Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1883-12-13
sCINTILLaTIONs OF SCIENCE.
Curiosities and Discoveries In the World
of Progress.


and considers it likely to be of great
use in diseases due to microbia.
Lieutenant Massenat, who lately
finished n scientific mission in Bo-
grara, discovered a Roman city in the
southern part of Djerba. The circuit
of the ruins is stated to be about three
kilometers.
A canoe, partly imbedded under the
River Arun, has been found in the
Parish of Pulborough, Sussex, Eng
land. 1t is fifteen feet long by four
feet broad, and had been cut out of a
single massive oak tree in the stone
age.
The Nature reports an extraordinary
case of subsidence near Bona. Naiba,
an isolated mountain, more than $500
feet high, is slowly sinking into the
bosom of the earth. A deep gulf has
been made all around the engulfed
mass.
Speaking about bearings and friction,
the Scientific American says: ''In all
cases the journal should give space
enough for film of oil, especially for
high speeds, under which it may become
heated and slightly expanded. Many
journals and boxes are injured by bind
ing, the consequence OF a too finical
fit"
very successful endless chain tow
ing system has been tried on that most
difficult Of navigable rivers, the Rhone,
and described by M. Dupuy de Lone
before the Academy of Sciences, Paris.
Two endless lateral chains are en-
ployed, worked with independent ma
chinery by n single hand, serving at the
same time to direct the course of the
vessel.
ss Herr Krupp's great establishment at
Essen has its own water and gas works.
1t contains $4,000 gas burners in addi-
ton to the electric lamps. II has its
own chemical laboratory, Photographic
and photographic establishments and
printing and binding shops. There are
about fifty miles of graph wires and
thirty-fve stations belonging to the
works.
Fishes nov living in the Suez Canal
have formed the subject of paper by
DR.. G.. Keller. Up to the beginning of
the present year eleven species from
the Mediterranean have penetrated the
canal rs far rs Suez. The Red Sea, on
the other hand, gave no fewer than
twenty-five species, which, however,
have only for the most part scarcely
reached half way toward the northern
entrance.
Marriage, as practlced among the
negroes of Sehegambia, has been writ
ten upon in very entertaining way by
NJ. Berengcr Feraud. As in other paris
of Africa, the parental tie IS Slight,
divorce is a matter of everyday occur
once; women are to all intentS and
purposes slaves, and the marriages are
aLtenueu win elaborate cermOnlaIs,
simply as pretexts for amusements and
intemperance.
1t is said that Hamburg manufac-
turer, cOnYorsing with his store-room
manager by telephone, received reply
which annoyed him, and replied in an
insulting manner. The manager pre-
tended not to have heard the remark
and asked to have it repeated, at the
same time inducing colleague to take
his place and receive the second edition.
In this manner he secured a witness
and is now proceeding against his EN-
ployer for libel.
Nj. Vieusse, principal medical officer
of the medical hospital ut Or0n, states
that excessive sweating at the feet
under whatever form it appears, can bt
quickly cured by carefully conducted
friction with the subnitrate OF bismuth
and even in the few cases where this
suppresses the abundant sweating only
temporarily it still removes the severe
pain and the fedity which often accom-
pany the secretion. DR.. Vieusse ha
nnuor fnnnh any Ill CONSEQUENCES IL