The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-04-14
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skin inoculated on whites loses its pigment and becomes white.
 It has iateiy tNcn proven that tr;ssvy Is not only \ powerful stimulant, but has even more valuable properties aS an antiscptic. II operates strongly in destroying cholera germs, Similar qualities are suspected to belong to tea
 In recent tests on forty persons, one part of alicino was tasted In l3.0oo parts of water; of morphine, one in t,00o quinine, one in 16.ooo; Quas- sine. one in 20 900 picrotoxine. one iu l9s s,o00 aloine, one in 2lo,c0o, and strychnine, one in S96,oo0, Twelve tasters detected one part of stryehninc in l,2S0,00o.
 Admiral Cloue, of the Fipnch navy states that less than n half, gallon oi oil an hour seems sufficient to secure the largest ship from being bearded by tho waves. Ii Is strange that the sea- smoothing effect of oil should just be attracting general attention, since It was known in Pliny's time, and Benjamin Franklin tried unsuecess. tully-to bring 1t to notice.
 Of all the deaths from poison In Great Britain, forty per cent are said to be due to opium. This largely arises, in the opinion of Dr. Wyntcr Blythe, from the pernicious habit of using soothing preparations to quiet infants and keep them asleep most of the time. One preparation alone has been calculated to be tho undoubtcd cause of death of 100000 children every year.
 The possibility of conveying fish alive during n months trip was dem- onstratcd near the close of last year. when specimens of several varieties were taken from Paris to stock tho waters of Chilli. There was consider able loss of salmon, gudgeons, lotes and barbs, but the carp, tench, cells, minnows, etc., mostly survived. X low temperature and constant circula- ton of air through tho water were kept up on the trip.
 WOLF. REARED CHILDREN. --- From an old English pamphlet, printed In ls52, an extraordinary record of cases of children said 10 have nurtured by wolves has been rcpublished recently. In one instance, In 1877, boy was seen in India with the three whelps ot n female wolf, and was captured with some difficulty. He ran on all fours, as rapidly as the whcips, nte rnw meHt from the ground like a dog, rejected cooked meat with disgust, summed human beings, expressed his wants by n few signs, and seemed to care for nothing but eating. He died in 1880
 THE GREATEST CATARACfs.-Fr From the latest information, it appears that the three Krimbs Falls, In the Upper Prinzgau, with total height oi lis feet, constitute the highest known waterfall. Next In height come three Scandinavian falls, of 9s4, s53 and soi feet respectivcly and these are fol- lowed by about haif dozen fniis ranging from 59I feet down to 400. Taking width into consideration, the Victoria fails, of the Zambezi, 35i feet high and s,200 feet wide, arc the most imposing, making the Niagara Falls, TT feet high and ,9Gs feet wide, seem quite insignificant in size.
 INTELLECTUAL INFLUENCE or THE NosE.-AprOsexie is the name Dr. Guye, of Amsterdam, chooses for in- attentivencss, and he quite singulnrly finds that the nose is cause of it. A dull boy became quick to learn after certain tumors had been taken from the nose; and man who had been troubled with vertigo and buzzing in the ears for twelve years, found mental labor easy after like opera ton. In third case A Tedical stu. dent was similarly relieved. Dr Guye mpposes that these nasal troubles affect the brain by preventing the ccre- bral lymph from circulating freely.
 A DREAM OF ISYisirY.--"lf we could double the space penetrating power Of our telescopes, spccuiates Proctor, "we should probably much more than double, we should increase manifold, the number of stars~t that k of suns--w which would be brought within our ken. Not thousands of millions, but probably millions of millions, of suns exist within the limits of the sidereAl system. Rather T ought tc say-thsy exist within the limits of our sidereai system, for doubtless this system Ia no more 10 bc regarded as single within the universe than our solar system Is unique within the star depths. Every star tells us oi sun, and probably Of solar sys. tenn, In such sort that we must recog- nIze thousands of millions Of solar systems in the galaxy. May VIC not fairly assume, then, that in like man. ner our sidereAl system Is repeated millions and millions of times within some system of $ higher orderI That system may be in turn repeated many r-aftltAna nR AfSuAa x9ffkfs d uussn.w. ..F