Arizona silver belt., 1895-11-02
THE ARIZONA SILVER BET
Saturday. November 2, lao5,
SCIENCE ANp INpusrRY:


 "A report showing tho average wares of women servants in London is interesting to American houselSeepcrs. Tho keneral homework girl in London gets s6 90 month a cook about 50, q nurse sS and laundress SS.25,
 pr Chapman shows that the bobo- links which nest west of tho Rocky mountains do not migrate southwark with the birds of that region, but re- trace their steps and leave the United States by way of Florida, thus furnish ing evidence of the gradual extension of range westward and of the stability of the routes of migration.
 -Philadelphia's harbor is to be im- proved by the city of Philadelphia by the removal of certain rocks and other obstructions in the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers. The work will be done under the direction of the di- rector of public works, and two hum dred and twenty-five thousand dollars is available for this purpose
 That plant appreciated by the cultivator in one country is but 8 weed in another is exenpliHed by the sem sitive plant In our gardens few arc more welcome. In India it is such o pest that 1t is regarded with as much disgust as the Canada thistle, horse nettie, or other notorious plants arc by the American cultivator It is con sidered one of the vilest weeds in India.
 At the Victoria institute, London, it was stated that all naturalists now admit that evolution as working hypothesis has, as yet proved iasufll- cient to account for mans place in na- ture. As regards the question of the missing link between man and the ape, it has been scientifically demon st.ated that in no case had a so-called missing link proved to be other than a human being, with a lesser developed brain than usual.
 The capsicum plant, from which the different varieties of pepper are produced, is indigenous to the tropical regions of Europe, Asia, Africa and America. It grows wild almost as we'll as under cultivation in all these eoun- tries, and in each is used by the na- lives as a seasoning for food It's cx- tensive employment has suggested to medical theorists the thought that it must be considered as a natural tonic for the stomach in tropical countries.
 -Bleaching by peroxide of hydrogen has now become almost universal This substance is simply water with an added atom of oxygen. which extra oxygen mites with and destroys the pigments of vegetabla and animal sub- stances without affecting the dbers in any way or leaving in them any for cign matter. It can be used with any material. Ivory, bone, human hair, wool silk, jute, linen and cotton can all be bleached, and the wool on the sheep or the hair on the human head can be whitencd without in the least affecting is growth or vigor
 Cows milk is almost at tho bottom of the list of the food substances that contain iron. As it is SO important to infant life, Prof Bunge has been led to experiment. Ou animals to see in what proportion iron is present in the sys- tem at different ages He finds that the younger animals contain much lioTe iron than adults; in guinea pig or rabbit one hour old, for instance, there is more than four times as much iron as in the same animals two and a half months old. He infers from this chat a long-continued exclusive mill, diet is not good for babies, but should be supplemented by wheat prepara- tfDDg