The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1894-02-08
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

Georgia sends out every year about
100000 bales of cotton and cuts every
year 200, 600, 900 feet of lumber.
Maryland grows every year over
$40, 600, 900 of farm products, and packs
over 1000, 900 cases of fruits and vege-
tables.
Iowa produces 1866, 900, 900 of farm
products every year. The corn crop
reaches 323, ,0OO 600 bushels; wheat, 81
900, 900; oats, 80,01o,OOO; potatoes, 2O,-
600, ,0O0
A new process of making rain was
recently brought before the Academic
des Sciences, Paris, by NJ. Baudoin
His theory is that electricity maintains
the water in clouds in a state of small
drops and that if electricity be dis
charged the water will come down.
Colorado has 5000, 900 acres under
artificial irrigation. The farm prod
ucts exceed $12, 900, 900 a year; there
are l ,500 900 cattle, 10000 sheep; the
coal fields cover 40, 900 square miles;
the supplies of marble, granite and
other building stone are inexhaustible,
1t may be doubted, says an English
writer, whether our measurement of
animal courage has yet been suffi-
GENTLY extended, for there appear in
stances in which the acts of daring are
|. prompted by sense of obedience, of
discipline, and even of duty-some thing
similar in kind to that which marks
and distinguishes the highest forms of
courage in man.
"A novel kind of cab has lately been
tried in Berlin. In appearance it is not
unlike large bath chair with two
seats, and is propelled by petroleum
naphtha motor. 1t has three wheels,
and carries only two persons, including
the driver. The motor is of nearly two
horse power, and produces, on good
roads, d speed of about eleven miles an
hour -
Sir Charles Lyall, basing his esti-
mate on notifications of certain spe-
cies of marine life, assigned 24O, 900, 900
years as the req uired length of geo.
logic time. Darwin claimed 200 900, 900
years; Crowell, about ~, 900, 900; Geikie,
from $4,000, 900 upward; Alexander
Winchell, but 3, 900, 900; McGee, Upham
and other recent authorities claim from
100, 0O0,000 up to $50, 900, 600 years.
1t is said by an Indian botanist that
some plants can see. This is as start
| ling as the statement made some time
ago, and now conclusively demon
strated, that certain plants have the
| sense of touch. Experiments have
| shown that plants have tendency to
grow towards supports placed at a
little distance from them, and will
even grow away from the light in
| order to reach objects about which
they may twine themselves.
-Polygonum sakhalia is the name
of forest plant from the island of
Sakhalien, Japan, of which fiattering
accounts are given by NJ. Doumet
| Adanson, who has cultivated few
stools of it in France. He got it as an
| ornamental plant and it is really very
handsome. 1t grows to be about six
feet high in three weeks; produces a
! considerable foliage of which cattle
are fond; and yields a good second crop
| aftef the first cutting. A section of
root planted will produce stool cover
| ing a square meter of surface. 1t
takes care of itself.-Popular Science
Monthly
Liquid chlorine is now being pre-
pared on a large scale in Europe for
use in chemical work. The gas is
liquifed by a special form of pump
and is kept or transported in iron or
steel cylinders, which themselves weigh
about 100 Kilograms and hold fifty kilo-
grams of liquid chlorine, equivalent to
about $1,000 liters of chlorine gas The
density of the liquid chlorine is about
1.33; at Is degrees c. its pressure is six
kilograms; II IS degrees c. it is ten at
mospheres The cylinders are tested
for more than 100 atmOspheres.
The English coal strike extended
ever-twe1ve weeks; it kept 25O, 900 men
ont of employment and reduced tens of
thousands of families to destitution;
the loss in miners wages alone is com
puted at S22, 100000 and the loss in in
dustries dependent upon coal mining
is put at s23, 500, 900; the miners funds
exhausted by the fight amounted to
81, 100000 and the public charity was
drawn upon to the extent of 50, 500, 900,
| lneSe losses together amounted 10
$50 600, ,O00 and it is said that the loss
Of manufacturers and mine owners
profits and the indirect injury to trade
would bring the total up to $3.50, 900, 900.
Annihilation of the Feathered Tribes.
An American dealer sold last yeal
two million bird skins. All were usec
for ornanenting women's attire. Wo
men ought to cry down this vanity tina
feeds and pampers the destruction o
the feathered tribes, The birds sacri
feed are, of course, those Of the riches
plumage and, of course, also, those tina
will be least easily replaced In fact
if this thing continues American birC
life of the gentler order will prett
soon become extinct. Is not the wa.
fare the American Humane society ha
opened upon the bird skin traffi
wholly justifable? We think so. TIL
destruction referred to contributes nc
one whit to human need or human CON
fort. 1t adds nothing to the intellec
ual, nothing to the mental. 1t