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Scientific.

FABT DISAPPEARING. —Two races of men are dying- out, the Laplanders, who number 30,000, and the Maoris of New Zealand, reduced from 100,000 to 30.000 since the days of Captain Cook, and likely to be extinct by the year 2000. -.Exchange.

CURARK IS A STAYER. — Some Indian arrow-heads were lately shown at the Societe d'Anthropologie which wore poisoned with curare orer a century ago, bat still retained their deadly power. Small animals scratched with them died in half-an-hour. MffSIO BY ELECTRICITY, — By&ud by electrioity will do ererything for us except take us up to heaven. A German electrician has aucceedf d in producing munical tones from metal plates by electrifying the latter intermittently. So, presently, we ghajl have electric music as well as eleotrio lighting. Mr Seminolce, the »cientist in question, supports the plates od an ebonite funnel, and connects the terminal of an inductive machine to' oppogifa ei4oB of tl\epla.tea by wvee. ?hei

path of the current is interrupted po that sparks attiko ucro.ss. The pLtos then begin to sound. Thus we havo the oommeaoement and basis of something better, for if wo can produce one set of sounds from electrical action we can produce as many as we like. To arrange them is not a difficult matter. Before long we shall have electric music-boxen, depend ujgon It. A HUMAN CHBIOSITV. Nk\v York, February 6th. — In the parlour of the Ashland House yesterday, Little Krao, who has been christened by scientists in Europe as " Darwin's missing link," held her Hrst reception in this city, his visitors being principally phym'oiaus and newspaper men. Krao is a member of the race kuown as the *' Tree Dwellers of Laos," and was captured three years ago. She was five years old at the time. She lias learned to talk .English and German fairly well. The most peculiar feature of Krao is the luxuriant growth of black, glossy hair, winch falls in long tresses from her head and covers her body almost completely wiih a hairy envelope about one inch iv thickness. Only on the palms of her hands and feet is the greyishyellow skin uncovered. These have all the peculiarities of the same members of a well-developed ape. Th»< fingers arc so flexible they can bo bent backwards so that the end* rest on the buck of the hand without causing pain, and can be twisted in every direction like the feet of a monkey. The nose of this singular specimen is devoid of cartilages, as also the ears, which are situated further back in the head than in the higher rnce. She is the only member of the Treo Dwellora ever brought into this country. A 810 CANAL. The project of couuooting tbe waters of the Baltic, the Elbe aud the German Ocean has been under the consideration of the Prussian Government since 1865. The scheme of a ship cinal was formerly opposed by Count Yon Moltke, on the ground that it would be better to invest the immense amount of money required by such au' enterprise in building up the Imperial Navy. Now that this work has been completed, and a powerful fleet of ironclads stands ready to plough the waters of the new canal as soon as it can be opened, tho Field Marshal of the Empire has changed his view*, and declared himself in favour of the work. At a recent meeting of the Bundesrath a bill for its construction was unaniiii-iu-ly approved. It is held by the advocates of the canal that the defeuce of tho German coaat must always rouiaiu a divided task bo long as no waterway connects tho Baltic with the Qermuu Ooean, and Geiratn war vessels are forced to puss from one sea to tho other by a route which exp>-es them to the danger of filling into the enemy's hands. The estimated ooit of the woik i- put at 156, 000,000 marks, or about Jt6,240,000. It. will bo strongly fortified, and besides its railiUry value will be of much importance to commerce.

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Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2155, 1 May 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)

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Scientific. Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2155, 1 May 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)

Scientific. Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2155, 1 May 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)

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