The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-06-22
SCIESfIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

Rain making experiments, conducted
in India, have resulted in complete
failure.
The signal officer at Cape May, n. j.,
reports the discovery of new fish re-
,embling 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 Is
now used as tannin for hides to make
morocco leather, as it gives slightly
reddish tint.
The redevelopmeut of lost limbs is de-
,lared by an English naturalist to be not
unusual among insects, in which It may
ake 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
lame. 1t is also said that amid all peo-
plies of the earth there are no two faces
precisely alike.
Wood glucose bread is used in Ger
many as feed for cattle. The celuose is
transformed into grape SUI ar, and added
to it is about forty per cent. of meal of
wheat, oats, or rye.
A specimen of capped petrel, 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 DIR. e. Rathay, benefit the
tree by killing great quantities of cater
pillars and other injurious insects. In
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 uususpectiug 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-lourth the
apparent diameter of the moon, con-
tanned impressions of 900 stars, most
of which are invisible to the eye even
when telescope of high power is use /.
OF all menageric stock, the monkey
tribe is the most precarious. The com
parative comfort of 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 n
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 of by
pumps, aud the juices are not allowed to
remain at the bottom of a compartment.
Consul-General Playfair, 10 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 ~, 939
days labor of monitors, 234, All days
labor of soldiers, 1,195, 573 days labor
of natives, and AZ, ,96l days labor of
animals, to say notaing of private meas
ures of protection adopted Tie sum
thus expended was nearly 5000, 000f.,
but with the result of saving nearly the
whole of the crops.