Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-06-13
FOREIGN GOSSIP

Mexico produces anything that can be raised in any other country. So varied is the climate that in the same state can be raised any product of the tropics and of the polar regions. Cot ton, wheat, rye, silver silk, eoeoanuts, bananas, rice, cocoa. vanilla, haywood, mahogany, hides and wine are the prin- eipal products
 The appointment of minister of physical education was seriously sug- gested at meeting Exeter hall. Lon don. recently. The marquis of Car marthen, NJ. F., said at the meeting that he considered gymnasiums should receive substantial aid from the state the proper physical culture of the people being matter of greatest na- tional importance.
 The marriage rate in England and Wales during the last quarter of last year was lower than i'll any previous like period There were f.s18 mar riages, which was in the annual pro portion of l6.3 persons per 1000 of pop ulation. The mean rate for the eorre- spending quarter in the preceding ten years was 17.3. It is also noted that the average of the last ten years is far below that of any preceding decennium
 pr. Schneider writes to the French Journal de fAgriculture that he has successfully employed bisulfid of car bon for the purpose of clearing hem roosts of vermin. He ties few small. 1 uncorlxed bottles of the inseeticide beneath the perches, and yapor arising from them does the rest. This lasts about twelve days, when the bisultid is evaporated. If there is any recurrence of the verlnin on parts of the perches not thoroughly fumigated by the vapor, the operation is repeated. Great care must be used not to bring 8 flame in contact with the vapor, as it is highly ipfiammahle and explosive.
 A German pathological journal re- cords recent experiment. of Doctors l Sawtschenko and Sobolotny which seems to border on the heroic. They vaccinated themselves with prepara' ton made from cultures of the cholera bacillus, and afteward swallowed viru' lent cholera germs with entire inn 1 punity. Then, with serum from theiE own blood they inoculated guinea pigs, and found that those animals could be protected against cholera. Usually it is the guinea pig who has first tC 1 face the chances of life or death in ex periments of that kind, but in this case the doctors were so sure they were right that they shouldered the risk l themselves.
 The Swiss government has, for the last twenty years, caused observations to be made through it's forestry sta tions on the temperature of the air, O the trees aAd the soil in the forests These observations show that the tenn perature in the forests is always below the temperature outside. The temper ature also varies according to the tree composing the forests A beech fores is always cooler than forest of lareh As to the trunks of the trees, they ar, always colder than the surroundi ns air Regarding the temperature of tn l soil, 1t is found that i-, the forest tn temperature is invariably below thu of the air. Out the forest the soil is al ways warmer than the air in summe and cclder in winter.
 By Merest Chance.
 It was narrow escape,
 The strong man shuddered and wipe the beads of precipitation from his brow
 ssGood heavens.T he said; 'anothe moment and then
 | It was several moments before he rs l covered sufficiently to resume his tasl For once again he. had come withi an ace of dipping the mucilage brus in the ink-Iruth.