The Red Cloud chief., 1901-03-29

fruit in the United States. for, whiie
II has been grown since the time OF
the early mission fathers In California,
Il Ia only within the past twenty years
that IL has become of commercial I'm
portance.
A new tea company, Influenced by
DR.. Shepard's success. has just bought
6OOO acres Of land In Colleton County,
3. c., intending to raise tea for the
market. The company paid $4,000
for the land, and will plant but 100
acres this season, as II Ia now rather
late to begin the preparation OF the
ground. Next year over 5000 acres
will be planted. and the output Is ex-
pected to exceed 100000 pounds.
Near Rio Grnnde City. Texas, an Inn
mense deposit Of an unknown gaseous
substance has been discovered. Pieces
Of It ignite quickly and give out
strong flame, which lasts for a re-
markably long period. 1t is said by
scientists that the substance Is either
an unknown mineral or ordinary clay
highly charged with natural gas. In
either case the value Of the deposit as
fuel is immense. as 1t covers many
thousands of acres, and Is of immense
depth. .~esa ~ 4. 7-s.- r---''
The United States Fish Commission
has presented to the Academy OF Nat
ural Sciences n collection of fish from
Porto Rico which contains examples Of
new genera and species recently made
known to science by Drs. Jordan and
Evermann I'm their monumental vol
ume on the "Flshes of North Ameri-
ca" This work comprises over $4,000
pages and nearly 400 plates. BY its
compilation the authors have certain
ly laid archaeological science under a
deep debt of gratitude.
Banana -four meal is prepared by
cutting the fruit into suitable pieces.
drying and grinding. 1t IL said to have
been used by native inhabitants Of
tropical countries since early times.
dried banana Is a more nutritious food
than the fresh. 1t contains less protein
than wheat -four or rice, its nutritive
value resting almost wholly in Its nj
trogenous elements. Banana -four can
be used In combination with milk, su-
gar, etc. in the preparation of custards,
cakes and similar articles.
A botanist I'm Germany has been ex-
amining the flowers of Europe with :.
view to discovering what proportion of
them give out " pleasant OdOr, and
what effect color has on this point. He
found that only 42O out of 1900 kinds
Of flowers have pleasant odOr, nearly
all the others being offensive. The
| sweetest are those with white Oh
cream. .colored petals and the next
| sweetest. In order, are the yellow, the
red, the blue. and last. the violet. Out
Of more than 300 varieties of the violet
only thirteen were found to be sweet
At the Yale observatory an interest
ing use has been found for the bicycle
wheel. By fitting such wheel will
u series of Opaque screens placed al
regular intervals and then rotating 1t
with the aid Of small motor, at the
rate Of from thirty to fifty turns in &
minute in front of the cameras uset
to photograph meteOrs, DR.. Elkin ha'
succeeded in measuring the velocity o
| fhn nntonrs' Hfoht Tho nrip.inla do
pends upon the interruptions produced
by the screens In the trails of ligh
made upon the Photographic plates b!
the flying meteOrs. The velocity o
the wheel Is known mt every instant b.
means of chronographic record ant
the length of the interruptions indi
Gates the speed of the meteors.