Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-05-14
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A recently invented life-saving raft
for use on Paris lakes fr"cnucntcd 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, G
inches long and has a rise OF IS feet.
In training its cavalry recruits, the
German army is making use of a IA
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 rear Of an automobile and driven,
by its fywheel, to pump out flooded
manhOlcs.
During n severe storm at I~lacketts-
town. y. j., lightning struck the street,
lighting system passing through thirty
three tungsten lamps, without burning
them out.
For some explained reason GO-inclr
S~earChlightS have proved unSntiSflc-
tory in the navy, and Whey have bo0W
abandoned in favor Of he 30 and 81
inch ones
One of the most interesting and dis
putcd questions in American archie
ology is that of the origin and age Of
Fort Ancient, in Warren %i'ounty. Ohio.
The State Of Ohio has recently pur-
chased this site, which IS to be turned
Into a public park. Ny, Warren X.
Moorehead believes that FOrt Ancient
is 800 or 900 years Old lie regards
the more modern articles found in a
grave in its vicinity as later intrusiOns-
He does not, however. regard the Quns-
ton of the age of this most interesting
structure as yet settled. and says that
many years Of study an exploration
will be required to clear up tho mys-
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 lateet report OF
the director of agriculture .<a. the Fed
Grated Malay States. In 1897 there
were 345 acres of rubber plants under
cultivation there. In 1900 the area
had increased TO 100: acres: in ,l90I
to 1855 acres, and in 1907 to 12G,23J
acres. The fall of the price rf rubber
IN 1907 did not interrupt the ;dustryS
but simply led to improved methods
Of production. Even at the lowest
prices, the profit Of the farmers. over
the cost Of production. is said to- be
rrore han 100 per cen 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 6 in some eXcava-
tons made near Chapelle-aux-Saintes,
in France, and exhibited in December
by Prot. Edmond Perrier to the Paris
Academy Of Sciences. Tie strata in
which the skull was buried are Of the
Pleistocene age. The skull is desrrib-
ed as that Of "a man Of extremely low
type, an ape man, or perhaps Of a
man ape Of greater cranial capacity
than any at present KNOWN" Professor
Perrier is disposed, on the whole, to
regard 1t as a human skull. It has a
marked gorilla-like look. but the brain
cavity is very much larger than that
Of the gorilla or of any other existing
anthropoid. The limb boncs-for parts
of the skeleton were also fouEnd-are
curved. and present a conformation in
dicating that the creranre walked
more often on all tours han erect.
"The bones.' says Professor Kellogg.
"seem to be fairly intermediate be
tween those of a ma ard those OF
the present-day a~nthropoids;