Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-06-16

who works ON n farm Is as good a man
as the farmer be works for If De is
not treated as such he viii boz discon-
tented. There is mo- social distinction
between the farmer and the farm hand.
III one is artldc'ally set up desirable
men win be- driven out of the busl-
ness. and the most promising opening
for the son OF the farmer himself be
cut on Edward +. Adams In the
Modern Farmer
SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY,
The relics obtained by the French
scientific commission In It's two years
OF excavation on the sites of ancient
Persian cities seem TO belong TO ciVll-
lzqtion much older than that Of Chal-
dea. Under the ancient city of susa
were found tablets bearing pictorial
cunelform characters and these are held
boy NJ. Ja0ues de Morgan the leader on
the expedition to prove conciNslFely
that the Chaldeans were not the lnVen-
tors Of printed language but That 10
dates from a much earlier time. In inc
latest historical city, about 20 feet be-
low the surface, were brick BUILDINGS,
without trace Of metal or writing. Inc
earliest settlement was 30 feet lower,
and contained rude pottery and flint lm-
plements. while In the second OF the
prehistoric settlements were an enor-
nous number OF the flint teeth Of
sicklos indicating an agricultural and
praIn-g growing population. The sickles
were modelled after the lower Jaw OF
the OF. as IN ancient Egypt but all
pottery below the historic strata was
handmade. showing no acquaintance
with the wheel used In predynastic
Egypt
The highest point at which Towering
plants have been found according To- a
recent paper to the London Linnean So
Ciety, was I'm Tibet at 1920 0eet. Nine
clety. was In Tibet at 1900 feet. Nine
higher. The plants We're mostly OF the
order compositae, and deep-rooting
perennial herbs having a rosette OF
leaves close 10 the ground. with the
flowers closely nestled In the center are
characteristic OF these attitudes In the
Bolivian Andes Sir Martin Conway
found two species OF Towering plants
at 1890 feet and 80 above 1900 feet,
the latter belonging to "a genera and q
natural orders
Nearly half a century ago the crum-
blin- OF ordinary white I'm into pow.
derry grey tin was noticed as an effect
Of intensely cold weather The phe-
nomenon has been lately investigated by
r. Cohen and C.. Van Elk, who find
that not only does cold produce this
result but that hot weather tends %
change the grey tin to white tin. the
transition-point being about 10 de-
gree f. Either change becomes per-
ceptible nearer the transition point II
chloride Of tin and ammonium be pres
ent.
In a record OF observations on the
microscopic life or Arctic regions. Dr.
Levin states that air from numerous
localities showed only a few moulds.
I'm water from the sea-surface bac-
terra were always found but IN very
small numbers-perhaps 1000 TO the
quart; while water from glaciers, snow,
streams, ice and melted snow also gave
evidence OF bacteria. but of very few
in water from the deep sea these organ
isms were more abundant han on the
surface. With the exception OF a SIM
gle sepcies Of baCterium found In one
bear and two seals. the intestinal con-
tents OF the white bear seal shark,
elder duck and other Arctic vertebrates
We're absolutely sterile; but bacteria
were almost invariably present IN the
lower marine animals These Obserya-
lions on germ-free intestiues are Of
especial importance and interest, as
they confirm the Idea OF pasteur and
few others that bacteria are not essen
tial to digestion
In the epidermis Of man and mann
mails Prof L. Ranyiar has recognized
seven distinct layers, which are de-
scribed 20 the Royal MlcrOscopical
society as stratum gcrminauyum,
flamentosum, granulosum intermedl-
um. lucidum, coreum and dlsjunctum,
I'm the order OF their development. The
limits are we'll deilned. each layer hav-
ing distinct physical characters and
chemical reactions These layers are
not formed by special elements how
ever. and a cell originating In stratum
germinatlvum becomes changed and
passes into stratum hlamentosum, and
so on through the series.
Experiments nave beenmade by Prof.
Mosso at Geneva 20 test the food value
Of sugar In cases OF eXhausuOns IRON
hunger His results confirm the theory
that sugar is assimulated by the eX-
hausted system more rapidly than
bread. and showed a rapid rise In tenn
perature within ten or fifteen minutes
after a small quantity Of sugar was
eaten by a long-fasting animal, the
effect reaching q maximum In one TO
two hours Sugar restored life 20 dogs
suffering from loss Of vital heat when
albumin could not save them.
The mixing Of solid metals Is one OF
the maryels Of modern physics. AFTER