| Show scientific miscellany artificial SKULL SHAPING astonishing success has attended the efforts of dr eminent of paris to give intelligence to a little idiot girl though four years old the child could neither walk nor stand and never smiled nor took notice of anything the doctor concluded that the abnormal narrowness of the head obstructed ted the growth of the brain and in may last he made an incision in the center of the saull and cut a piece of the bone from the left side the result was marvelous within than a month the child could walk and she has become quite bright playing smiling and taking notice of everything around her PAIN JOY A german anatomist has called the attention of his class to certain hysterical women who are affected a pain joy not only pain from surgical mutilation ti but having a morbid desire to bear witheat an aesthetics operations which should prove very painful A young oman was introduced who had seriously injured her lower aw during a paroxysm of hysteria but who had insisted boon having the necessary removal of the jaw and ligature of t ato arteries performed without an agaes aud subsequently declared that the operations had given her great pleasure anc MOON PROBLEM from tables made by the eliminating local disturbances dr G meyer believes he has accomplished what other investigators imaye to do without success shown in influence of the moon on the weather the height ot alie barometer in mon hs of september to january is lowered at the time of full moon and raised during the no effect can be traced for other months COLD A cold wave is defined by prof T russell as a fall of temper 1 in twenty four hours of 20 degrees s over an area of square miles the temperature in some part of this area descending to sa degrees between 1880 and 1890 no less than cold waves were recorded in the united states jn the great cold wave of jan the fall of 20 degrees was extended over an area of square miles and the fall of 10 degrees included aquasie miles in six colu waves of the ten years the area of the fall 20 degrees was more than a million square miles cold waves follow a day after an area of low pressure or occur to the southeast of an area of high pressure reaching their greatest erea test extend when both conditions are uree NEST FOR GERMS the impurities that collect under fingernails finger nails have been investigated in the bacteriological laboratories of vienna the matter obtained in 78 examinations waa placed in culture solutions and gave 36 kinds of micro cocci 18 of bacilli and S of sarc inae cleanliness of the nails is especially necessary lor all who come near a wound and for those who live in a neighborhood where an epidemic prevails A remarkable preservation A belgian found that the gheen tar left after extracting the oil from the white bark of the birch will effectually preserve even the mosi delicato texture from decay it yields neither acid no alkaloid is remarkably fluid in alcoholic solution and when once dried resists even the action of alcohol A NEW IDEA A recent contract provides far street in paris on a novel plan power is distributed by the compressed air system to a great number of small cotora each of which supplies electricity for a small number christmas presents for the english market fore quarters of beef at 4 and 4 cents per pound at B birkins english meat market BOSHARD still leads the grocery trade of provo call and fee lor yourselves I 1 fresh pork sandage always on ban at Bo shards |
