Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-05-14
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A recently invented ~life-saving rah
for use on Paris lakes frequented BY
skaters is supported by small balloons,
so it will not sink should the ice break,
The second largest masonry arch in
the world, recently completed for an
Australian railroad, Is 27S feet, &
inches long and has a rise Of IS feet.
In training its cavalry recruits. the
German army is making use of a ma
chine, driven by electricity, in which
all the movements of horses are Simu-
lated.
A New York electric light company
is using a rotary pump, mounted on
the real Of an automobile and driven
by its hywheel, to pump III flooded
manholes.
During a severe storm at Jackets
town. n. j., lightning struck the street
lighting system passing through thirty
three tungsten lamps, without burning
them out.
For some explained reason GO-inch
~searchlights have proved unsatiSfac.
tory in the navy. and shey have been
abandoned in favor Of .the 30 and So
inch ones.
One of the most interesting and dis.
puted questions in American archie
!. ology is that Of the origin and age Of
Fort Ancient, in Warren County. Ohio.
The State Of Ohio has recently pur-
chased this site, which is to be turned
into n r,,h1;e ,,~1- W. r.
Moorehead believes that Fort Ancient
is Q or 900 years ole. He regards
the more modern articles found in a
grave in it's vicinity as later intrusions.
He does not, however, regard the pues.
ton OF the age Of this most interesting
structure as yet settled, and says that
many years of study am exploration
will be required to clear I'D the inys.
terry.
A striking indication of the great
stimulus which the cultivation of rub
Der plants has received within a few
years is given by the latest report Of
the director of agriculture hr the Fed
Grated Malay States. In 1897 there
were 345 acres Of rubber plants under
cultivation there. In 1900 the area
had increased to 1868 acres: in 1905
to 1898 acres, and in 1907 to 126. 49,
acres. The fall Of the price Of rubber
IN 1907 did not interrupt the ,dustry, I
but simply led to improved methods
OF production. Even at the lowest
the cost Of production, is said to be
more than 100 per cent. The greatest
enemies Of the rubber plants are root
fungus and the termites.
Prof. Vernon L. Kellogg describes, :
In Science, the remarkable skull found
several months ago in some exc<va-
lions made near Chapelle-aux-Sa, les, 4
in France. and exhibited in Dece ,ber
by Prot. Edmond Perrier to the ',aris
Academy of Sciences. The strain in
which the skull was buried are of the
P%leistocene age. The skull is describ-
ed as that of "a mar Of extremely low
type, an ape nan, Or perhaps of q
man p Of greater craniaI capacity
than any at present known" Professor
Perrier is disposed, on the whole, to
regard it as a human skull. It has q 4
marked goriIla-like look, but the brain
cavity Is very much larger than that
Of the gorilla or Of any other existing
a~nthropoid. The limb bones-for parts
of the skeleton were also fOund-are
curved, and present a conformation in. I
dicating that the creature walked
more, often on all tours than erect
1.-The bones,'' says Professor kellogg.
''seem to be fairly intermediate be
tween those of a man and those d
the present-day anthropoids."