| Show SCIENCE AND INBUSTEItV tieco of Common Salt Among the many uses of common fait may b mentioned two which admit of fruiuent application Salt put in s1I water which surrounds the ordinary glue lot coupes n hotter ri to be obtained than where simple water Is u ed Salt in the water where inaoii work is being done in cold I weather prevents dUIntegintiun by J frost SnowJfeltlng Machine A near olc for getting rid of snow in the treels or on the hot car tracks has ivcn aiented Ksj > erinicnU with it show that it can melt a ton of ice In five minutes or a ton of snow in four minutes at a cost of about four cents for the melting of every twohorse load The machine Iran somewhat the general appearance appear-ance of n fireengineJ Silk from Wood PuljuOneof the most reniarkaiilc of textile miteriis of recent introduction I the silk made from wood pulp which was exhibited at the Paris Kxpositioii r The fibre I produced from a nitrated nitrat-ed cellulose obtained from wood r pulp by 1 secret proce > s This wo nll ficial sIlk is said 1 to b perfectly uni form in thickness prlth II s and l ffcctly > round in section I can b dveil any color and Interwoven with cocoon silk in manufactured goods giving strength and brilliancy to the lalrlc Decayed Teeth as Promoters of r Tubercular Disease Gicat stress I has lately lawn l laid by the best medical authorities on the Importance Import-ance of looking well to the teeth of patients having 1 tubercular ten dency and seeing that they keep kel their mouths tu a thoroughly heal I thy condition The fact lias been I established that diseased l roots and teeth have a great deal to do nnl starting tubercular trouble in the lymphatic glands of ixople predis josed t this disenM Tubercle bacilli gaining admission to drains through the diseased teeth speedily Infect the structures in the neigh borhood nil EtuJ necore Sleeping Dr W WnhLum 11 n note on the suljed of Fln Before SleepIng In tlro SIllng tiI letl Jtcortl says reNo hirers Is I really no cxrtre for tire old pnj dices ansi we are only oh sllp well without first eating especially If hungry by long training against nature For is I not a fact that the stomach requires more blcod during the perIod of digestion and urn more natural then tItan that the blood nuijt Lv drawn from the brain i as it 1 the mot vascular organ of otn the l body and during sleep less blood is required in lgt train Hence digftion should aid sleep and sleep aid digestion I tlp Halpine Torpedo Boot IJtut Hah Jiie has set t work to overcome the defects of the existing tvic of ton do loaf I tlo 01 lie argued that I subaqueous torpedo which would delirer an explosive dare t t point bncath the keel of a vessel I was needed the bllJlnJ rrn m that after leaving the explosive charge I would move backward and away from the joint of explosion aul Following on this plan he has designed de-signed a torpedo boat which ruler loro ont w1lh depositing an explosive carrying the case in close proximity to the vessel to he destroyed would be automatlcalry backed to 1 iwsition llon by of safety electricity This i effectively done The Ancient Art of ICmbalralng In view of modern progress in em balming dedication J1rln el otr methods of preserving tire dead fir anindeflniletime I Ij I InteresUn to note tliat It has Ken tlmated thnac tliat more than JODOOOOOO human mummies were made in Egypt from 1t beginning of Uie art ot embalm ing until Its discontinuance lu the seventh century There were three erades of rdl embalming For preserv ing hw relatives in the most ct ap Ironed style the Egyptian had to tan ht t pay tl I 2j In the second grado the operatIon cst but S 175 the Uiird tlln method was E cheap as to IK con tiucred within I the rood of tIre I cot citizen and involved tire pickl poor ing of the body for some days and then a boiling in bitumen These mummies are devoid of hair and eyebrows and are black heavy dry and T dr very hard t break |
