Show Freaks and Odd Oddities i ties In ln Science News N ran The sl skeleton eleton of ot a little child found In a cave U 4 In Palestine by the American School of Prehistoric Prehistoric tone Research has S been examined by the noted British archeologist Sir Arthur Keith of LanIon Lon Lon- lon Jon who pronounces It to be the skeleton of a I Neanderthal child two and a half years old The ge of Neanderthal man Is variously estimated by dentists more conservative estimates giving this thi ype of human being an antiquity o of years ears vi 1 Apples come through cold storage safely withA without with with- A out harm to their precious vitamin C studies have just shown Frozen apples have been kept for four months without losing losIn an appreciable appreciable ap ap- ap- ap amount of this vitamin The vitamin is not b by any means evenly distributed through the fruit There Is far more vitamin C near the skin than in the center and the peel actually contains six ix times more vitamin than the flesh near the theore ore an Experiments at the bureau of or standards show U that cornstalks may be used to make a substitute substitute substitute tute for lumber the annual report shows Subjecting Subjecting Subjecting Sub Sub- a mat of ot the fibers to heavy pressure gives a product which Is hard dense and strong and equipment for production of this arti artificial lumber Is being designed Insulating wall vaU board resistant to fire and water Is already alread manufactured commercially from cornstalks 71 H I Wheat straw is under test as a possible source U of paper though results have not yet been entirely en- en satisfactory S S I a Sugars which may find use in medical laboratories laboratories labora labora- U tories have been prepared from cottonseed hull null bran |