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The Golden State Scientist. 



The Golden State Scientist. 



A_Monthly Magazine devoted to Natural His- 

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GODDESS OF NATURAL HISTORY. 



In the national museum at Washington is a 

 w^ell preserved fragment of a mo.saic from the 

 ruined temple of Astarte at Carthage. This 

 goddess may perhaps be called the patron deity 

 of museums since, one of the earliest, possibly 

 the earhest, of reference to the preservation of 

 specimens of natural history is connected with 

 her name, and with a still more ancient temple 

 dedicated to her. When Ilanno the Carthagi- 

 nian sailed down the coast of Africa somewhere 

 about 500 before Christ, he discovered and 

 killed certain large apes, supposed to have been 

 Gorillas. According to the records of his voy- 

 age these were flayed, the skins brought back 

 to Carthage, and there deposited in the temple 

 of Astarte. Here they remained for some 3 50 

 years, or until the city was captured by the 

 Romans. Evidently the old Carthaginian tax- 

 idermists must have used an excellent article of 

 arsenical soap. — Natural Science Bulletin. 



SILVER SWARD. 

 This strange plant is found but in one place 

 in the world, and that is in the Plawaiian or 

 Sandwich Islands, near the Tropic of Cancer 

 in the Pacific Ocean. It looks like a blade of 

 grass, but is covered with a kind of down of a 

 beautiful silvery Vv'hite. Plence the name. It 

 grows wherever it can find soil. A great many 

 of these blades grow on a head resembling a 

 cabbage. The wild goats which inhabit the 

 mountainous districts obtain their scanty exist- 

 ence upon it and only upon the sides of the 

 precipices and out of the reach of these crea- 

 tures can it be found. It is therefore a rare 

 plant, even in its native country, as it is a very 

 dangerous undertaking to try to procure it. It 

 grows on the volcanoes and in fact in any crev- 



j ice where the rich volcanic soil accumulates. — 



j Naturalists Journal. 



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The Indian farmers on Pyramid Lake, Nev., 



thresh their wheat by hand and winnow it in 

 baskets just as the Egyptians did three thous- 

 and years ago. 



