The Bossier banner., 1894-02-01
NUMBER 40.
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

farms of 10000 to $1,000 acres each.
Over 21O,0 900 tons of buffalo bones, rep
resenting 10000 animals, hava been
exported from this state.
The public cannot too clearly under
stand that medical science has nothing
more valuable to offer than its non
medicinal suggestions, grounded on
clinical and laboratory research
health maxims which, as the Paris
profligate told his DOCTOR ANY fool
knows something of, and which, Imay
add, all fools decline to pay for except
in bitter personal experience.
-California's vintage this year win
be about 5000, 900 gallons, some 3,0O0,-
900 gallons more than last years yield,
and the quality will be good. 1t is ex-
pected that the vintage of the state
will show a decrease during the next
ten years, owing to the ravages of
phylloxera and to overplauting. The
low prices caused by overproduction
tend also to place check on the in
dustry.
One way of toughening ourselves is
by means of cold foot bath. We take
way; by putting them in cold water for
about ten seconds, morning and night,
and then rubbing them till they are
red, is grand remedy for all this and
toughens us very much. Ten or fifteen
seconds are long enough, and even less
will do in the first few times. 1t is un-
wise to prolong this bath, and may do
harm.
Speaking of snakes, in answer to
question by Rusl1in, what use has a
serpent for it's tongue?' Mr.. Hudson,
after denying that it is an insect
catching organ, a decoy, or tao
tile organ, suggests that the snake
uses its tongue to concentrate the at
tention of an intended victim upon its
head, while its body is being trailed
forward to effect the capture.
A sort of anti-decay apparatus has
been invented for preserving pictures.
1t is glass tray with solid back, and
the picture is put inside and hermet-
ically sealed. The air is then ex-
hausted with an air pump, with the
result that in this vacuum the paint
will preserve its pristine freshness pret-
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New Englands S mackerel catch this
season was 81, AS barrels, an increase
of some 2,0O0 barrels over that of last
year. IS, 900 over that of the year be-
fore, and more than three times the
catch of 1890. This does not, however,
indicate, steady growth of the indus
try, for the size of the catch huctu-
ates greatly. In 1888 it was over 10000
barrels, and fell to between 10000 and
1900 the two succeeding seasons.
1t may not be known to the general
reader that rife ball DETECTED from
its course Immediately resumes its line
of fight after trimming the object it is
unable to pass directly through. That
is to say, ball turned from its course
by rib passes under the skin until it
reaches point mathematically oppo-
site to the point where it entered the
soldiers body and then passes out, re-
suming its exact line of flight, if enough
of its initial velocity remains
Goat raising is an important and
growing industry in Oregon and some
other northwestern states. One rancher
in Benton county, Ore, has fine herd of
45O goats, which includes number of
thoroughbred Angora bucks. Twenty
two cents a pound is the lowest this
man has received for fleece in a dozen
years, while frequently he has re-
ceived thirty to thirty-five cents
pound. The average yield from goat
is about four pounds, but eight to ten
pounds is frequently obtained from
high grade goats. The goats are not
only valuable for their fleece, but in
clearing off land, as they subsist large
ly on brush and weeds.
I'm the ice age the thickness of the
ice which covered northeastern Penn
sylvania mas been supposed to be great
enough to rise twenty-five hundred
feet above the sea level Until a short
time ago no signs of glacial action had
been discovered at a loftier elevation
than this, but Mr.. John C. Bravner has
explored Elk Mountain, which is be-
lieved to be the highest point in north
ern Pennsylvania, and there he found
scratches made by the ice at an alti-
tude of about twenty-seven hundred
feet 1t is evident, therefore, that the
ice sheet which over spead this region
during the glacial epoch must have
been thicker than geologists have hith
erto thought.