The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-05-19
Compiled for The ArkGnsac Trareler. SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY

t<AoeO AAnS OOOu HI Ou8 C8So 2W a result of the substitution of sacchak rim for sugar.
 Instantaneous photography by th magnesium flash has been applied t a study of the pupil of the eye as rests in total darkness.
 Two French physicists, Violle ad Vautier, have established beyoH doubt that the velocity of sound ak minishes with it's intensity, but ifun> affected by it's pitch.
 Europe now has twenty-two cre- matories, ten of them added within the past year, while no less than 600 bodies have been burned in Germany and 800 in Italy The United States has seven crematories, with six build- ing. Thus it seems that p1 eiudice against cremation is fast abatino. AN.N .
 A magnificent engineering work oA the fifth century, which had been par tially destroyed, has been restored " Ceylon. It is an irrigating reservd covering an area of 4,425 acres. about seven square miles, from whSS water Is taken to smaller distribyHe tanks more than fifty miles awa..
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 Late observerof pa aNorS "A tNa temperature of & etc. re fouppSeSip' tric currents varies w Mss.re COIN V pressures surroundhg it. A which remained dul at ordinary a.- mospheric pressure became incan- descent in a moderate vacuum, while, on the other hand, current wnlch would fuse wire at ordinary pressure will scarcely redden it if the pressure is sufficiently increased.
 One of the three finest collections of butterflies in the world-:He two others belonging to the British Mu- scum and a Paris institution-has been made by MT. Berthold Neumo- egen, of the New York Stock Ex- change. It contains 100000 speci- mems, and has cost twenty years in time and $35,000 in money. Living stone, Stanley, Schwatka and other explorers have contributed to it.
 SNow-CAUGHT BIRDs.-A og. .~:ons danger to birds has been observed by a Belgian game-keeper. Warming the feet in the nearest body of open water during very cold weather, the tail- feathers become wet, and, dragging over the snow, soon form balls g large as to seriously impede progres Partridges are thus made ready tims to stronger birds. It is probe however, that this singular loadiy birds is not of frequent occurren
 THE WORLDS QUININE.-Theo production of quinine is estini is be about 4,500,000 ounces. ries chiefly furnished by eighteeland, One iN Holland, two in A'n two in Itaiy, three in France, foul the United States,an six in Germany. Quinine is also supplied by the gov ernment plantations in India and ex- periments in producing it in the vi- cinity of Tifis, in the Caucasus, have been so successful that the Russisr government is arranging for the cul- tivation of cinchona on an immense scale.
 BEST VIEWS OF MARs.-When Mars and the sun occupy opposite places in the heavens our near planetary neigh bor is seen at its best. This occurs once in 7SO days, but, on account of the ellipticity of the orbits of the earth and Mars, the two planets come nearest together only once in fifteen years. Mars was in opposition in April of this year; it viii make it's closest approach in 1892, when it will be only 35,000,000 million miles away. The memorable discovery of the two tiny moons was made during the opposition of 1877.
 COOKING AND DIGEsTfBILITY.-F ' periments by Dr. N. Butiagin. Petersburg medical student, that the saliva is less active in ing starch foods in invalids ar persons than in the healthy, compensation for this may
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