The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1892-06-04

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ming the street cars in Leavenworth, Kan.
Rain making experiments. conductea,
In India, have resulted in complete
failure.
The signal officer at Cape May, N. j..
reports the discovery OF 4 new fish re-
sembling the sea trout.
Platinum has been discovered in the
Southern Hills, twenty five miles south
west Of Rapid City, South Dakota.
The bark of the Australian Mimosa \,
now used as tannin for hides to make
morocco leather, as it gives d slightly
reddish tint.
The redeyelopment Of lost limbs is de-
clared by an English naturalist to be not
unusual among insects, in which it may
take place either during the larvel or
pupal stage.
1t is said that in all the forests Of the
earth there are no two leaves exactly the
same. 1t is also said that amid all peo-
Piles OF the earth there are no two faces
precisely alike.
+ Wood glucose bread is used in Ger
many as feed for cattle. The cellulosei is
transformed into grape su Jar, and added
to it is about forty per cent. Of meal Of
wheat, oats, or rye.
A specimen Of capped petrol, bird
supposed to be an extinct or at least
lost species, was found recently in Eng
land. The original home of the petrol is
said to have been the islands of st. Do.
mingo and Gaudaloupe.
The viscid secretion OF gals upon the,
British oak attract small ants, which,
according to DR.. E. Rathay, benefit the
tree by killing great quantities of cater
pillars and other injurious insects. In a.
single day the inhabitants of single
ants nest may destroy more than 100,-
600 insects.
An insect OF South America has its
fangs so like the flower of the orchid that
smaller insects ARE tempted into its jaws.
while certain spiders double themselves
up in the angle between the leaf stalk
and the stem, and SO closely resemble.
flower buds that their unsuspecting prey
approach their destruction.
Wonderful things are related concern
ing the work of photography Of the stars
now in progress at the Cape of Good
Hope, South Africa. One negative, rep
resenting space only one-fourth the
! apparent diameter of the moon, con-
tanned impressions of $4,000 stars, most
of which are invisible to the eye even
when telescope of high power is used.
OF all menagerie stock, the monkey
tribe is the most precarious. The COM
/ parative comfort of a roof tree does not
| compensate for the activity of their
natural life, and, considering that they
| feed on fresh fruits in their primeval
forests, it is not amazing that after a
time an unlimited dietary of hazel nuts
and stale buns is apt to disagree with the,
quadrumanal digestion.
A new evaporating apparatus for sugar
beet juices is attracting attention in Ger
many. The temperature and pressure
are uniform throughout each compart-
ment. Juices are introduced from the.
| top upon tubes which are not hermeti-
cally closed. The concentrated juice:
that falls to the bottom is drawn off by
pumps, and the juices are not allowed to
remain at the bottom of compartment.
Consul General Playfair, in his report.
upon the agriculture of Algeria, gives
some details about the measures. taken
there to preserve the crops from the dep
relations of the locusts. In the De-
partment OF Algiers the amount of labor
with this end in view equalled 20, 939'
days labor of monitors, 234, All days
labor of soldiers, 1,195, 573 days labor
of natives, and 46,96t days labor of
animals, to say nothing of private meas.
ures of protection adopted. The sum
thus expended was nearly 5000, 00Of.,
but with the result of saving nearly the
whole of the crops. .,