The Arkansaw traveler., 1889-10-26
ComrnED FoR Rmn AmKAmnAw TnAvmmm.
 SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY.

The worlds medical periodicals number about 2ee of .hieh no lss than i7l ars publiahsd in ths
 The Cape Peninsula, South Africa, in an srsa of two hundred square milez, contains I7b0 specisn of plants, of which i03 arc orchids.
 Lisutsnsnt Finley finds that there were ixl tornadoes In Illinois in the Ay four years snding with lsss The month Of grsetsst frequency w.s May, 10 month being free from tho storms.
 A race between bees and pigeons lately took place In Westphalia- The bees were maxksd by rolling in -four, and the first reached home ovsr the distance of three -a-hAk miles twsnty-nvs ssoond, bsfore the frt pigeon, thrss ohsr bsss irving before the second pigeon
 Tho work of connecting by canal the two ersat arteries of navigation in western Siberia has so r progressed that boat ffty-six feet lonx and four- teen feet wide taking half feet of wnter has been lately drawn from the Obi into tho Yeuisf with . load of forty tons of -four. The two rivers are i've hundred and thirty miles apart.
 FROZEN Mnx.-Ths agricultural society of France has been shown by H. 6uerin that fresh milk may be easily transported to the most distant places In frozsn state the reshness beinr refained for an indefinite period. When thawed, though days and weeks after freezing, the milk e aid Co of butter and chesse, and in all other respects.
 The submarine torpedo boat of Lieut.. Isaac Peral,
 launched In Spain, some weeks ago. is about seventy feet long and nine feet wide, with . displacsmsnt of eighty tons Its two screws arc driven by powerful electric accumulators to bs charged from station on shore, and it is supposed to b able to provide respirable air sufficient to sus- tain its crew of seven men forty yeight hours under water.
 Since Humboldt witnessed hsh thrown from tho volcano Cotopaxi, In 1908, it hes been found that the phenomenon is repeated from time to time dur canoes of the Andes The ash are somstimss elected
 in vast quantities. All belong to one species, which exists in some of tho lakes tho aides Of tho moun- tains.
 THE GERMS or CoNsUHPTIoN.-A member Of tho London Archaeological society states that tho bacillus of tuberculosis, or consumption, may enter the body by ipoculAtion through . cut or wound by means of the genito-urinary mucous membrane by the product of conception, and by direct hereditary transmision; by the mucous membrane of the respiratory tract and by tho air cells of the lunga The danger from swallowing the germs with the food makes it vitally importanf to avoid milk from tuberculous cows, and possibly the hesh of tuberculous cattle fowls and other ani mala
 than six distinct species of leprosy known vjx Lepra Aosicc (predominAnt in scripture); Lepre AIph0Sdes characterized by minute and very white scales); Lepyu vsloavis (which very rarely hsalO Leprc ss6fksco; and ElepAantiasis. The most tubercles on the fsos and sxtrsmtss oosrssnss snd thickness of tho skin and illumination of its ssns- biity, swellings, hoarssnen, lo@ of voice, hlIIng oil and ooarsene9 of the hair and change Co whifo or yellow, scales, general slow deuaying of ths body, diappeaanos of tho nails and testh and gsn- eral dcpression. The chief haunts of leproey axo Palestine, Iceland and Scandinavia, the Faroe iSlss and the Indies. Science knows very httls of tho terrible disease. Kschylus supposed its canse 0 be . parasitic hchen, some have attributed it to self propagating animalcule, and others regard it as an exaggerated type Of akin diseasa IL is oer- tafnly hereditary, but its oontagioume@ is now questioned.