Show jen SCIENTIFIC MISCEllANY I I A sample ot of Egyptian porcelain from Memphis hl has been found by L Ie Chale Chate Qu ler lice to be Quit quite different tron from Chinese I porcelain t It appear that the I ancient Egyptians understood the tho art n ot of tre true porcelain 71 rho Eln Egyptian l tian n porcelain could le be duplicated by a mixture Qt 60 10 lat ot of the fine sand 40 ot of blue la nl 5 of 01 white cI cIA clay the A kind of combination telescope ha has been worked out by a Fench French for tor studying live and their habits The he new up ap Ta is called the I I and I is really n a email telescope having ti an objective formed ot of two achromatic leases which can be moved nerr nearer to 10 i or separated by sliding the tubs tubes For the purpose intended this the magnIfying power oer necessary Is II only 10 tolG to 15 diameters dIameters Besides servIng for tor watching Insects moving on the ground I Ith th instrument It J Is stated I Is admirably I Ia a ably ly adapted for use a as a I The slight In this the bod body heat hent d ot of animals een In the tho greatest ot of atmospheric temperature Is isane ane Ot of the wonders wanders of physiology M fJ Francois tn finis that the aver average from this is 18 age ace temp rarely ore than two to or three deres degrees iii aI though ther there ar are dal dall changes of slight seasonal vans aria ariae e and a sl slight h rise rhe after eating and ond w e rk of any kInd kind Ar Age makes much kii th than Is usually supposed u poad f Yet while the aVerage central tempera turo Is so o constant there thero may be lag Ing local variations anti the tho skIn tern tem sometimes differs four to twelve delrea degrees tn In a few rew hOUT hours D Disease lle as temperature Is wel well known greaty greatly affects bodily The deafness ot of locomotive engineers and firemen hI has leen been lok looked upon IS as an eret effect of 01 the whistle Mr George Tre Trebel Trebel bel points out lint thal this cannot le be so Ind and finds I that the engineers ar are deaf In the rIght ear and the firemen In the lef left leading him to suggest that the tho ouse cause Is the tho impact of 01 the Ind on the tho eardrum IS us the m men n lean lenn from the eat The sound of at the whistle II is scarcely noticeable while the men Oi ota the yard ar engines are not affected A strong dislike to time odor of at pep hn has been discovered In mIce mice Colon Cotton soaked In 01 oil caused them to go away WI for tor n a considerable they time disappeared and after a completely second application To double the he capacity ot of a 8 power plant without Increasing the Chic size of f tM th I I boilers or Dr the consumption of fuel is II a rather startling preposItIon at the present diY day This s result ts I whAt Prof JOSH Jesse of the Schol School ot of Berlin believes h lie eln can achIeve athle through a a device delce that UI U ten years orl Igo ago the Idea beIng to rn run a second engine driven b by sulphurous acid or other liquid ot of ote very e 10 low boiling p pain wih wIth the hel heat 5 5 S 0 of th the exhaust l steam lem from the frt first engine In lh the new auxiliary engine the acid is made to ps pass through I a complete cycle of vaporIzation and ld condensation For or horse horsepower power hour the tho normAl steam ton tion of the steam engine working alone was 19 pounds and this was reduce reduced to 1 12 pounds when both machines corked together while I It Is believed that a reduction to about pounds pound 11 is on large luge engines Every promising substitute for tor rub beI her And guta gutta percha I is beIng eagerly Investigated D a new artificial rubber hatch d described by Mr lr Walter F nek Is II n a mix mixture lure Ct of nitrated In InI un I seed or on castor al oil wih with the elastic and nd other properties being subject to gret great Variation arilton by oler altera tons In the proportions ot of the two to CO coo The pou product t can be mould d dunder ulder under heat an aDd prue pressure or apple lii In solution the solvent being then than ale hR has sto stood the test tell of e cx p ur to the English climate beter better thal thou rubber Il It is superior t to vulcanIzed rubber In 11 Its freedom from Iclon action on copper and while lie Insulating I I proper properties tI ties ha have no been tul fully studied J IL en enI can I b be recommended already for tor a 0 glat great iet ot of PUr purposes such sueh I as belting waterproof cloth hose and tUb leg Ins llor floor paint ete etc In children a are found ly by Dr E Graham Lite LIttle a London clan to ice be less leu e on digestive disturbances tha than Is II generally sup POI The he 10 laBI largely due to 10 duo dens dere that pruce produce moderate but bul pro prolonged prolonged longed difficulty of at breathing and are common In rheumatic chIldren n and ns as sedated with rickets enlarged tensIle errors ot of and tapeworms Fr Per upon capon or celluloid varnish a product ot of tany many uses a German Germon ex gets gels the best results by dissolving two parts of colorless bId loid waste In twenty parts part o of acetone solution requiring standing several 1 days In a a cloe closed vessel and adding pat parts of at amyl acetate acetate Tho Th varnish Is II clarified b by long seWIng settling ii D the newlY po patented process of 01 Her Herr F W I II ot of Berlin animal or vegetable substances are hy by exhausting the air from th the do cle containing them then impregnating wih with an inert na as hydro hydrogen fen gen nitrogen n or carbonic un tiny desired and finally sealing up hermetically In suitable repta receptacles LiquIds be treated ae well as so Id The process is expected to become Industrially important or It is adapted to every kind of perishable material In eluding meats ekins vegetables flow rc cream milk whey etc The liquids are restored to their original condition by heating or boilIng In a recent audacious plan for a cen pleasure railway it are posed to have the passengers travel head downward over a of the course It Is now asserted by Mr C 11 Riley a Dublin man thAt such a toad was actually built and operated in I v about forty years ago It was of IS a guage and the single car holding one person was drawn up an inclined plane to the tot of a bight tower by a windlass lien was allowed to run down an incline on the opposite side then round a vertical boa of large diameter then over a low tower and a circle t the starting point The trip was not popular Wood pulp and sawdust In according to a method just patented by Mr E M Fox of Westminster by placing in a belier containing a hot solution of eul phate and phosphate of ammonia and provided with a stirring and end a temperature The material is afterward to tree it from moisture This treated pulp may 15 used for paper or other purposes and the sawdust for pack lag goods deadening walls or jacke Ling The Injury to coil from floodIng by it high tIde is variously estimated to last for five to twenty years A late In in Easer England showed that the soil was left with two per cent of times th normal amount but that the damage was probably due mostly to the complete destruction o earthworms A legend Is that more than six centuries ago on June 25 1299 St Prokopy caused a threatened storm to be diverted from the city of to desert miles away At this place were left a lot lotof of stones whIch did great damage to vegetation and have been to be meteorites but these over a distance of four now been shown by hi of the institute of St Petersburg to be ordinary gran ftc and sandstone This leads 31 to declare that at atter ter all the tradition may have been vell founded Ills own investigations have proven It to be quite possible for a violent hurricane to transport stones a long distance or orthe the stones ma have beep already on the spot and uncovered by the storm The cold of lIquId air has been proven b A and L L to retard the action of light on a tire plate making it appear that photo photographIc graphIc action is a rather than ft physical effect The retarding is on onI I temporary however the plate re recovering covering Its sensitiveness on removal from the cold and Images already ha pressed are In no way affected The IllumInatIng power of gas or oil is duo to the incandescence of particles of carbon This carbon Is usually present in such small percent percentage age that the combustible material has been found capable of raising a much larger to incandescence and this baa made the use ot a great improvement in the case of gas Is or lest Germany attempts more have been made with the niaO and petroleum butS e era Id a flow claims to have made a advance upon this idea by alcohol the hydrocarbons In light gIving ft ver brilliant 1 both with anti without a mantle probe is contended that lila solves the hem of a brilliant portable light I I a only too true that our finest birds being exterminated with a the scarcely less than that with which buffalo was hurried opt of some years ago From the reportS h from 36 States by Mr W Ci It appears that the been reduced 45 P the country have cent within fifteen years and that loss reaches 77 per cent In Florida 75 cent In Connecticut Indian O Ogon tory and Montana North gon and California have their average of birds while herS been an increase in Nansal Washington and Utah The weste part of the State of Washington ft anomaly the beauty r b fi ln to have become filled with as a result of clearing awaY timber The destructive agencies many There is great wanton or orthe by hunters and boys much sar ani the adornment of list UI ot ices froni the abuse collecting |