The Arkansaw traveler., 1889-01-19

October Is.
A Norwegian engineer locates leaks In q ship,
while In dry dock, by filling the vessel with smoke
The leaks are soon shown by an escape Of smoke,
the process requiring only thirty or forty minutes
The Oldest rosebush, with an authenticated rec
ord, Is probably that upon the old church at Hell
dersheim, Germany. 1t has grown to the thick
meas OF mans body, and the old writings state
that trelis was built for II eight hundred years
ago.
Musical tones may be produced from sand, con-
cludes Mr.. G. Carus Wilson, F. G. s., IL the grains
are rounded, polished and free from fine fragments;
II they have sufficient play to enable them to slide
one against the other; IL they perfectly clean
and IL they possess a certain uniformity and range
Of size.
The skin and digestion of miners are made deli
cate by lack Of sunlight, but Mr.. s. G.. Nasmyth
nnds that the air Of coal mines compares favorably
in chemical composition with that of schools and
workshops. The temperature Ia much better
even luxurious-the highest in an English mine
during three months being 55 degrees F., and the
lowest 81 degrees.
An official report gives the number of British
boiler explosions for the year ending with last
June as sixty-o with loss of thirty -one lives
More than half of the explosions were due to the
use OF WORKOUT or damaged boilers, seventeen to
defective designs and fittings or undue working
pressure, seven TO ignorance neglect OF attend
ants and six to miscellaneous causes.
Society and South Sea Islands has for its basis the
kava root (piper methysticum) The root Is
chewed by women and girls employed for that
purpose, and, when we'll masticated and mixed
with saliva, is elected into bowls mixed with coca
juice and left to ferment The drink Is used as
wine in many places, and Is in great demand among
the natives and some whites.
A GERMAN ExrosIrIoN.-The sum of 1000, 900
marks has been raised by the Export society of
Germany for floating exhibition palace in the
form OF steel ship 564 feet long, with four engines
and four screws 1t is expected that this vessel
will start from Hamburg its first voyage in
1890. II the anticipated profit of 100000 marks
annually Is realized, floating exhibitions will be
likely to become common during the next few
years.
WORLD ENGLIsH.-The great advantage claimed
by DIR. A. Melville Bell for English as the univer-
sal language, is the simplicity of its grammar,
which makes English immeasurably superior to
every form of artificial language well as to other
national tongues. The various moods and lenses
declensions. and conjugations, which burden other
grammars have practically no existence for US. Dr.
Bell advocates further simplifcation, however
by removing grammatical notwithstanding
"chlds instead of children" "gooder" instead of
better, etc,-adopting more orderly spelling, and
improving the alphabet so as to give letter for
each sound
WORK or THE HERMIT PEoPLE.-An interesting
collection of the productions of the Coreans has
been brought to Engl md, and Is now in the Kew
museum. Like the Japanese, these little known
people make extensive use, in their few indus
tries, of paper which is made from the bark of the
paper mulberry. This collection includes various
white cream colored papers for drawing, writ
ing, wrapping, etc, with fans and hand Of
paper and bamboo, oiled paper tobacco pouches
and hat coverings, paper kites with bamboo
frames, blinds of bamboo split into thread like
strips and fine clothing-such undershirts and
cufs-of split rattans. Very fine work is dis
Dlayed in some of the articles.
DISEASE GERMS MUST Go-Recent developments
in bacteriology, according to DIR. Austin Flint,
give increasing promise of results of the greatest
Importance to the whole human race. A revolu-
ton in the science and practice of medicine is being
slowly but surely wrought and better scquaint-
In, ako