The Arkansaw traveler. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1882-1???, 1889-05-18

Electricity Ii now applied to tanning, and IL In
said to produce leather from the raw hide I'm the
short period Of four days
Among the latest announcements of international
CONGRESSES at Paris are one Of botany during the
second half Of August, and one Of mines and met
Allurgy early In September.
Dairy schools, ct q cost not xCeeding e55 900
year. have increased Denmark's butter EXPORT I'm
twenty years from s2,1OO, 900 Of poor quality to
slS,OOO,COO OF excellent quality annually.
To the perfumes OF flowers NJ Ungerer ascribes
the power Of protecting against and even arrest
ing consumption. In the perfume-d istilling town
OF La erase lung troubles are but little known.
Some quartz crystals included In an exhibit Of
American jewel minerals prepared for the Paris
exhibition by Tiffany Il Co., are curious account
Of their minute size and perfection, there being
800 to the ounce.
A botanist and O chemist of Berlin Profs r.
Hertig and X. Weber, have given two years to an
investigation of the wood of the beech cutting MP
In the course of their work more than 100 trees of
all ages. An account Of the results forms Q large
book of 23S pages.
The children of women addicted TO the morphine
habit are stated by Erlenmeyer to be practically
morphine eaters from birth. without morphine
during the first few days of lfe the violent symp-
toms are manifested which follow the sudden with
drawal of the drug from adult opium eaters and
the result to the weak child Is likely to be fatal.
OXYGEN IN INDUsrRIEs.-Oxygen Is now prepared
In LONDON at cost OF not more than S1.Io per
thousand cubic feet, and 1t bids fair to come into
extensive use for various purposes, some of which
were lately mentioned 10 the Society of Chemical
Industry by DIR. T. l.. Thorne. 1t Ia almost always
the true agent in bleaching operations and stream
Of the gas applied to the bleaching Of paper pulp
has effected saving Of thirty per cent. 1t can be
used in the publication of Illuminating gas and
when applied to the maturing of spirits mellows
them in ten days as If they had been kept for
eral years.
PAPER MATERIALs.-A writer on "the age of
pulp" upon which we have entered, declares that
paper makers not likely to suffer lack of raw
material. Few fbrous substances-such as esparto
grass, straw and wood-have as yet practically
taken the place once occupied exclusively by rags
but pulp has been successfully obtained from East
Indian ramic, pineapple fbres bamboo, bagape
lthe refuse from sugar canes), peat braken COM
mon fern, flags rushes, seaweed, tan and hop stalks
Paper has been made In Scotland from hollyhock
stems; in Ireland from the mallow, red clover, hop
vine, and yellow water iris; in Demarars from the
plantain and In France from leaves.
CLIMATIC ZoxEs.-Heights under the equator,
from the to 16 200 feet,-the level OF perpetual
SNOWFLAKE been divided by Meyen into eight
zones regions. That of palms and bananas (nam-
ing the zones from the Characteristic pants) begins
at sea level tree-ferns and frs at 1920 feet myr-
ties and lAures 1850 feet evergreen dcoty ldonous
trees ,120 feet pines, 140 feet rhododendrons,
Il, $50 feet Alpine plants, 14,170 feet. The
responding zones in latitude ut sea level-setting
aside variations from special currents-are: equa-
torial, latitude OILS degrees tropical, 1928; sub
tropical, 1854; warm temperate, 34-45; cold
temperate, 1888; sub-arctic, $3.50; arctic, 667S;
polar, 1888.
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