thus a
total of $685. 900 roubles, or upward
of s25, OOO,OO
Florida and California fruit is COM
peting successfully with Mediterranean
products in European markets this
year, and the shipments already are
largely in excess of those of previous
years. Successful experiments have
also been made this year with shin
ments of California and Washington
fruit to Japan and other countries of
the Orient. From a twenty-acre prune
ranch a Washington grower obtained
this year forty tons of dried fruit,
which he sold in Portland at s15Oa ton.
The COW has four stomachs. When
food is first swallowed it undergoes
slight masceration in the first stomach.
In the second stomach it is rolled into
small balls. These balls are brought
up into the mouth again and chewed.
That process is called Chewing the
cud." Being again swallowed they
pass into the third stomach and from
that into the fourth, where final diges-
tion takes place. When about to swal-
low food second time the cow closes
the entrances to the first and second
stomachs, SO that no miscarriage is
possible.
The movements of the herring have
long been a sore puzzle to naturalists,
and from the annual report of the fish
cry board for Scotland they seem to be
a puzzle still. 1t was originally sup
posed that the herring was bred in
Arctic seas and that, marshaled by a
sort of king fish, dense shoals of them
every season came south. 1t is known
now that herring spawn off the English
coasts, but all efforts toward getting
at the truth about the migra tory habits
have been unsuccessful. All sorts of
marking have been tried. Five hun
dred fish were captured and released
after a piece of aluminium wire bearing
a disc had been attached to their dorsal
fin, but not one returned to tell its
tale. They fit about the coasts in the
most erratic manner. The one thing
positive seems to be that they never go
very far away or for very long. If one
fishing town has an occasional lean
year there is always an abundant har.
vest for many others.