The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1901-12-07

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4 Shrubs growing Ia poor soil seldom
produce bright. high-cosored flowers.
| Iron filings and scales collected about
a blacksnith's anvil have tendency
to intensity the color Of many plants,
II dug into the soil about their roots.
/ Waves carefully measured during
q heavy storm on the New Brunswick
coast recently proved to be forty-five
feet high from bottom Of trough to
crest. They were from 500 to 700 feet
long and came at intervals OF thirteen
to seventeen seconds.
The Imperial Academy Of st. Peters.
burg has sent an expedition to Kol.
ymsk in Siberia to recover the re-
mains Of mammoth which have been
found there in perfect preservation.
The skin, hair and flesh are entirely
intact and the stomach contains the
matter Of the last meal of the beast.
Another Indication Of the link that
existed between the animals Of the
Old World and the New in former
ages has been discovered in the bones
of goat-antelope the foot Of Pixies
Peak. This animal was unlike any
not inhabiting this country. but bore 4
strong resemblance to the antelope of
the Himalayan region in Asia. The
bones of slender limbed species of
horse. now extinct. were found at the
same place.
It has been found that at depth OF
about 200 fathoms the light Of the I'M
clouded sun is reduced to an equality
with the starlight of clear night at
the surface. At greater depths the
sunlight is wholly extinguished. and
vet there Is light in the abysses. and
even at the bottom. and color. too. Til,
light is given or By fixed forms of
marine life. as well as by those that
swim, and is of phosphorescent ma
ture. DIR. Alexander Agassiz says
that the colors Of deep-sea animals are
both brilliant and varied. and that
there is considerable illumination pro-
duced by abyssal fishes moyins
through forests OF phosphorescent sea-
pens and fan and red corals.
The occurrence Of rains in which
small foreign objects. such as Ash.
frogs and even debris of DESTROYED
houses, ETC., Is accredited in a recent
number Of the Monthly Weather Re
view. 1t is very rare that these OBJ
Iects can be traced to their source. but
there are authentic cases Of pieces of |
paper and other similar light objects
being carried to points twenty or fifty
miles distant from their starting point. |
An instance Is mentioned by one of |
the official observers Of where hun
dreds Of little fish (cat perch. trout. |
etc.) were found in the pools between
the cotton rows in field at Tiller's |
Ferry, South Carolina. after heavy /
local rain.
Painless dentistry by the aid OF the
electric current, while not enthusiastic
cally advocated. is. nevertheless, a
practicability. The principle is to pro-
duce local anaesthesia by meanS of |
high frequency currents Of great in
tensity. DR.. D'Arsonval. the French
savant who Is so radically opposed to
electrocutions. has worked out the de-
tails Of the apparatus used. It is re-
ported that the extraction Of incisors
and canine teeth can be made almost
but molars have given more
trouble. The intensity employed is
about one-tenth Of an ampere. and the
time Of application about i've minutes.
No disagreeable sensations are pro-
duced when the current IL turned en-
and on. Further experiments in this
direction are under way. Electric NAL
let's and engines are now q part OF
every dentists equipment. 90 that the /
application Of electricity for producing L
ocal anaesthesia would doubtless be
welcomed BY the profession.