The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-01-26
ICs~ssis.i fsr TAs .trksssaw yrsswAsv. l SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY.

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 made icr salieylic ac,d as harmless bod prese,ver has led French eommis- s.on ,o declare l,s gcncral and frequent use ,o be unsafe.
 The experiments oi Hen [ Wo,tmann show that the SicmS ot growing plants may become ben, from then original shape by the influence ei heat applied at one side. the inclination being sometimes toward the source of heat. and sometimes away tTom Il.
 Mons, Iaiiailhac has eiVen the Trench Academy ot Sciences desCupt,on of sot"e old s,ni mlneS ncat Mut-de Rarres, ANe>ren, winch weld evidence ei working by miners oi the stone age, This is men toned a> ihe h,st discovery oi prehistoric mines m Trance.
 According ,e itei Leomis. oi Vale college, tho average diamete, oi violent storms ln the tfnlted S,ate> ,S i.SST miles. and on the Atlantic Ocean soss miles. Severe storms n the ,n,etiot oi Europe have nearly the same geographical cx- lent A those winch occur an the Atlantic. X Bombay physician. N. l.. Baiious. cntls pointed out that the use ot cer- tam kinds ot hsh ,n some seasons oi the iea secmcd to rla, part ,n the ptoduo- ton oi oheleta. He has since discovered Tn the hiced oi one these hsh bacterial organisms resembling those found by llI koch ,n the ,n,es,ines oi cholera pa ucn,s ,n Egypt
 Su samuel N haket. ihe African ea. plotet. s'a,ts ,hs, the ,amcl will cross the dr,ei,s w,h d load et loo pounds at the rate oi ,hft,y miles day. m the burning hta, ot summer. and require water onl, every thttd oi fourth day. In the cooler months the animal will work aad II eta8tng on green iohsge withaa, labor will drink only once fortnight
 The dtseovety at white sparrow at 'ass,nsham has htough, ,e notice the ee, utteuee oi white btrds in other parts al Great matain NJ, Rowland Ward, a mcmtel ei the ondon foologi, al so, lety, mentions that Il pat oi pure whi,e house martens have been n his possrSs,nn iot a considerable tune, and assrrt> that al- , htno plUmage !, less rare among com mon b,'ds ihan .s generally snpposed
 lle.uiesl s9euoe has furnished novelty ior ladicN Tn the form of \ series n; luminous jewels which has been pto- du,ed by Mons ,,aston 1rouvc. of Fans. These ornaments consists ai glass col aIcd and cut to initiate rnbles, dianonds, ct anal each mounted n su envelope containing a tiny m, andessent lamp. winch h fed tom small battery carried about the pessan The ltgh, gisca the glass through which Il shines the brilliant appearance ot the stone itnttated
 Mi S. k tan-a,rinl has found that but te,diea may use ,heit wings eighteen days alter brng hehcaded. erI, ke,s may leap an the ,Au,ecn,h day aitc, then heads have been ,u, af. and s,gps oi life may silll be gwen by the body oi the pirying mantllla on the fourteenth day after dc spilauon. hia esperimentei haa made still moie sinking observations which tend to prove that the head in insect, has much less to do ~i,l guiding the motions nt the body than the head in uamiuais
 hlsds have wonderful apeutes |, has been calculated that a tedhfeast requires dally an amour, oi food equal to an earth worm fourteen fec, long Assum- ing sausag~ nine inches in 1T, uuieT- cn,e io be a faii equivalent iof man of esI,h~oim ioi thr bud, Prof Wood fnds that a nan would have to consume aisty. seven feet of sat h sausage tn every twen- ] ty foui hours tn oidr, tp eat as fnu, h tn proportion io has bulk as the tedbt~aa Iioi Wood offers thia as an illnstration oi the amour, of work which s done by insect eating buds.
 Twenty comets which have been .i ..t. d. 4. p~&tei to be essentially alike in ,hrm. al composition, while ~ao h come, IS eont,nu- all, vstying ln temperature. density and the amount oi vapa emitted by tts nucleus Hugglus states thst the sub stance of these bodies undoubtedly con. ,a,ns eArbon. hydrogen and nitrogen, and probably oxygen Aeteof,es afe rvi- deniiy ot ,hs same nature as comets, and, while onaia,ing chiefly of non and other soi,ds. can often be made to give up seSefsi times their volume of gas~s The ldea tha, the Ugh, of comets and the phenomena oi ihr,r ,a.is are produced by electricity ,s though, to be gaining in favor among students of these subjects. From 4 report on American preciou, stones, hy MT Geo. ! kunf. ,t appears iha, some eighty eight dHefcn, minerals occur m the tinted 9,a,es which have been used AZ gems, and ,~elye of these are found oniy in the ntted States, Sys. ieinAits nining for gems n earned on st only i~o pIa' es in thts country. vii n, f.rls. Name. ia'ued for i's t0armslines, ef shlrh probably more than iSoooo Nofth haze been obtained and si Stony ioui = C. which has thus far yielded some 500 worth of ,outnalinr and hldasnlte In other sses ~bere gems are found they are either ne, ~iih are.- dentAlly, ni asfaf m connection with other materials that are being nined. of IT. small seins ~hirh are only otcasion- ally to be alss oyered
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