The Red Cloud chief., 1885-11-06


Waste Places OF the World
Tho Russian explorer Prcjcvalsky
said. after his recent journey to North.
ern Thibet. that an enormous amount
Of animal life was supported by tho
ecaDty heritage growing on these
bleak half-sterile plains that form tho
highest plateau in the world. some 49,
900 feet above the sea. lie said tho
wild yaks there mus: number millions,
and that a full-grown yak weighs from
LOO To 1900 pounds. Natures chem
ktry evolves these great masses OF flesh
from tho poor herbage OF a region 80
lofty that its lakes are frozen over until
nearly June. though they are 600 miles
nearer the equator than we are.
Explorers tell US that not only does
animal life abound. but that man can
live 10 sOmo Of the most desolatc parts
of the globe. 1t Is q mistake to sup
pose that tho Sahara Desert is merely =
sandy waste. Much of it lacks not 30
much cultivable land as industrious
hands to make tho vast expanse OF
withered cases blossom again. The
Mussclman sect known as the SenOus-
lans has for years boon digging wells.
irrigating tho land, and turning many
hundreds VI barren acres into gardens.
Twenty-four years ago It planted its
headquarters in the desert neal the
western border Of Egypt, built reser-
vOirs, began plantations. ercc,ed con-
vents, and now q population Of 5000
people live ut Jara5ub. where tho soil
has been restored to fertility by theiI
iabors. There are large areas in the
Sahara that need only rain or irrigation
to cover them with vcrdure. Through
these regions pass the caravan routes.
along which the camcls engaged in
She Saharan commence bear their bur-
dens.
Mr.. Anderson. the civil engineer, who
last year completed sixteen years of ex.
plora;ion in South Africa. between the
Orange and the ZambeSi rivers. saye
that the rain that falls for a few weeks
every year in the great region known rs
the kalahara desert covers tho black
cned. yeriure!css plain with splendid
vegetation. Game is abundant there.
especially oons. lcopards and ostriches.
and be has counted in this desert TWEEN.
ty-two lions in q troop, and has seen
200 Ostrichcs in one flock. Beasts and
birds find sus!cnance IN this region
where only 4 few bushmen hunters live.
Far northeast of them on the scmi-arid
Etcppcs Of Korictan and Darfar mil
liens of sheep and camelS exist on the
scanty pasturagc Of that desert region.
The earliest Arctic explorers found in
the litus S~pitzbergen Archipelago
where. It is believed. no human being
had e.cr li~ved-herds Of reindeer up
turning the snow with their hoofs and
moses TO got at the lichens on which
they fed. Many reindeer live as far
north as Iittleton Island. and several
score Of them were killed BY the Hayes
and Polaris expeditions. Musk oxen or
their traces have been found along the
shores of the great frozen sea as fax
north as explorers have attained. Lock.
wood. far north Of tho supposed limits
of animal life, found traces Of this wOn-
derfui quadrupcd. which grows fat ON
the tender shoots of tho Arctic willow,
and plows up the snow for moss aud
licheuS.
Of ali parts Of tho earth the Antarc-
tic regions alone arc comparatively
destitute Of life. Few species of living
things in the vegetable or animal king.
dom can endure the riSor Of the sOu:S
polar region. No terrestrial q~uadruped
inhabits the land within the Antarctic
circle, aud whales and seals are the
ONLY mammals that enter its area. Sum.
mer in the Arctic regions. with its abuu-
Lant life on land and in the air and sea,
presents an animated aud cheerful
scene compared with the utter desolsr
ton that reigns perpetually in AntarO'
SIC WsterS.-.hcU lUrE Sun.
A yOuuC woman RESIDENT Oh Oassvs,
n. H.. is now rapidly recovering from
Q singular illness. Over . year ago she
had several teeth extracted by . dentist
while under the influence Of chlorofOrm.
and Immediately afterward she was
seized with = bad cough and gradually
wasted aud took her bed. Is it was sup
posed, in consumption. Several physi-
clans examined her case. one Of whom
attributed her illness r. "a ulcer in tho
throat and gave her . remedy. The
medicine resulted in Q v paroxysm
Of coughing, during which she threw
out y tooth that had lodged in her
throat while she was ~chiorcfOrmed aud
remained. nearly costly her her lda
A lady who has been using YOU
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weeks. fluids herself greatly improved
and thinks it is a most valuable rene
DIV for rheumatism. She says YOU are
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