Show A V k w PORT it I clergyman ach who was taxed on leaves an estate worth they all do it religion has less effect efret on a mans veracity when the assessor comes around than at any oilier time I A IN Iq EUROPEAN remains sir II 11 W V jackson has found evidence ahat that the man of prehistoric days was afflicted by toothache abscess of the jaw rheumatic ulceration and many other diseases not materially diffie different rent from those which attack modern modem humanity HUMAN LANGU LANGUAGES AGnS says ays mons julien appear to have bay grown like trees in a wood which in tho the first stage are ire as numerous as possible but are soon reduced to a few individuals of which a very small number attain their full term of life numerous as were at first the local manifestations of human buman being beings the primordial languages were as innumerable I IN T 1868 christab Chri stat and i kiener showed that organs organ iams isms existed in cases of glanders to prove them t to be the cause of the disease however it was necessary to produce glanders by means of the organisms when cultivated outside the animal body such demonstration has just been furnished by bouchard capitan Ga and charrin who havo inoculated rabbits with the cultivated organisms and caused genuine glanders I 11 THAT tun tur keeping of plants in an ill ventilated roo rooms ns may cause infections even in regions regions is pointed out by prof crudelli of rome prof eichwald of st asburg reports itt chata at 11 a lady attacked by true intermittent 81 mit tent fever was quickly cured when her ber plants were were removed from the room in which she was living it is stated that the unwholesome influence is mw not exerted ly the plants themselves but ut b by T earth in which they are grown as many insects are estimated coexist to exist as thre arc are clea cles of all other living creatures together four hundred and fiat fifty y bejes species pejes t are e festered fostered by the oak tree alone and nd two hundred by the pine ha humboldt i in 1849 estimated that bet between and species were preserved in collections and it is is now supposed that the number may be something like with how large apart of natures ds production ioa in thia this one field can any single individual hope to become familiar THE LOCALITY of one original ill fc jr home of the potato is settled by mr ir toha czi G commons Lom mons discovery last reason M of this plant in the mountains of arizona one variety waa was found near the summit of a peak feet hi high gh from the wild plants mr lemmon obtained edmo seeds with several quarts of small tubers and these will be distributed among careful experimenters for cultivation it ii u is hoped bop ed that the result will be a new and vigorous race of potatoes to take the tile place of the degenerated varieties now grown t MB A H K KEANE aar has described i krco a seven year old female child now at the london royal aquara urn who n ho ia is sensationally claimed by her exhibitor to be the long sought douht a id missing link lin IC between man and the higher apes arao is fairly intelligent I tell igent and her short stay among civilized people has already caused her to dislike hr her old savage associates aint es she has several physical po cullari ties tho the chief of which arc are a forehead covered with thick black hair bair down to the bushy eyebrows a growth of hair about a quarter of an inch lone long over her body prehensile feet and remarkably flexible hands mr beave finds however the point of chief interest to bo be kraos history which seems to indicate the existence of a hairy race of people in in a part of india now chiefly occupied by almost hairless afo mongoloid peoples arao and her parents a r e ants also hairy h all r people pe ople were found lound last year by y mr carl bock BO F and another hairy family which came from the same region is said to have bay been known |