The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-12-29

A school of forestry has been opened at Akhalt-
xix, In the Caucasian provinces to instruct officials
charged with checking the destruction of Russian
forests.
BY spraying the region Of the external ear with
ether, Drs- HeDoque and Fridel of Paris, render
the ntal insensbe, and extract teeth with
out pain or general anasthesia.
| A prize of about $4,000 has been offered by the
committee Of the Caspian fisheries, In Russia, for
the discovery of means for protecting hsh against
Infection, and for treating persons suffering from
the of poisonous fish. Investigators have until
January, 1899 to send In their essays.
SUGAR OR SALr.-Experiments made for the
French minister OF agriculture indicate that sugar
IL better preventative Of meat than salt. II Is
more expensive, but the powdered sugar forms
coating retaining the juices Of the meat without
loss, while the nutritive qualities of the meat
considerably lesseDed by the salt.
THE FALL on THE UNFITTEsT.-Civilized man IL
creating of determination, and not only the
great qusdrupeds and some human species, but
even harmless birds must go. No less than i've
hundred birds, belonging to twenty five species,
have been lured to destruction In q single night by
the torch of the Statue of Liberty in New York
harbor. Some places already report scarcity of
birds and under the influence of augmentDg adver-
stiles many species may soon disappear altogether.
| THE GREENLAND EXPEDITION DIR. hansen, the
Danish ex plorer, and five companions, have
ceeded In their attempt to Greenland, but the
scientific results OF the trip cannot yet be told The
party left their vessel IN latitude 55 deg. on July
nth, with the east coast In sight, but were twelve
days reaching land the pack They crossed
the narrow part of Greenland far south of Nor
denskjold's attempted route, and reached Godthaab
October 4th where, being too late for the last ship,
they will remain until spring.
THE DEEPEST DEPTHS "A sounding of 1855
fathoms was obtained off the northeast coast of
Japan, by the United States steamship, "Tusca-
rora 4 475 fathOms south Of the Lsdrone Islands,
| by the challenger" and SOL fathoms, north OF
Porto Rico, by the United States ship "Bake"
The British ship "Egeria" now reports two sound
| ings OF $50 fathoms and 1926 fathoms respect
lively, to the south of the Friendly Isands-these
depths being more than 900 fathoms greater than
any previously known in the southern hemi- sphere.
BREATH MEAsURE.-The pneograph Is q novel
instrument devised by DIR. Mortimer Granville, an
English physician. 1t consists of delicately sus-
pended and counterpoised halt disc, with an
arrangement for moving smoked paper under q
tracing needle. When held over the mouth, the
half disc rises and falls with the breath. The
needle is thus made to trace a wavy line on the
moving paper, and the character of this line indi-
Gates the force continuity and duration Of the exp
ration. The tracings in diverse conditions OF the
lungs show very marked and apparently significant
differences.
| Lo AS WoOD- WoRKER.-Carpentry was the
trade of the American observation-disclosures and
mound builders. Mr. III. +. Mcleod, of the Smith
sonian Institution states that the tentpoes of the
| Sioux Indians even now show pretty specimens OF
work and the Moqui Indians, since long before the
landing of Columbus, have known how to mortise
timber, to make ladders, and to swing doors on
hinges from the top. The chisel they push rather
than hammer, and they work the board up and
down 9 fixed saw, but the results are creditable.
The Aztecs made good glass, which they used for
their best cutting blades, swords, daggers spears,
saws, chisels and axes. They sharpened these by
cleaving off the dull edges
| SAFE ExPLosIvE-Bellite, the new Swedish
explosive. is q compound of nitrate of ammonium,
with d or tri nitro benzole in the proportions Of
about five of the former to of the latter. It Ii
made In the form of loose yellowish powder, or In
compressed cartridges. Its inventor claims that 1t
is more powerful than gun-cotton or dynamite;
cannot be exnloded by ahock. nressure lightning